Delightful task ! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot, To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, To breathe the enlivening spirit, and to fix The generous purpose in the glowing breast. The Works of Hannah More - Page 247by Hannah More - 1830Full view - About this book
| Madame de Staël (Anne-Louise-Germaine) - 1800 - 450 pages
...realon grows apace and calls For the Kind hand of an allîdnous care. Delightful tafk ! to rear tha tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot, To pour the frefh inftruction o'er the mind. To breathe th'enlivening fpirit and to fix The generous purpofe iu... | |
| 1800 - 452 pages
...devoid of affection for them, pleafures beyond expreffion will be derived from in Delightful talk ! to rear the tender thought ; To teach the young idea how to flioot, And pour the frefli inftrufiion o'er the mind. THOMSON. But you may fay, that, not having yourfelf... | |
| Apollo - 1800 - 224 pages
...Then infant reafon grows apace, and calls For the kind hand of an affiduous care. Delightful tafk ! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to lhoot, To pour the frefh inftruction o'er the mind, To breathe th' enlivening fpirit, and to fix The... | |
| Hannah More - 1800 - 96 pages
...A PASTORAL DRAMA FOR YOUNG LADIES. SEARCH AFTER HAPPINESS A PASTORAL DRAMA. THE TWELFTH EDITION. " To rear the tender thought, " To teach the young idea how to (hoot, " To pour riWfedh iuihui'hou o'er |4»»mind, " To breathe th'enliv'ning fpirit, and to fix... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 542 pages
...Then infant Rcafon grows apace, and calls For the kind hand of an alTiduous care. Delightful talk ! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to (hoot, 1 150 , To pour the frefh inttrutUon o*er the mind, To breathe th' cnliv'ning fpirit, and to... | |
| Madame de Staël (Anne-Louise-Germaine) - 1800 - 410 pages
...nous The infant reason grows apace and calls For the Kind hand of an assiduous care. Delightful task! to rear the tender thought , To teach the young idea how to shoot , To pour the fresh instruction o'cr the mind , To breathe th'enlivening spirit and to fix The generous purpose in the glowing breast.... | |
| William Jay - 1801 - 46 pages
...her infant daughter — to view from the window the manly exploits of her boy— " Delightful talk, to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to (hoot, 5 " To pour the frefh inftrudlion o'er the mind, " To breathe th'enlivening fpirit, and to fix... | |
| John Baillie - 1801 - 642 pages
...burtl forth with energy and luftre on the ftage of human affairs ' Or, as the poet Delightful tafk ; to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to (hoot, To pour the frefti inftnuftion o'er the mind, To breathe th* enlivening fpirit, and to fix The... | |
| 1850 - 376 pages
...which duties they have now entered ? W ould they be less capable of engaging in the " delightful task, to rear the tender thought — to teach the young idea how to shoot," &c. ? Would you imitate their success? Then follow their example. R. FISH. Г ~ — L . . ---... | |
| James Thomson - 1802 - 320 pages
...Then infant reason grows apace, and calls For the kind hand of an assiduous care. Delightful task ! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea...enliv'ning spirit, and to fix The gen'rous purpose in the glowing breast. Oh speak the joy! ye, whom the sudden tear Surprises often, while you look around,... | |
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