 | James Thomson - 1802 - 320 pages
...ev'ry day, Soft as it rolls along, shews some new charm, The father's lustre, and the mother's bloom. Then infant reason grows apace, and calls For the...shoot, To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, To breathe th' enliv'ning spirit, and to fix The gen'rous purpose in the glowing breast. Oh speak the... | |
 | James Thomson - 1802 - 344 pages
...every day, Soft as it rolls along, shews some new charm, The father's lustre, and the mother's bloom. Then infant reason grows apace, and calls For the...shoot, To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, To breathe th'enlivening spirit, and to fix The generous purpose in the glowing breast, Oh speak the joy!... | |
 | James Thomson - 1803 - 268 pages
...new charm , The father's lustre, and the mother's bloom. Then infant reason grows apace , and calU For the kind hand of an assiduous care. Delightful...shoot, To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind ; To breathe th' enlivening spirit, and to fix The generous purpose in the glowing breast. Oh speak the... | |
 | 1803 - 228 pages
...fruits : the sentiments become generous ; the carriage endearing ; and the life honorable and useful. Delightful task ! to rear the tender thought, To teach...shoot, To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind. To breathe th' enliv'ning spirit, and to fix The gen'rous purpose in the glowing breast. Posterity wisely... | |
 | Philip Doddridge - 1803 - 666 pages
...plantations, you are watering also yourselves^ ; and from these • Pror. iii. 17. f PsaL xix. 11. \ Delightful task ! To rear the tender thought, To teach...shoot, To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, — and plant The generous purpose in the glowing breast. THOMPSON'S SPUING, p. 57. § Pror. xi, 25.... | |
 | Philip Doddridge - 1803 - 676 pages
...Prov. iii. 17. f PsaL xix. 1 1. J Delightful task ! To rear the tender thought, To teach the younsi idea how to shoot, To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, and plant The generous purpose in the glowing breast. THOMPSON'S SPRING, p. 57. $ Prov. ». 25. holy... | |
 | James Thomson - 1803 - 330 pages
...Then infant reafon grows apace, and calls For the kind hand of an alfiduous care. Delightful tafk j to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to fhoot, To pour the frefh inftruction o'er the mind, To breathe th' enlivening fpirit, and to fix The... | |
 | Henry Hunter - 1803 - 286 pages
...Then infant reafon grows apace, and calls For the kind hand of an alfiduous care. Delightful taflc 1 to rear the tender thought. To teach the young idea how to (hoot, To peur the frelh inltruAion o'er the mind. To breathe th' enlivening fpirit, and to fix The... | |
 | James Thomson, John Aikin - 1804 - 232 pages
...day, Soft as it rolls along, shews some new charm, 114 The father's lustre, and the mother's bloom. Then infant Reason grows apace, and calls For the...the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot, 1150 To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, To breathe th' enlivening spirit, and to fix... | |
 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - 1804 - 692 pages
...it from ruin, he may yet mend the morals of a private citizen, and can at least engage in the more Delightful task ! to rear the tender thought, To teach...shoot, To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, And fix the generous purpose in the glowing breast. Indeed it will b« strange if the being, whom we... | |
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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. 
