 | E Tomkins - 1806 - 280 pages
...the mother's bloom. Then infant reason grows apace, and calls For the kind hand of au assiduous care. 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 th' enlivening spirit, and to fix The generous purpose in the... | |
 | English poetry - 1806 - 408 pages
...the mother's bloom. 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'er the mind, To breathe th' enlivening spirit, and to fix The generous purpose in the... | |
 | James Thomson - 1806 - 242 pages
...the mother's bloom. 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 how to shoot, 1150 To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, To breathe th' enlivening spirit, and to fix... | |
 | John Stephens (Methodist minister.) - Families - 1806 - 22 pages
...prompted by duty, drawn by afFeftion, trained by experience, to affiil him in the f * Delightful taík ! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to (hoot, To pour the frefh inftruftion o'er the mind, To breathe the enlivening fpirit, and to fix The... | |
 | Regina Maria Roche - 1807 - 306 pages
...repeated to Harriet. No occupation could be more congenial to the romantic imagination of the, latter. " Delightful task, to rear the tender thought ; To teach the young idea how to shoot !" In one minute, fifty systems of education crossed her mind; and she would have essayed at... | |
 | Robert Robinson - 1807 - 376 pages
...to seta young gentleman a thinking for himself, and to give a right turn to a habit of reasoning ; to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot. In all this he followed NATURE, and so he did when he praised Homer for calling Agamemnon THE... | |
 | James Thomson, Thomas Park - 1808 - 444 pages
...the mother's bloom. 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 how to shoot, To pour the fresh instnietion o'er the mind, To breathe the' enlivening spirit, and to fix The generous purpose in the... | |
 | Cabinet - 1808 - 524 pages
...indulgent heaven. 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 how to shoot, To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, To breathe th' enlivening spirit, and to fix The generous purpose in the... | |
 | William Enfield - Elocution - 1808 - 434 pages
...the mother's bloom. Then infant reason grows apace, and call 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'er the mind, To breathe th' enlivening spirit, and to fix The generous purpose in the... | |
 | William Mackenzie - Boarding schools - 1808 - 206 pages
...LIBRARY THE GIFT OF EDWARD PERCIVAL MERRITT OF BOSTON Class of 1882 fub. ACADEMY; OR PICTURE OF YOUTH. Delightful task ! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot, To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mlndj To breathe th' enlivening spirit, and to fix The generous purpose in the... | |
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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. 
