 | Henry Hunter - Bible - 1818 - 376 pages
...shews some new charm, 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 tiie mind, To breathe th' enlivening spirit, snd to fix The generous purpose in the... | |
 | James Thomson, Dr. Johnson - Laziness - 1818 - 316 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'«r the UiiuJ, To breathe th' enlivening spirit, and to fix The generous purpose in the... | |
 | United States. Office of Education - Education - 1966 - 1002 pages
...human Blossoms blow, When 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 breath th'enliv'ning Spirit, and to fix The generous Purpose in the glowing... | |
 | Socialism - 1969 - 496 pages
...a vicious character is to remove the incentives to crime — " To pour the fresh instruction on his mind, To breathe the enlivening spirit, and to fix The generous purpose in his glowing breast." In proof of this general assertion, take the following story, related by Abulfaragiu/s... | |
 | Royall Tyler - Fiction - 1970 - 234 pages
...father consented to my mother's request that I should renew my career of learning. Delightful taskl 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' enliv'ning spirit, and to fix The gen'rous purpose in the... | |
 | 1889 - 68 pages
...McL. Barstow, '89 " The sweetest garland to the sweetest maid." The Masters, . . . . GA Hurd, '90 " Delightful task ! to rear the tender thought, to teach the young idea how to shoot." The Championship, . . . . WH Corbin, '89 "Thus far our fortune keeps an onward course, and... | |
 | Jay Fliegelman - History - 1982 - 344 pages
...epistolary enterprise: 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. It is far from surprising that both Paine and Franklin would cite The Seasons... | |
 | Julia Catherine Beckwith Hart - Education - 1991 - 292 pages
...gradually subsided, and cheerfulness again appeared willing to revisit our dwelling. We experienced it a "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... | |
 | 1889 - 1032 pages
...writing? 9. At what age should the child be laught to write? 10. Write as a specimen the following : "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 bieathe the euduring spirit, and to fix The generous purpose in the glowing... | |
 | Martha Finley - Juvenile Fiction - 1993 - 362 pages
...Take this child and nurse it for me, and I will give thee thy wages/ " CHAPTEE III. Delightful task I 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... | |
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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. 
