 | E. Tomkins - 1804 - 416 pagine
...confidence : for nought hut love Can answer love, and render hliss secure. • I '...•:. uclignttul task ! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young...shoot, To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, To hteathe tV enlivening spirit, and to fii The^nerous purpose in the glowing hreast. Oh speak the joy... | |
 | William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pagine
...bloom. Then infant Reason grows apace , an! calls For tho kind hand of an assiduous cure, Deli;jitlul task ! to rear the tender Thought, To teach the young...shoot. To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, To breathe enlivening spirit, and to lix The generous purpose in the glowing breast , Oh ! speak the joy... | |
 | David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1804 - 694 pagine
...may yet mend the morals of a private citizen, and can at least engage in the more Delightful task f to rear the tender thought; To teach the young idea...shoot, To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, And fix the generous purpose in the glowing breast. Indeed it will be strange if the being, whom we... | |
 | 1806 - 408 pagine
...day, Soft as it rolls along, shews some new charm, The father's lustre, and the mother's bloom. The infant reason grows apace, and calls For the kind...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... | |
 | James Thomson - 1806 - 242 pagine
...day, Soft as it rolls along, shews some new charm, 1145 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... | |
 | John Stephens (Methodist minister.) - 1806 - 22 pagine
...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... | |
 | D. Roberts - 1806 - 256 pagine
...mother's soul, .r- to observe the gradual expansion. of the. intellect of an intelligent child: Vr " To teach the young idea how to shoot ; '. " To pour the fresh instruction on the mind ; — '* to watch the progressive improvement of a rational being ; and by a felici.r tous... | |
 | E Tomkins - 1806 - 280 pagine
...every day, Soft as it roils along, shows some new charm, The father's lustre, and 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,... | |
 | Regina Maria Roche - 1807 - 306 pagine
...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 pagine
...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... | |
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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. 
