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. Grocott's familiar quotations - Seite 44von J.C. GROCOTT - 1854Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| 1804 - 844 Seiten
...' Delightful task ! to rear the tender thought, ",-y To teach the youns; idea how to shoot, To poor the fresh instruction o'er the mind, To breathe th' enliv'ning spirit, and to fix The geu'rous purpose in- the glowing breast.' THOMSON'S SEASOSI. ARGUMENT. T\t Author kef]ietli a Country... | |
| James Thomson - 1774 - 272 Seiten
...Then infant reafon grows apace, and calls Fur the. kind hand of an afliduous care. Delightful talk ! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to Ihoot, IIJU To pour the frefh inftru&ion o'er the mind,, To breathe th' enliv'hing fplrit, and to fix... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 280 Seiten
...Then infant rcafon grows apace, and call* For For the kind hand of an affiduous care. Delightful talk! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to fhoot, 1 150 To pour the frefh inltrudtion o'er the mind, To breathe :h' enlivening fpirit, and to... | |
| 1780 - 226 Seiten
...Then infant reafon grows apace, and calls For the kind hand of an afiiduous care. Delightful tafk! 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... | |
| Thomas Percival - 1781 - 330 Seiten
...pafled a winter evening by the fire-fide of Euphronius, whofe pleafing, though anxious tafk it was, To rear the tender thought; To teach the young idea how to fhoot; To pour the frefh inftruaion o'er the mind ; To To breathe th' enlivening fpirit ; and to fix... | |
| Jane Warton - 1782 - 194 Seiten
...their faces :-— Alas ! little do fuch parents know the pleafures of that delightful taflc,. — — " To rear the tender thought, " To teach the young idea how to flioot, " To pour the frefh initrudion o'er the " mind, M z " Tft •* To breathe th' infpiring fpirit,... | |
| William Enfield - 1785 - 460 Seiten
...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 fhoot, To pour the frefh inftruftion o'er the mind, To breathe th' enlivening fpirit, and to fix The... | |
| John Bell - 1787 - 510 Seiten
...Kcafon grows apace, and calU t'olumt l. 'For the kind hand of an afliduous care. Delightful tafk ! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to fhoot, To pour the frefh inftruftion o'er the mind, To breathe th' enlivening fpirit, and to fix The... | |
| 1788 - 750 Seiten
...laft, p. 537. Art. 34. The Parental Monitor, izmo. 2 Vols. 53. fewed. Lane. 1788. " Delighful tafk ! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to (hoot, To pour the frefh inltru&ion o'er the mind," &c. The writer of thefe volumes (Mrs. Elizabeth... | |
| Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1788 - 738 Seiten
...objections are urged. Art. 34. The Parental Moniter. izmo. 2 Vols. 55. fewed. Lane. 1788. " Delighful talk ! to rear the tender thought. To teach the young idea how to (hoot, To pour the frefh inllrudlion o'er the mind," &c. The writer of thefe volumes (Mrs. Elizabeth... | |
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