 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
 | George Wright (author of The rural Christian.) - 1788 - 326 Seiten
...anxiety, fear, and concern alternately take place in each other's breaft, to prove the * Delightful tafk 1 to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to fhoot ; To pour the frefti inftrui£lion o'er the mind^ To breathe the enliv'ning fpirit, and to fix... | |
 | James Thomson, Patrick Murdoch - 1788 - 326 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... | |
 | 1788 - 404 Seiten
...Then infant reafon grows apace, and calls For the kind hand of an afliduous care. Delightful taflt ! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to (hoot, To pour the frcm inftruclion o'er the mind, 'To breathe th' enlivening fpirit, and to fix The... | |
 | Johann Joachim Eschenaburg - 1789 - 484 Seiten
...bloom. The 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 fhoor, To pour the frefh inftruction o'er the mind, To breathe th* enlivening fpirit, and to fix The... | |
 | William Scott - 1789 - 416 Seiten
...things, believcth all things, hopethall things, endureth all things. St Paul. 14. Delightful tafkJ to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to fcoot, To pour the frefli initruflion o'er the mind, To b*e;ithe the enlivening. fpirit, and to fix... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 292 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 moot, 1 150 To pour the frefh inflrucYion o'er the mind, To breathe th' enlivening fpirit, and to fix... | |
 | John Adams - 1791 - 500 Seiten
...their alfiduous care. How beautifully is the parental duty defcribed by the poet ! " Delightful tafk ! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to fhoot, To pour the frefli inftru&ion o'er the mind, T To To breath th' enlivening fpirit, and to fix... | |
 | William Creech - 1791 - 346 Seiten
...Ihment, and fhould be taught early, that when bf is old he may not depart from if. " Delightful talk! to rear the tender thought, " To teach the young idea how to fhoot, " To pour che frelh inftru&ion o'er the mind, " And breathe th' enlivening fpirit." •» IT... | |
 | James Lackington - 1792 - 556 Seiten
...direcl: them. Reafon grows apace, and calls " For the kind hand of an afliduons 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... | |
 | 1794 - 954 Seiten
...Then infant reafon grows apace, and call» For the kind hand of an affiduous care. Delightful talk ! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to fhoot, To pour the frcfh inftruition o'er the mind, To breathe th' enlivening (pint, and to fix The... | |
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