 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.  The baptist Magazine - Page 5431832Full view - About this book
 | Henry Hunter - 1795 - 472 pages
...prompted by duty, drawn by affection, trained by experience, to affift him in the Delightful tafk ! To rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to moot, To pour the frefh inftruction o'er the mind, To breathe th' enlivening fpirit, and to fix The... | |
 | James Lackington - 1795 - 562 pages
...direcl: them. Reafon grows apace, and call* " For the kind hand of an affiduous care. " Delightful ta(k ! to rear the tender thought, " To teach the young idea how to fhoot, " To pour the frefh inftrufUon o'er the mind, " To breathe th" enlivening fpirit, and to fix... | |
 | 1795 - 630 pages
...and (uperintcndcd the ccr'luit of his tutor!. The afliduout care of perfont fo eminently qualified •to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to ihoot, To pour the frelh inftruilion o'»r the mind, To breathe th* enlivening Ipirit, and to fix The... | |
 | Addison (pseud.) - 1795 - 616 pages
...fentiments become generous ; the carriage endearing ; and the life honourable and ufeful. 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'enliv'ning fpirit, and to fix The... | |
 | Tate Wilkinson, Samuel Foote, David Garrick - 1795 - 598 pages
...obfervation and the deferred tribute to the painful tafk of tutor over the male and female mind t: To rear the tender thought, " To teach the young idea how to (hoot, " To pour the frefii inltrufHon o'er the mind, " To breathe th' enliv'ning fpirit, anJ to fix... | |
 | 1796 - 220 pages
...bloom. Then infant reafon grows apace and calls 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 infttuction o'er the mind. £ z To breathe th' enlivening fpirit, and to fix... | |
 | James Thomson - 1800 - 302 pages
...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...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 joy ! ye... | |
 | 1800 - 490 pages
...mention, were not presumptuous. If so, his humility is edifying. OMICRON. THE PRECEPTOR. No. HI. • Delightful task ! to rear the tender thought, * To teach the young idea how to shoot, To pour.tlie fresti instruction o'er the mind, To breathe ih'cnliv'mng spirit, and to fix The Ken'roul... | |
 | Madame de Staël (Anne-Louise-Germaine) - 1800 - 450 pages
...realon grows apace and calls For the Kind hand of an allîdnous care. Delightful tafk ! to rear tha tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot, To pour the frefh inftruction o'er the mind. To breathe th'enlivening fpirit and to fix The generous purpofe iu... | |
 | Apollo - 1800 - 224 pages
...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 lhoot, To pour the frefh inftruction o'er the mind, To breathe th' enlivening fpirit, and to fix The... | |
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