 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
 | Madame de Staël (Anne-Louise-Germaine) - 1812 - 640 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 teach...pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind. To breathe th'cnliv'ning spirit, and to fix The gen'rous purpose in the glowing breast. Oh speak the joy ! ye,... | |
 | Sarah Trimmer - 1812 - 362 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...how to shoot, To pour the fresh instruction o'er the miiid To breathe th' enliv'ning spirit, ana to fix The generous purpose in the glowing breast. Nor... | |
 | John Ovington - 1813 - 168 pages
...the mother's bloom. Then infant reason grows apace, and calls For the kind hand ofan assiduous care. Delightful task ! to rear the tender thought, To teach...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 ! yt:... | |
 | 1813 - 486 pages
...adopted; but in such cases, it is recommended by the most powerful arguments. Then, indeed, it becomes a Delightful task to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot; To pour the fresh instructions o'er the mind, To breathe the enlivening spirit, and to fix The generous purpose in the... | |
 | James Thomson - 1813 - 346 pages
...the 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 teach the young idea how to shoot, 1150 Delight* from a rising OffspringAnd nothing strikes your eye but sights of bliss, All various... | |
 | James Thomson, Samuel Johnson - 1813 - 180 pages
...the kind hand of an assiduous care. c Delightful task ! to rear the tender thought, To teach the youg idea how to 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 joy ! ye,... | |
 | J A. Stewart - 1814 - 792 pages
...mother's bloom. i The infant reason grows apace, and calls For the kind hand of an assiduous care : Delightful task, to rear the tender thought, To teach...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 !... | |
 | William Scott - 1814 - 424 pages
...things, .enduretb. all .things.— —ft. Paul. 14. Delightful task to rear the tender thought, To leach 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 gea'rous purpose in the glowing breast— Tkotnton. 15.... | |
 | J A. Stewart - 1814 - 798 pages
...hand of an assiduous care : •• ' Delightful task, to rear the tender thought, To teach the yonng idea how to 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 joy !... | |
 | Abner Alden - 1814 - 222 pages
...and every ornament that can render * discourse eai:rla:a!ag, wiunirtg, sinking, and enforcDelightful task ! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shnot, To pour the fresh instruction o'er the miivl, To breathe the enlivening spirit, and to fii The... | |
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