...fashionable accomplishment, and should be taught early, " that when he is old he may not depart from it." " Delightful task ! to rear the tender thought, To teach...shoot, To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, And breathe th' enlivening spirit."— It is very diverting to a company to hear the first efforts...

...kind hand of an assiduous care. Delightful task I to rear the tender thought, COLUMBIAN READER. 16* To teach the young 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,...

...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...mind, To breathe the enlivening spirit, and to fix The generous purpose in the glowing breast. Oh speak the joy ! ye, whom the sudden tear Surprises often,...

...father consented to my mother's request that I should renew my career of learning. Delightful taskl to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea...pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, To breathe th' enliv'ning spirit, and to fix The gen'rous purpose in the glowing breast. THOMSON'S Seasons ARGUMENT...

...McL. Barstow, '89 " The sweetest garland to the sweetest maid." The Masters, . . . . GA Hurd, '90 " Delightful task ! to rear the tender thought, to teach the young idea how to shoot." The Championship, . . . . WH Corbin, '89 "Thus far our fortune keeps an onward course, and...

...epistolary enterprise: infant reason grows apace, and calls For the kind hand of an assiduous care Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, To teach...shoot To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind. It is far from surprising that both Paine and Franklin would cite The Seasons prominently in their...

...find in raising their children. The version of these lines in the 1746 edition of The Seasons reads: 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. See The Seasons. 1981,...

...Take this child and nurse it for me, and I will give thee thy wages/ " CHAPTEE III. Delightful task I to rear the tender thought^ To teach the young idea...mind, To breathe the enlivening spirit and to fix The generous purpose in the glowing breast! — Thomson's Seasons. THE Ion little folks were allowed an...

...writing? 9. At what age should the child be laught to write? 10. Write as a specimen the following : "Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, To teach...shoot, To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, To bieathe the euduring spirit, and to fix The generous purpose in the glowing breast.'' WRITTEN ARITHMETIC....

...1986), are used by permission of Oxford University Press. To my teachers, beginning with my parents. Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot. JAMES THOMSON "The Seasons: Spring" Contents Acknowledgments ix Chapter One: The Paradox of...