 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.  La Belle Assemblée - Page 1921809Full view - About this book
 | James Thomson - 1769 - 218 pages
...bloom. Then infant reafon grows apace , and calls 1150 For For the kind hand of an afliduous care. Delightful task ! to rear the tender thought , To...teach the young idea how to shoot, To pour the fresh inftruction o'er the mind , To breathe th' enlivening fpirit, and to fix The generous purpofe in the... | |
 | James Thomson - 1793 - 300 pages
...fresh instruction o'er the mind, To breathe th' enlivening spirit, and to fix The generous purpofe in the glowing breast. Oh, speak the joy ! ye, whom the sudden tear Surprizes often, while you look around, 1155 And nothing strikes your eye but sights of bliss, All... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Universalism - 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) - French literature - 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... | |
 | Madame de Staël (Anne-Louise-Germaine) - Literature - 1800 - 410 pages
...qui nous fait nous The infant reason grows apace and calls For the Kind hand of an assiduous care. Delightful task! to rear the tender thought , To teach...idea how to shoot , To pour the fresh instruction o'cr the mind , To breathe th'enlivening spirit and to fix The generous purpose in the glowing breast.... | |
 | Gardening - 1850 - 376 pages
...human plants, on which duties they have now entered ? W ould they be less capable of engaging in the " delightful task, to rear the tender thought — to teach the young idea how to shoot," &c. ? Would you imitate their success? Then follow their example. R. FISH. Г ~ — L . . ---... | |
 | James Thomson - 1802 - 344 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...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,... | |
 | James Thomson - English poetry - 1802 - 320 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...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. Oh speak the joy! ye,... | |
 | James Thomson, Patrick Murdoch - 1802 - 368 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...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,... | |
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