 | William Mackenzie - 1810 - 200 pages
...by J.Harris . AWD HIS PUPILS: BEING A SEQUEL TO THE ACADEMY, OR PICTURE OF YOUTH. 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 th' enlivening spirit, and to fix The... | |
 | William Somervile - 1811 - 312 pages
...Then infant reason grows apace, and calls for the kind hand of an assiduous rare. 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 th' enliv'ning spirit and to fix the... | |
 | Sarah Trimmer - 1812 - 362 pages
...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, To pour the fresh instruction o'er the miiid To breathe th' enliv'ning spirit, ana to fix The... | |
 | Madame de Staël (Anne-Louise-Germaine) - 1812 - 640 pages
...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, To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind. To breathe th'cnliv'ning spirit, and to fix The... | |
 | John Ovington - 1813 - 168 pages
...Then infant reason grows apace, and calls For the kind hand ofan assiduous care. 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 th' enlivening spirit, and to fix The... | |
 | James Thomson - 1813 - 346 pages
...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... | |
 | 1813 - 486 pages
...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... | |
 | J A. Stewart - 1814 - 792 pages
...The 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, To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, To breathe th' enlivening spirit, and to fix The... | |
 | Abner Alden - 1814 - 222 pages
...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... | |
 | 1816 - 766 pages
...an earlier period may be proper,} when the parent or tutor, mould enter upon the " Delightful talk ! To rear the tender thought, ''• To teach the young idea how to fhoot." THOMSON. folly to teach him words before he have gained a knowledge of things. It is neceffary, it... | |
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Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot... 
