 | James Boswell - 1887 - 598 pages
...they do enough to excite malevolence ; and VOL. I. H Yet Garrick yohnsoris pupil. Yet I am of opinion that the greatest abilities are not only not required...Delightful task ! to rear the tender thought, And teach1 the young idea how to shoot!' we must consider that this delight is perceptible only by ' a... | |
 | James Boswell - 1888 - 608 pages
...to very high respect from the community, as Johnson himself often maintained. Yet I am of opinion, that the greatest abilities are not only not required...tender thought And teach the young idea how to shoot 1 " we must consider that this delight is perceptible only by " a mind at ease," a mind at once calm... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 566 pages
...to very high respect from the community, as Johnson himself often maintained. Tet I am of opinion, that the greatest abilities are not only not required...remark, " Delightful task ! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot ! " we must consider that this delight is perceptible only by... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 574 pages
...to very high respect from the community, as Johnson himself often maintained. Yet I am of opinion, that the greatest abilities are not only not required...remark, " Delightful task ! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot ! " we must consider that this delight is perceptible only by... | |
 | James Boswell - 1890 - 568 pages
...himself often maintained. Yet I am of opinion, that the greatest abilities are not only not required fur this office, but render a man less fit for it. While...justness of Thomson's beautiful remark, " Delightful task I to rear the tender thought, And teach the young idea how to shoot 1 " we must consider that this... | |
 | James Boswell - 1911 - 672 pages
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 | David Perkins Page - 1893 - 362 pages
...can most cordially respond to the poet, in that beautiful sentiment too seldom fully realized: — "Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, And 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... | |
 | Alan Reid - 1897 - 674 pages
...have risen nobly from the trammels of circumstances to labour in that higher sphere where it is a " Delightful task to rear the tender thought, And teach the young idea how to shoot. " William Cowper was one of these ; and it is due to his memory to say that he laboured with much success... | |
 | Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi - 1898 - 208 pages
...which she has undertaken to guide them she is amply repaid by the delight immediately arising from the task, "to rear the tender thought. And teach the young idea how to shoot." I have here supposed the most powerful motive, that of maternal love ; but it will be the task of early... | |
 | Frederick Clifton Pierce - 1899 - 496 pages
...with almost any inconvenience. In fact, his main desire was to please those with whom he labored — "to rear the tender thought and teach the young idea how to shoot." In the years, 1822-3-4, he taught three different schools in the town of Vassalboro, Me., giving good... | |
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... and I have ever thought that those who devote themselves to this employment, and do their duty with diligence and success, are entitled to very high respect from the community, as Johnson himself often maintained. 
