 | 1803 - 228 lehte
...fruits : the sentiments become generous ; the carriage endearing ; and the life honorable and useful. Delightful task ! to rear the tender thought, To teach...the fresh instruction o'er the mind. To breathe th' enliv'ning spirit, and to fix The gen'rous purpose in the glowing breast. Posterity wisely regulates... | |
 | Philip Doddridge - 1803 - 666 lehte
...plantations, you are watering also yourselves^ ; and from these • Pror. iii. 17. f PsaL xix. 11. \ Delightful task ! To rear the tender thought, To teach...shoot, To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, — and plant The generous purpose in the glowing breast. THOMPSON'S SPUING, p. 57. § Pror. xi, 25.... | |
 | James Thomson, John Aikin - 1804 - 232 lehte
...day, Soft as it rolls along, shews some new charm, 114 The father's lustre, and the mother's bloom. Then infant Reason grows apace, and calls For the...the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot, 1150 To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, To breathe th' enlivening spirit, and to fix... | |
 | William Enfield - 1804 - 418 lehte
...bloom. Then infant Reason grows apace , an! calls For tho kind hand of an assiduous cure, Deli;jitlul task ! to rear the tender Thought, To teach the young...pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, To breathe enlivening spirit, and to lix The generous purpose in the glowing breast , Oh ! speak the joy ! ye... | |
 | E. Tomkins - 1804 - 416 lehte
...confidence : for nought hut love Can answer love, and render hliss secure. • I '...•:. uclignttul task ! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young...shoot, To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, To hteathe tV enlivening spirit, and to fii The^nerous purpose in the glowing hreast. Oh speak the joy... | |
 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - 1804 - 692 lehte
...it from ruin, he may yet mend the morals of a private citizen, and can at least engage in the more Delightful task ! to rear the tender thought, To teach...shoot, To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, And fix the generous purpose in the glowing breast. Indeed it will b« strange if the being, whom we... | |
 | David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1804 - 694 lehte
...may yet mend the morals of a private citizen, and can at least engage in the more Delightful task f to rear the tender thought; To teach the young idea...shoot, To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, And fix the generous purpose in the glowing breast. Indeed it will be strange if the being, whom we... | |
 | 1806 - 408 lehte
...day, Soft as it rolls along, shews some new charm, The father's lustre, and the mother's bloom. The infant reason grows apace, and calls For the kind...breast. Oh speak the joy ! ye, whom the sudden tear Surprizes often, while you look around, And nothing strikes your eye but sights of bliss, All various... | |
 | James Thomson - 1806 - 242 lehte
...day, Soft as it rolls along, shews some new charm, 1145 The father's lustre, and the mother's bloom. Then infant reason grows apace, and calls For the...the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot, 1150 To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, To breathe th' enlivening spirit, and to fix... | |
 | Regina Maria Roche - 1807 - 306 lehte
...repeated to Harriet. No occupation could be more congenial to the romantic imagination of the, latter. " Delightful task, to rear the tender thought ; To teach the young idea how to shoot !" In one minute, fifty systems of education crossed her mind; and she would have essayed at... | |
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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. 
