 | 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 idea how to shoot, To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, To hteathe tV enlivening spirit, and to fii The^nerous... | |
 | William Enfield - 1804 - 418 lehte
...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 Idea how to shoot. To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, To breathe enlivening spirit, and to lix The generous... | |
 | William Enfield - 1805 - 456 lehte
...fome new charm, The father's lullre, and the mother's bloom. Then infant reafon grows apace, and calls For the kind hand of an affiduous care. Delightful talk ! to rear the tender thtuglit, [ To teach the young idea how to fh.)ot, ' To pour the freth inliruftion o'er the mind, To... | |
 | E Tomkins - 1806 - 280 lehte
...Then infant reason grows apace, and calls For the kind hand of au 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... | |
 | 1806 - 408 lehte
...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... | |
 | John Stephens (Methodist minister.) - 1806 - 22 lehte
...prompted by duty, drawn by afFeftion, trained by experience, to affiil him in the f * Delightful taík ! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to (hoot, To pour the frefh inftruftion o'er the mind, To breathe the enlivening fpirit, and to fix The... | |
 | James Thomson - 1806 - 242 lehte
...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 To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, To breathe th' enlivening spirit, and to fix... | |
 | Regina Maria Roche - 1807 - 306 lehte
...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... | |
 | Robert Robinson - 1807 - 376 lehte
...to seta young gentleman a thinking for himself, and to give a right turn to a habit of reasoning ; to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot. In all this he followed NATURE, and so he did when he praised Homer for calling Agamemnon THE... | |
 | 1794 - 826 lehte
...bloom." Their 229 Their pleafures are wholly centered in their offspring, and their only delight is, " Delightful talk ! To rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to fhoot, To pour the I'rcfli iriltru<3ion o'er the mind ; . , To breathe th' enlivening fpirit, and to fix The gen'rous... | |
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