 | Children's poetry, English - 1780 - 226 pages
...their graces. By degrees The human bloffom hlowsi and every day, Soft as it rolls along, fhews Tome new charm, The father's luftre, and the mother's bloom....reafon grows apace, and calls For the kind hand of an afiiduous care. Delightful tafk! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to fhoot,... | |
 | Thomas Percival - 1781 - 330 pages
...pafled a winter evening by the fire-fide of Euphronius, whofe pleafing, though anxious tafk it was, To rear the tender thought; To teach the young idea how to fhoot; To pour the frefh inftruaion o'er the mind ; To To breathe th' enlivening fpirit ; and to fix The generous purpofe in... | |
 | Jane Warton - Conduct of life - 1782 - 194 pages
...their faces :-— Alas ! little do fuch parents know the pleafures of that delightful taflc,. — — " To rear the tender thought, " To teach the young idea how to flioot, " To pour the frefh initrudion o'er the " mind, M z " Tft •* To breathe th' infpiring fpirit,... | |
 | Periodicals - 1788 - 404 pages
...their graces. By degrees, The human blollbm blows ; and every day, Soft as it rolls along, (hews fome new charm, The father's luftre, and the mother's bloom....reafon grows apace, and calls For the kind hand of an afliduous care. Delightful taflt ! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to (hoot,... | |
 | George Wright (author of The rural Christian.) - 1788 - 326 pages
...anxiety, fear, and concern alternately take place in each other's breaft, to prove the * Delightful tafk 1 to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to fhoot ; To pour the frefti inftrui£lion o'er the mind^ To breathe the enliv'ning fpirit, and to fix The generous purpofc... | |
 | Books - 1788 - 750 pages
...June laft, p. 537. Art. 34. The Parental Monitor, izmo. 2 Vols. 53. fewed. Lane. 1788. " Delighful tafk ! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to (hoot, To pour the frefh inltru&ion o'er the mind," &c. The writer of thefe volumes (Mrs. Elizabeth... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - Periodicals - 1788 - 738 pages
...objections are urged. Art. 34. The Parental Moniter. izmo. 2 Vols. 55. fewed. Lane. 1788. " Delighful talk ! to rear the tender thought. To teach the young idea how to (hoot, To pour the frefh inllrudlion o'er the mind," &c. The writer of thefe volumes (Mrs. Elizabeth... | |
 | Johann Joachim Eschenaburg - Literature - 1789 - 484 pages
...Soft as it rolls along, i'hews fome new charm, ', The father's luftre, and "the mother's bloom. The infant reafon grows apace, and calls For the kind...the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to fhoor, To pour the frefh inftruction o'er the mind, To breathe th* enlivening fpirit, and to fix The... | |
 | Johann Joachim Eschenaburg - Literature - 1789 - 486 pages
...day, Soft as it rolls along, fhews fome new charm, The father's luftre, and the mother's bloom. The infant reafon grows apace, and calls For the kind hand of an affiduous care. '* Delightful tal'k! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to fhoot, To pour the frel'h inftruclion... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1789 - 416 pages
...things, believcth all things, hopethall things, endureth all things. St Paul. 14. Delightful tafkJ to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to fcoot, To pour the frefli initruflion o'er the mind, To b*e;ithe the enlivening. fpirit, and to fix... | |
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Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot... 
