 | James Thomson - 1802 - 344 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'enlivening spirit, and to fix The... | |
 | James Thomson - English poetry - 1802 - 320 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' enliv'ning spirit, and to fix The... | |
 | James Thomson - 1803 - 330 pages
...their graces. By degrees, The hifman bloflbm blows ; and evety day, Soft as it rolls along, fhews Come new charm, The father's luftre, and the mother's bloom....reafon grows apace, and calls For the kind hand of an alfiduous care. Delightful tafk j to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to fhoot,... | |
 | Henry Hunter - 1803 - 286 pages
...realon expand. The human blulTom blows ; and every day, Soft ai it roll* along, (hews fome new charm. Then infant reafon grows apace, and calls For the kind hand of an alfiduous care. Delightful taflc 1 to rear the tender thought. To teach the young idea how to (hoot,... | |
 | Aphorisms and apothegms - 1803 - 228 pages
...sentiments become generous ; the carriage endearing ; and the life honorable and useful. 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... | |
 | James Thomson - 1803 - 186 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 hreathe the enlivening spirit, and to fix The... | |
 | Philip Doddridge - Theology - 1803 - 666 pages
...are watering also yourselves^ ; and from these • Pror. iii. 17. f PsaL xix. 11. \ Delightful task ! To rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot, To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, — and plant The generous purpose in the glowing... | |
 | William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...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... | |
 | James Thomson, John Aikin - 1804 - 232 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 To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, To breathe th' enlivening spirit, and to fix... | |
 | E. Tomkins - 1804 - 416 pages
...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... | |
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Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot... 
