 | Hannah More - 1800 - 96 pages
...A PASTORAL DRAMA FOR YOUNG LADIES. SEARCH AFTER HAPPINESS A PASTORAL DRAMA. THE TWELFTH EDITION. " To rear the tender thought, " To teach the young idea how to (hoot, " To pour riWfedh iuihui'hou o'er |4»»mind, " To breathe th'enliv'ning fpirit, and to fix... | |
 | John Baillie - Newcastle upon Tyne (England) - 1801 - 642 pages
...properly cherifhed, burtl forth with energy and luftre on the ftage of human affairs ' Or, as the poet Delightful tafk ; to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to (hoot, To pour the frefti inftnuftion o'er the mind, To breathe th* enlivening fpirit, and to fix The... | |
 | William Jay - Bible - 1801 - 46 pages
...her infant daughter — to view from the window the manly exploits of her boy— " Delightful talk, to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to (hoot, 5 " To pour the frefh inftrudlion o'er the mind, " To breathe th'enlivening fpirit, and to fix... | |
 | Gardening - 1850 - 376 pages
...which duties they have now entered ? W ould they be less capable of engaging in the " delightful task, to rear the tender thought — to teach the young idea how to shoot," &c. ? Would you imitate their success? Then follow their example. R. FISH. Г ~ — L . . ---... | |
 | 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 - 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, Patrick Murdoch - 1802 - 368 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 - 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... | |
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Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot... 
