| Richard Griffith - 1767 - 314 pages
...faithful wife, and the increafing joy of a delighted mother : I am, alas ! forbid the happy tafk, " To rear the tender thought, *' To teach the young idea how to fhoot, " To pour the freih inftrucYion o'er the mind, " To breathe th' enlivening fpirit, and to fix " The generous purpofe... | |
| James Thomson - 1774 - 272 pages
...and the mother's bloom. Then infant reafon grows apace, and calls Fur the. kind hand of an afliduous care. Delightful talk ! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to Ihoot, IIJU To pour the frefh inftru&ion o'er the mind,, To breathe th' enliv'hing fplrit, and to fix... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 280 pages
...charm, 1 145 The father's luftre, and the mother's bloom. Then infant rcafon grows apace, and call* For For the kind hand of an affiduous care. Delightful...tender thought, To teach the young idea how to fhoot, 1 150 To pour the frefh inltrudtion o'er the mind, To breathe :h' enlivening fpirit, and to fix The... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 304 pages
...Soft as it rolls along, fhews fome new charm, 1145 The father's luftre, and the mother's bloom. Then infant reafon, grows apace, and calls For the kind hand of an affiduous care. Delightful tafk ! to rear the tender thought, To pour the frefli inftruftion o'er the mind, \ To teach the young... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 628 pages
...along, fliews fome new charm, 1145 The father's luftre, and the mother's bloom. Then infant rtafon grows apace, and calls For the kind hand of an affiduous care. Delightful tafk ! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to flioot, 1150 To pour the frefli intfru&ion... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 274 pages
...infant reafon grows apace, and calls For For the kind hand of an affiduous care. Dclig'itful tafk ! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to fhoot, 1 i50 To pour the frefh inltruftion o'er the mind, To breathe th' enlivening fpirit, and to fix The... | |
| Children's poetry, English - 1780 - 226 pages
...day, Soft as it rolls along, fhews Tome new charm, The father's luftre, and the mother's bloom. Then infant 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| William Enfield - Elocution - 1785 - 460 pages
...day, Soft as it rolls along, fhews feme new charm, The father's luftre, and the mother's bloom. Then infant reafon grows apace, and calls For the kind hand of an affiduous care. Delightful tafk ! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to fhoot, To pour the frefh inftruftion... | |
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