 | John Bell - English poetry - 1787 - 510 pages
...Kcafon grows apace, and calU t'olumt l. 'For the kind hand of an afliduous care. Delightful tafk ! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to fhoot, To pour the frefh inftruftion o'er the mind, To breathe th' enlivening fpirit, and to fix The generous purpofe... | |
 | 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... | |
 | James Thomson, Patrick Murdoch - 1788 - 326 pages
...day, Soft as it rolls along, fhews fome 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Books - 1788 - 750 pages
...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... | |
 | Periodicals - 1788 - 404 pages
...day, Soft as it rolls along, (hews fome new charm, The father's luftre, and the mother's bloom. Then infant 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,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 292 pages
...Soft as it rolls along, mews fome new charm, 1 145 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 moot, 1 150 To pour the frefh inflrucYion... | |
 | William Creech - Edinburgh (Scotland) - 1791 - 346 pages
...fafhionable accompli Ihment, and fhould be taught early, that when bf is old he may not depart from if. " Delightful talk! to rear the tender thought, " To teach the young idea how to fhoot, " To pour che frelh inftru&ion o'er the mind, " And breathe th' enlivening fpirit." •» IT is very diverting... | |
 | John Adams - English fiction - 1791 - 500 pages
...their alfiduous care. How beautifully is the parental duty defcribed by the poet ! " Delightful tafk ! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to fhoot, To pour the frefli inftru&ion o'er the mind, T To To breath th' enlivening fpirit, and to fix The generous purpofe... | |
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Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot... 
