 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 the' enlivening spirit, and to fix The generous purpose in the glowing breast.  La Belle Assemblée - Page 1921809Full view - About this book
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...happiness. Love is said to be an idle dream—a fleeting fancy thus it may often be ; but . - Oh speak its joy ! ye whom the sudden tear Surprises often, while you look around, ' And nothing strikes your eye but sights of bliss—* ' I . , J '. i t f In this soft, this delightful union,... | |
 | English poetry - 1806 - 408 pages
...the mother's bloom. The infant reason grows apace, and calls For the kind hand of an assiduous care. Delightful task ! to rear the tender thought, To teach...pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, To breathe th' enlivening spirit, and to fix The generous purpose in the glowing breast. Oh speak the joy ! ye,... | |
 | E Tomkins - 1806 - 280 pages
...the mother's bloom. Then infant reason grows apace, and calls For the kind hand of au assiduous care. Delightful task ! to rear the tender thought, To teach...pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, To breathe th' enlivening spirit, and to fix The generous purpose in the glowing breast. Oh speak the joy ! ye... | |
 | James Thomson - 1806 - 242 pages
...the mother's bloom. 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... | |
 | 1806 - 666 pages
...plan of life, which she makes the lover of Camilla so pathetically adopt, and address to his mistress. Oh, speak the joy! ye, whom the sudden tear Surprises often, while you li.ok around, And nothing strikes your eye but sights of bliss, All various nature pressing on the... | |
 | Regina Maria Roche - 1807 - 306 pages
...repeated to Harriet. No occupation could be more congenial to the romantic imagination of the, latter. " Delightful task, to rear the tender thought ; To teach the young idea how to shoot !" In one minute, fifty systems of education crossed her mind; and she would have essayed at... | |
 | Cabinet - 1808 - 524 pages
...indulgent heaven. Then infant reason grows apace, and calls For the kind hand of an assiduous care. Delightful task ! to rear the tender thought, To teach...pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, To breathe th' enlivening spirit, and to fix The generous purpose in the glowing breast. Oh, speak the joy ! ye,... | |
 | William Enfield - Elocution - 1808 - 434 pages
...the mother's bloom. Then infant reason grows apace, and call For the kind hand of an assiduous care. Delightful task ! to rear the tender thought, To teach...pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, To breathe th' enlivening spirit, and to fix The generous purpose in the glowing breast. Ah speak the joy ! ye... | |
 | William Mackenzie - Boarding schools - 1808 - 206 pages
...LIBRARY THE GIFT OF EDWARD PERCIVAL MERRITT OF BOSTON Class of 1882 fub. ACADEMY; OR PICTURE OF YOUTH. Delightful task ! to rear the tender thought, To teach...how to shoot, To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mlndj To breathe th' enlivening spirit, and to fix The generous purpose in the glowing breast. THOMSON.... | |
 | James Thomson, Thomas Park - 1808 - 444 pages
...the mother's bloom. 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 instnietion o'er the mind, To breathe the' enlivening spirit, and to fix The generous purpose in the... | |
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