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 generous purpose in the glowing breast. The Seasons - Seite 66von James Thomson - 1842 - 320 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| William Creech - 1815 - 440 Seiten
...fashionable accomplishment, and should be taught early, " that when he is old he may not depart from it." " Delightful task ! to rear the tender thought, To teach...shoot, To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, And breathe th' enlivening spirit."— It is very diverting to a company to hear the first efforts... | |
| Rodolphus Dickinson - 1815 - 214 Seiten
...kind hand of an assiduous care. Delightful task I to rear the tender thought, COLUMBIAN READER. 16* 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 generous purpose in the glowing breast. Oh speak the joy ! ye,... | |
| Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - 1816 - 414 Seiten
...their pretty eyes may roll ; Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the sou!." POPE. VIRTUOUS LOVE. 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 gen'rous purpose in the glowing breast. O speak the joy ! ye,... | |
| 1816 - 766 Seiten
...an earlier period may be proper,} when the parent or tutor, mould enter upon the " Delightful talk ! To rear the tender thought, ''• To teach the young idea how to fhoot." THOMSON. folly to teach him words before he have gained a knowledge of things. It is neceffary,... | |
| United States. Office of Education - 1966 - 1002 Seiten
...that more useful Culture of young Minds. Thompson says, 'Tis Joy to see the human Blossoms blow, When infant Reason grows apace, and calls For the kind...shoot, To pour the fresh Instruction o'er the Mind, To breath th'enliv'ning Spirit, and to fix The generous Purpose in the glowing Breast. That a House be... | |
| Royall Tyler - 1970 - 234 Seiten
...father consented to my mother's request that I should renew my career of learning. Delightful taskl to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea...pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, To breathe th' enliv'ning spirit, and to fix The gen'rous purpose in the glowing breast. THOMSON'S Seasons ARGUMENT... | |
| 1889 - 68 Seiten
...McL. Barstow, '89 " The sweetest garland to the sweetest maid." The Masters, . . . . GA Hurd, '90 " Delightful task ! to rear the tender thought, to teach the young idea how to shoot." The Championship, . . . . WH Corbin, '89 "Thus far our fortune keeps an onward course, and... | |
| Jay Fliegelman - 1982 - 344 Seiten
...describes the coming of spring in the same terms Chesterfield describes his epistolary enterprise: infant reason grows apace, and calls For the kind...shoot To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind. It is far from surprising that both Paine and Franklin would cite The Seasons prominently in their... | |
| Julia Catherine Beckwith Hart - 1991 - 292 Seiten
...find in raising their children. The version of these lines in the 1746 edition of The Seasons reads: 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. See The Seasons. 1981,... | |
| 1889 - 1032 Seiten
...writing? 9. At what age should the child be laught to write? 10. Write as a specimen the following : "Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, To teach...shoot, To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, To bieathe the euduring spirit, and to fix The generous purpose in the glowing breast.'' WRITTEN ARITHMETIC.... | |
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