| 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 - 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... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 628 pages
...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 o'er the mind, To breathe th' enlivening fpirit, and to... | |
| Children's poetry, English - 1780 - 226 pages
...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, To pour the frefh inftruction o'er the mind, To breathe th' enlivening fpirit, and to fix The generous purpofe... | |
| 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
...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 o'er the mind, To breathe th' enlivening fpirit, and to fix The generous purpofe... | |
| 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... | |
| James Thomson, Patrick Murdoch - 1788 - 326 pages
...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 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... | |
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