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" 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. "
Conversations on Poetry:: Intended for the Amusement and Instruction of Children - Page 127
by Author of the Buxton diamonds - 1824 - 144 pages
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Poems

James Thomson - 1730 - 260 pages
...Then infant Rcafon grows apace, and calls For the kind Hand of an afliduous Care: Delightful Taskf to rear the tender Thought, To teach the young Idea how to fhoot, To pour the frefh InftrucHon o'er the Mind, To breathe th' infpiring Spirit, and to plant The...
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The Art of Rhetoric Made Easy

John Holmes - Oratory - 1739 - 202 pages
...WHE N infant Reafon grows apace — it calls For the kind Hand of an arduous Care : Delightful Tafk ! To rear the tender Thought, To teach the young Idea how to Jhoot, To pour the frejh Inflruftion o'er the Mind, To breathe th' infpiring Spirit, to implant The...
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The Works of James Thomson: With His Last Corrections, Additions ..., Volume 1

James Thomson - 1757 - 244 pages
...infant reafon grows apace, and calls 1150 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 inftrudtion o'er the mind, Tp breathe th' enlivening fpirit, and to fix 1155...
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The Prater

Edward Long, J. Holcombe - 1757 - 310 pages
...Then infant Reafon grows apace, and cails For the kind hand of an affiduous Care. Delightful Tafk ! to rear the tender Thought,, To teach the young Idea how to (hoot, To To pour the frefh Inftru&ion o'er the Mind, To breath th' enlivening Spirit, and to fix The...
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The Works of James Thomson: With His Last Corrections and ..., Volume 1

James Thomson - English literature - 1763 - 458 pages
...Then infant reafon grows apace, and calls For the kind hand of an adkluous 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, II 5O To breathe th' enlivening fpirit, and to...
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The Monthly Review Or Literary Journal

Several Hands - 1765 - 624 pages
...have perufed more than his tide-page, from his very proper choice of a motto, viz. Dejightful tafle ! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to (hoot, To pour the freih inftrnftion o'er the mind, To breathe th' infpiring fpirit, and to plant The...
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The Works of James Thomson: With His Last Corrections and Improvements. ...

James Thomson - 1766 - 266 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, 1150 To pour the frefh inftruftion o'er the mind, To breathe th' enlivening fpirit, and to fix...
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A series of genuine letters between Henry and Frances [by R. and E. Griffith].

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...
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The Seasons: By James Thomson

James Thomson - 1769 - 218 pages
...bloom. Then infant reafon grows apace , and calls 1150 For For the kind hand of an afliduous care. Delightful task ! to rear the tender thought , To...teach the young idea how to shoot, To pour the fresh inftruction o'er the mind , To breathe th' enlivening fpirit, and to fix The generous purpofe in the...
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The Works of James Thomson: With His Last Corrections and ..., Volume 1

James Thomson - 1774 - 272 pages
...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...
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