 | James Thomson - 1813 - 346 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 Delight* from a rising OffspringAnd nothing strikes your eye but sights of bliss, All various... | |
 | Royall Tyler - Fiction - 1970 - 234 pages
...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...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 pages
...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 - History - 1982 - 344 pages
...epistolary enterprise: infant reason grows apace, and calls For the kind hand of an assiduous care Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, To teach...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 - Education - 1991 - 292 pages
...gradually subsided, and cheerfulness again appeared willing to revisit our dwelling. We experienced it a "Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, To teach...pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, To breathe the enlivening spirit, and to fix The generous purpose in the glowing breast." I must now, my dear... | |
 | 1889 - 1032 pages
...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.... | |
 | Martha Finley - Juvenile Fiction - 1993 - 362 pages
...Take this child and nurse it for me, and I will give thee thy wages/ " CHAPTEE III. Delightful task I to rear the tender thought^ To teach the young idea...pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, To breathe the enlivening spirit and to fix The generous purpose in the glowing breast! — Thomson's Seasons.... | |
 | William Vitek - Philosophy - 2010 - 283 pages
...1986), are used by permission of Oxford University Press. To my teachers, beginning with my parents. Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot. JAMES THOMSON "The Seasons: Spring" Contents Acknowledgments ix Chapter One: The Paradox of... | |
 | Anne Brontë - Fiction - 1994 - 196 pages
...April 1839). 12 similar to lines from James Thomson's (1700-1748) 'Spring' in The Seasons (1726-30): 'Delightful Task! to rear the tender Thought, / To teach the young Idea how to shoot'. Mrs Bronte's copy of The Seasons (London: W. Suttaby & C. Corrall, 1803) is now in the Bronte... | |
 | William Wells Brown, Hannah Webster Foster - Fiction - 1996 - 362 pages
...(1700-48): "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" ("Spring," 1728 version, lines 1062-65). LETTER XLIV Page 184 "The world's dread laugh, which... | |
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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. 
