 | James Boswell - 1799 - 496 pages
...but render a man less fit for it. While we acknowledge the justness of Thomson's beautiful remark, " Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, " And teach the young idea how to shoot!" we must consider that this delight is perceptible only by " a mind at ease," a mind at once calm and... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 648 pages
...life.' Johnson's Works, viii. 36. While we acknowledge the justness of Thomson's beautiful remark, ' Delightful task ! to rear the tender thought, And teach ' the young idea how to shoot !' we must consider that this delight is perceptible only by 'a mind at ease,' a mind at once calm... | |
 | James Thomson - 1800 - 302 pages
...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 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... | |
 | Madame de Staël (Anne-Louise-Germaine) - 1800 - 410 pages
...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 instruction o'cr the mind , To breathe th'enlivening spirit and to fix The generous purpose in the glowing breast.... | |
 | James Thomson - 1802 - 320 pages
...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 instruction o'er the mind, To breathe th' enliv'ning spirit, and to fix The gen'rous purpose in the glowing breast. Oh speak the joy! ye,... | |
 | James Thomson - 1802 - 344 pages
...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 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 - 1802 - 340 pages
...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 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,... | |
 | 1803 - 228 pages
...carriage endearing ; and the life honorable and useful. 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' enliv'ning spirit, and to fix The gen'rous purpose in the glowing breast. Posterity wisely regulates... | |
 | James Thomson - 1803 - 186 pages
...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 instruction o'er the mind, To hreathe the enlivening spirit, and to fix The generous purpose in the glowing hreast. Oh speak the... | |
 | Philip Doddridge - 1803 - 666 pages
...and from these • Pror. iii. 17. f PsaL xix. 11. \ Delightful task ! To rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot, To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, — and plant The generous purpose in the glowing breast. THOMPSON'S SPUING, p. 57. § Pror. xi, 25.... | |
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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. 
