 | James Boswell - 1799 - 648 str.
...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 Boswell - 1799 - 496 str.
...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... | |
 | John Adams - 1803 - 486 str.
...comfort both of public and domeftic life. May you long continue to be an ornament to your profeffion— " to rear the tender thought, and teach the young idea how to flioot;"— to infpire the pupils, who are intrufted to your care, with that genuine tafte, which cannot... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 514 str.
...fit for it. While we acknowledge the justness of Thomson's 1736 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... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1811 - 504 str.
...can be more pleasant in the theory ? But experience will convince all, who need conviction, that " to rear the tender thought, and teach the young idea how to shoot," is not, at least in a free-school, a very " delightful task." I soon found that my ushership entitled... | |
 | Harriet Corp - 1813 - 288 str.
...Sidle eonfused, and Miss Wilson remarked that her favourite poet had ealled it a " Delightful task to rear the tender thought, " And teach the young idea how to shoot!" " Aye, very delightful to those who delight in it," eried Miss Charlotte Jones, " but for iny part... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1840 - 586 str.
...teaching be far more agreeable, so as to realize, in some degree, what the poet says : " Delightful task ! to rear the tender thought And teach the young idea how to shoot ;" but the number of those, who could contribute to the common stock of instruction, would be greatly... | |
 | James Boswell - 1817 - 466 str.
...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... | |
 | 1830 - 604 str.
...his own eyes. With what delight did he hehold the growing heauties of his son ! With what pleasure ' Rear the tender thought, And teach the young idea how to shoot !' With what rapture did he listen to his sprightly sallies, his smart repartees, and those pretty... | |
 | James Boswell - 1821 - 394 str.
...fit for it. While we acknowledge the justness of Thomson's beautiful remark, f " 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... | |
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