 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 542 str.
...Then infant Rcafon grows apace, and calls For the kind hand of an alTiduous care. Delightful talk ! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to (hoot, 1 150 , To pour the frefh inttrutUon o*er the mind, To breathe th' cnliv'ning fpirit, and to... | |
 | 1850 - 376 str.
...human plants, on which duties they have now entered ? W ould they be less capable of engaging in the " delightful task, to rear the tender thought — to teach the young idea how to shoot," &c. ? Would you imitate their success? Then follow their example. R. FISH. Г ~ — L . . ---... | |
 | Madame de Staël (Anne-Louise-Germaine) - 1800 - 410 str.
...qui nous fait nous The 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 , To pour the fresh instruction o'cr the mind , To breathe th'enlivening spirit and to fix The... | |
 | John Baillie - 1801 - 642 str.
...burtl forth with energy and luftre on the ftage of human affairs ' Or, as the poet Delightful tafk ; to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to (hoot, To pour the frefti inftnuftion o'er the mind, To breathe th* enlivening fpirit, and to fix The... | |
 | William Jay - 1801 - 46 str.
...her infant daughter — to view from the window the manly exploits of her boy— " Delightful talk, to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to (hoot, 5 " To pour the frefh inftrudlion o'er the mind, " To breathe th'enlivening fpirit, and to fix... | |
 | James Thomson, Patrick Murdoch - 1802 - 368 str.
...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, To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, To breathe th' enlivening spirit, and to fix The... | |
 | James Thomson - 1802 - 344 str.
...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, To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, To breathe th'enlivening spirit, and to fix The... | |
 | James Thomson - 1802 - 320 str.
...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, To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, To breathe th' enliv'ning spirit, and to fix The... | |
 | Philip Doddridge - 1803 - 666 str.
...plantations, you are watering also yourselves^ ; 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... | |
 | 1803 - 228 str.
...fruits : the sentiments become generous ; the 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... | |
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Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot... 
