 | William Creech - 1815 - 440 str.
...fashionable accomplishment, and should be taught early, " that when he is old he may not depart from it." " Delightful task ! to rear the tender thought, To teach...shoot, To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, And breathe th' enlivening spirit."— It is very diverting to a company to hear the first efforts... | |
 | Rodolphus Dickinson - 1815 - 214 str.
...kind hand of an assiduous care. Delightful task I to rear the tender thought, COLUMBIAN READER. 16* 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, whom... | |
 | Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - 1816 - 414 str.
...their pretty eyes may roll ; Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the sou!." POPE. VIRTUOUS LOVE. DELIGHTFUL task ! to rear the tender thought, To teach...the fresh instruction o'er the mind. To breathe th' enlivening spirit, and to fix The gen'rous purpose in the glowing breast. O speak the joy ! ye, whom... | |
 | Royall Tyler - 1970 - 234 str.
...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...to fix The gen'rous purpose in the glowing breast. THOMSON'S Seasons ARGUMENT The Author keepeth a country School: The Anticipations, Pleasures and Profits... | |
 | 1889 - 68 str.
...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 - 1982 - 344 str.
...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 - 1991 - 292 str.
...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 str.
...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 - 1993 - 362 str.
...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 - 2010 - 283 str.
...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... | |
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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 the enlivening spirit, and to fix The generous purpose in the glowing breast. 
