 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 280 str.
...charm, 1 145 The father's luftre, and the mother's bloom. Then infant rcafon grows apace, and call* For For the kind hand of an affiduous care. Delightful...tender thought, To teach the young idea how to fhoot, 1 150 To pour the frefh inltrudtion o'er the mind, To breathe :h' enlivening fpirit, and to fix The... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 274 str.
...infant reafon grows apace, and calls For For the kind hand of an affiduous care. Dclig'itful tafk ! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to fhoot, 1 i50 To pour the frefh inltruftion o'er the mind, To breathe th' enlivening fpirit, and to fix The... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 628 str.
...Then infant rtafon grows apace, and calls For the kind hand of an affiduous care. Delightful tafk ! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to flioot, 1150 To pour the frefli intfru&ion o'er the mind, To breathe th' enlivening fpirit, and to... | |
 | 1780 - 226 str.
...Then infant reafon grows apace, and calls For the kind hand of an afiiduous care. Delightful tafk! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to fhoot, To pour the frefh inftruction o'er the mind, To breathe th' enlivening fpirit, and to fix The generous purpofe... | |
 | Thomas Percival - 1781 - 330 str.
...pafled a winter evening by the fire-fide of Euphronius, whofe pleafing, though anxious tafk it was, To rear the tender thought; To teach the young idea how to fhoot; To pour the frefh inftruaion o'er the mind ; To To breathe th' enlivening fpirit ; and to fix The generous purpofe... | |
 | Jane Warton - 1782 - 194 str.
...their faces :-— Alas ! little do fuch parents know the pleafures of that delightful taflc,. — — " To rear the tender thought, " To teach the young idea how to flioot, " To pour the frefh initrudion o'er the " mind, M z " Tft •* To breathe th' infpiring fpirit,... | |
 | William Enfield - 1785 - 460 str.
...Then infant reafon grows apace, and calls For the kind hand of an affiduous care. Delightful tafk ! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to fhoot, To pour the frefh inftruftion o'er the mind, To breathe th' enlivening fpirit, and to fix The generous purpofe... | |
 | John Bell - 1787 - 510 str.
...Kcafon grows apace, and calU t'olumt l. 'For the kind hand of an afliduous care. Delightful tafk ! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to fhoot, To pour the frefh inftruftion o'er the mind, To breathe th' enlivening fpirit, and to fix The generous purpofe... | |
 | James Thomson, Patrick Murdoch - 1788 - 326 str.
...Then infant reafon grows apace, and calls For the kind hand of an affiduous care. Delightful tafk ! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to fhoot, To pour the frefh inftruftion o'er the mind, To breathe th' enlivening fpirit, and to fix The generous purpofe... | |
 | George Wright (author of The rural Christian.) - 1788 - 326 str.
...anxiety, fear, and concern alternately take place in each other's breaft, to prove the * Delightful tafk 1 to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to fhoot ; To pour the frefti inftrui£lion o'er the mind^ To breathe the enliv'ning fpirit, and to fix The generous purpofc... | |
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Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot... 
