...to rivet on the heart its inward and spiritual meaning. In the language of Thomson it was her— " Delightful task to rear the tender thought, And teach the young idea how to shoot;" And stamp upon the memory a sacred clue to find the Crucified. In the course of a few years her father...

...profession. He had no sympathy with the sentiment so happily expressed by the Poet of the Seasons — 1 Delightful task to rear the tender thought, And teach the young idea how to shoot.' At this school, as might have been expected, Charles acquired but little. At his second — the grammar-school...

...profession. He had no sympathy with the sentiment so happily expressed by the Poet of the Seasons — ' Delightful task to rear the tender thought, And teach the young idea how to shoot.' At this school, as might have been expected, Charles' acquired but little. At his second — the grammar-school...

...can most cordially respond to the poet, in that beautiful sentiment too seldom fully realized : — " Delightful task ! to rear the tender thought. And teach the young idea how to shoot, To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, To breathe the enlivening spirit, and to tin The generous...

...faculties.—capable of being appropriated to the highest purposes? .. Delightful taak !" said the poet, —to rear the tender thought, And teach the young idea how to shoot!" However, men say that this is a poetical idea. They say it is a hard matter for a teacher to devoto...

...respond to the poet, in that beautiful sentiment too seldom fully realized : — " Delightful task 1 to rear the tender thought, And teach the young idea how to shoot, To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, To breathe tho enlivening spirit, and to fix The generous...

...to very high respect from the community, as Johnson himself often maintained. Yet I am of opinion, that the greatest abilities are not only not required...acknowledge the justness of Thomson's beautiful remark, — thinking on her with some particular combinations. I have recalled her to my mind of late less...

...hanging on the sweet prattler's lips, delighted with a word half-formed, she counted it a pleasant task, " to rear the tender thought, And teach the young idea how to shoot." we must adore Him, who so nicely touched the mother's feelings, that she did not (as she might have done) forget...

...That bids me to my bride? I come, I come, oh ! Mary dear, To lay me by thy side ! THE EXAMINATION. Delightful task ! to rear the tender thought, And teach the young idea how to shoot. — THOMSON. EARLY one morning, in the middle of December, I found myself in a cold, dimly-lighted...

...the bestowal of this instruction with the pronunciation of a wellknown couplet, which runs thus: " Delightful task, to rear the tender thought, And teach the young idea how to shoot" — on the subject of human freedom; yet I do not consider the present opportunity the best one which...