...age should the child be laught to write? 10. Write as a specimen the following : "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 bieathe the euduring spirit, and to fix The...

...similar to lines from James Thomson's (1700-1748) 'Spring' in The Seasons (1726-30): 'Delightful Task! to rear the tender Thought, / To teach the young Idea how to shoot'. Mrs Bronte's copy of The Seasons (London: W. Suttaby & C. Corrall, 1803) is now in the Bronte...

...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" ("Spring," 1728 version, lines 1062-65). LETTER XLIV Page 184 "The world's dread laugh, which...

...From the home page, transfer to Users' Groups/Educational Software. 1 Introduction 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...

...plantation. S : Sabina, a friend or relative in Pittsburgh. 2. That is, music. 3. "Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, / To teach the young idea how to shoot" (James Thomson, The Seasons: Spr1ng, II. 1152-53). 4. Perhaps the traditional song, "The Bonnie...

...not sick, was never well; And died - for fear of dying! 1 1726 The Seasons 'Spring' Delightful task! shoot. 11727 The Seasons 'Spring' An elegant sufficiency. content. Retirement, rural quiet, friendship,...

..."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" (11. 1150-3). special occasions, "I find the truth to be, Handel, that an opening won't come...

...purpose of satisfying it afterwards." — Anatole France Great Qucrtes About backers "Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot." — James Thomson "The decent decent doesn't doze; He teaches standing on his toes. His student...

...man of action," and was silent. "I know." "Delightful task," as one of the cheery English poets says, "to rear the tender thought, to teach the young idea how to shoot." I almost added that the geometry teacher, if living, must be cherished by the Fatherland today,...

...Thomson. This line is virtually a cliche extolling the pleasures of child-rearing: "Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, / To teach the young idea how to shoot" (lines 1152-53). Joseph gives a humorous twist to the phrase's conventional meaning by using...