 | Jane Austen - 1998 - 372 Seiten
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 | Lisa Birnbach, Ann Hodgman, Patricia Marx - 2000 - 326 Seiten
...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... | |
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 | J.F. Powers - 2000 - 596 Seiten
...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,... | |
 | Edward Lanzer Joseph - 2001 - 588 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Elbert Hubbard - 2003 - 672 Seiten
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Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot... 
