...man less fit for it. While we acknowledge the justness of Thomson's beautiful remark, " Delightful poor dear Collins? I wrote him л letter which he never answered. 1 supp !" we must consider that this dt'liglit is perceptible only by "a mind at cuse," a mind at once calm...

...education which has not been even begun. To those who ply, under such circumstances, the " delightful " task to rear the tender thought, " and teach the young idea how to " shoot," it will be easy to illustrate the immense difference between theory and practice ; between poetic imaginations,...

...of Thomson's echoed allusion in regard of intuition, we can illustrate the duty of the ' delightful task, to rear the tender thought, and teach the young idea how to shoot,' in the ' birth, parentage, and education' of the Cecilians that form this article.* The late Mr. Walker,...

...a fond Mother, when she meets with gentle spirits and fair abilities, it is, indeed, a " Delightful task to rear the tender thought, And teach the young idea how to shoot ;" but when a child has a perverse disposition and slow apprehension, few persons, but those who have...

...man less fit for it. While we acknowledge the justness of Thomson's beautiful remark, " Delightful task ! to rear the tender thought, And teach the young idea how to shoot !" we must consider1 that this delight is perceptible only by " a mind at ease," a mind at once calm...

...man less fit for it. While we acknowledge the justness of Thomson's beautiful remark, " Delightful task ! to rear the tender thought, And teach the young idea how to shoot !" we must consider 1 that this delight is perceptible only by " a mind at ease," a mind at once calm...

...less fit for it. •'? While we acknowledge the justness of Thomson's beautiful remark, l " Delightful task ! to rear the tender thought. And teach the young idea how to shoot !" we must consider1 that this delight is perceptible only by " a mind at ease," a mind at once calm...

...man less fit for it. While we acknowledge the justness of Thomson's beautiful remark, " Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, And teach the young idea how to shoot!" we must consider ' that this delight is perceptible only by " a mind at ease," a mind at once calm...

...objects in the external world to which these faculties are related. We are told that it is a ' delightful task to rear the tender thought, and teach the young idea how to shoot.' The power of doing so seems to imply some knowledge in the teacher of the direction in which the mind...

...man less fit for it. While we acknowledge the justness of Thomson's beautiful remark, " Delightful task ! to rear the tender thought, And teach the young idea how to shoot! "(!) we must consider that this delight is perceptible only by " a mind at ease," a mind at once calm...