...hallowed task ! " To teach " the young idea how to shoot" is a tithe of the sacred duty : " To breathe the enlivening spirit, and to fix ' " The generous purpose in the glowing breast." And for this, to guide the infant impulses to good ; impulses which do not form ideas, but instigate...

...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 generous purpose in the glowing breast. Id. Here, by the stream, if I the night outwear, Thus spent already, how shall nature bear The- dews...

...thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot, To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, To breathe ilr enlivening spirit, and to fix The generous purpose...sudden tear Surprises often, while you look around, And nothing strikes your eye but sights of bllis, All various Nature pressing on the heart? An elegant...

...assiduous care. 5 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...to fix The generous purpose in the glowing breast. 6 Oh, speak the joy! ye, whom the sudden tear Surprises often, while you look around, And nothing strikes...

...assiduous care. 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 th' enlivening spirit, and to fix The gen'rous purpose in the glowing breast." THOMSON. One day, as my friend Jones and I were strolling...

...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 generous purpose...sudden tear Surprises often, while you look around, And nothing strikes your eye but sights of bliss, All various Nature pressing on the heart : An elegant...

...thought, To tench the young idea how to shoot, To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, To breathe the enlivening spirit, and to fix The generous purpose in the glowing breast." What an incalculable blessing to the church, — what a glorious prospect of the revival of religion,...

...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 generous purpose in the glowing breast." What an incalculable blessing to the church, — what a glorious prospect of the revival of religion,...

...mind, To breathe the enlivening spirit, and to lix The generous purpose in the glowing breast. (), poor Religion's pride, In all the pomp of method and of art. When men display And nothing strikes your eye but sights of bliss, All various nature pressing on the heart ; An elegant...

...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 generous purpose in the glowing breast. In his mode of thinking and of expressing his thought, he was original. Young was a clergyman and a...