 | Isaac Watts - 1865 - 104 էջ
...take thy name in vain, And learn to curse, and learn to swear. AGAINST IDLENESS AND MISCHIEF. HOW doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From every opening flower ! How skilfully she builds her cell ! How neat she spreads the wax ! And labours hard... | |
 | John Dudley Philbrick - 1866 - 174 էջ
...amiss, However pleasant it may be, I'll always try to think of this, — THE LITTLE BUSY BEE. HOW doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day, From every opening flower ! How skilfully she builds her cell ! How neat she spreads her wax, And labors hard... | |
 | Barton Levi St Armand - 1986 - 388 էջ
...the Protestant ethic embedded obdurately in such rhymes as "Against Idleness and Mischief: How doth the little busy bee, Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From every opening flower! In works of labour or of skill, I would be busy too; For Satan finds some mischief... | |
 | Don Gifford, Robert J. Seidman - 1988 - 704 էջ
...the shining hour - From Isaac Watts's (1674-1748) hymn "Against Idleness." First stanza: "How doth the little busy bee / Improve each shining hour, / And gather honey all the day / From every opening flower!" 16.1228-29 (647:3-4). Mr Philip Beaufoy See 4.502-3n. 16.1232 (647:8). *The pink edition... | |
 | 1926 - 910 էջ
...apply them. Medina, Ohio. THE WORK-DAY OF THE BEE Every school child has learned the rhyme How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From every opening flower ? To the practical beekeeper this is an important question which he frequently attempts... | |
 | Rachel Fordyce, Carla Marello - 1994 - 304 էջ
...text refers to a nursery rhyme by Isaac Watts, reproductions are related to the following stanzas: How does the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day, From every opening flower! How skillfully she builds her cell! How neat she spreads the wax! And labours hard... | |
 | Kasey Michaels - 1994 - 372 էջ
...on, recite for me." He pressed a kiss against her temple, thanked her, and then quoted: " 'How doth the little busy bee improve each shining hour, and gather honey all the day from every opening flower!' That was Isaac somebody-or-other, I disremember at the moment. But that's what you... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1995 - 612 էջ
...doth . . . at last' Isaac Watts (1674-1748), 'Against Idleness and Mischief, Divine Songs : 'How doth the little busy bee/ Improve each shining hour, /And gather honey all the day/From every opening flower!' 151 (p. 233) come with post-horses use a series of horses, the fastest... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1996 - 876 էջ
...delight, By day to read these wonders o'er, And meditate by nighty WATTS. SECTION IV. On Industry.. How does the little busy bee Improve each shining hour ;. And gather honey all the day, From ev'ry op'ning flow'r ! How skilfully she builds her cell ! How neat, she spreads the wax ! And labours... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 էջ
...ROBERT LOWELL, (1917-1977) US poet. Mr. Edwards and the Spider, st. 1 , Poems Í938-/949(1950). How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From every opening flower! ISAAC WATTS, (1674-1748) British hymn-writer. Against Idleness and Mischief, st. 1... | |
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How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From every opening flower! 
