 | James Fenimore Cooper - 1860 - 468 pàgines
...who have been selected to enjoy it. Jane, 1848 THE OAK OPENINGS. CHAPTER I. How doth the little lusy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day, From every opening flower. Watts' Hymns for Children. WE have heard of those who fancied that they beheld a signal instance of... | |
 | William Hawkins - 1861 - 710 pàgines
...what are the lessons afforded to us by the bees 1 Joseph. — They remind me of Dr. Watts' hymn — " How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining...gather honey all the day From every opening flower." Nancy. — They, in fact, use the gifts which their Maker and ours has given them, and they each use... | |
 | Barton Levi St Armand - 1986 - 388 pàgines
...Divine Songs for Children, with the Protestant ethic embedded obdurately in such rhymes as "Against Idleness and Mischief: How doth the little busy bee,...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 still For idle hands... | |
 | Don Gifford, Robert J. Seidman - 1988 - 704 pàgines
...To improve the shining hour - From Isaac Watts's (1674-1748) hymn "Against Idleness." First stanza: "How doth the little busy bee / Improve each shining...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 extra sporting... | |
 | 1926 - 910 pàgines
...success, then 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...gather honey all the day From every opening flower ? To the practical beekeeper this is an important question which he frequently attempts f> answer by... | |
 | Kasey Michaels - 1994 - 372 pàgines
...Johnny. Go 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...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 are, little Sarah,... | |
 | Rachel Fordyce, Carla Marello - 1994 - 304 pàgines
...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 to store it well... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1995 - 612 pàgines
...232) 'Haw 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 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...barn. 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...gather honey all the day From every opening flower! ISAAC WATTS, (1674-1748) British hymn-writer. Against Idleness and Mischief, st. 1 , Divine Songs for... | |
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How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From every opening flower! 
