| William Charles Cotton - 1842 - 434 pągines
...set tiattj Ht fnntr in stoeetnesse. ECCLESIASTICUS xi. 3. Translation, at. 1603. PRELUDE OF MOTTOES. How doth the little busy Bee Improve each shining...honey all the day From every opening flower ! How skilfully she builds her cell ! How neat she spreads the wax 1 And labours hard to store it well With... | |
| Juvenile miscellany - 1842 - 368 pągines
...boys, come! We must leave Sir Gerold until this evening. BEES, AND THE INTERNAL STRUCTURE OF A HIVE. " How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining...gather honey all the day, From every opening flower." " MY dear Mary," said Mrs. Graham to her little daughter, who, instead of learning her lesson, had... | |
| 1856 - 1026 pągines
...reading about the bees in one of my little books, and I have been getting off those pretty verses — ' How doth the little busy bee improve each shining...gather honey all the day from every opening flower ;' and I thought I should like to see the little creatures at work at their hives when they go in and... | |
| 1853 - 892 pągines
...As busy as a bee." Most of us have had this saying quoted to us., and learnt the hymn beginning— " How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From ev'ry opening flower I" But why say " as busy as a bee ?" We have seen how hard caterpillars work,... | |
| John Ely - 1843 - 156 pągines
...and went to school and learned his lesson very well, and the master said he was a very good boy. 6. How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining...gather honey all the day, From every opening flower ! With how much art she builds her cell ! How neat she spreads the wax ! And labours hard to store... | |
| Lyman Cobb - 1843 - 158 pągines
...sincere. Skil ful ly (skiI' f&l MJ), ad. with skill. READING LESSON XXIV. The Busy Bee. 1. How does the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And...gather honey all the day From every opening flower ! 2. How skilfully she builds her cell, How neat she spreads her wax, And labors hard to store it well... | |
| Bristol Sunday-school union - 1844 - 236 pągines
...whom I love. 6 If my companions grow profane, 20 CM BUSY BEE. Against Idleness and Mischief. 1 UOW doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From every op'ning flower ! 2 How skilfully she builds her cell, How neat she spreads the wax ; And labours hard... | |
| Lindley Murray, Israel Alger (Jun.) - 1846 - 180 pągines
...delight, By day to read these wonders o'er, And meditate by night SECTION IV. On Industry. \. How doe? the little busy* bee Improve each shi'ning hour ; And gather honey all the day, From every op'ning flower 2. How skilfully she builds her cell ! How neat she spreads the wax I And labours hard... | |
| 1847 - 72 pągines
...sometimes hear him singing over those lines of Watts, which he had probably learnt in his youth — « How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining...honey all the day From every opening flower ! " How skilfully she builds her cell ! How neat she spreads her wax ! And labors hard to store it well With... | |
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