 | Isaac Watts - 1807 - 410 pages
...sinners take thy name in vain, And Irani 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... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb - 1809 - 202 pages
...prettily. Mamma said, " Have you nothing to say to these pretty bees, Louisa ?" Then I said to them, " How doth the little busy bee improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day from every opening flower." They had a most beautiful flower-bed to gather it from, quite close under the... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 554 pages
...name in vain, And learn to curse, and learn to swear. SONG XX. AGAINST IDLENESS AND MISCHIEF. [low 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 neal she spreads the wax ! And labours... | |
 | Isaac Watts - 1813 - 574 pages
...thy name in vain, And learn to curse, and learn to swear. SONG XX. Against Idleness and Mwchicf. 1 HOW doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day Fi-om ev'ryop'niiig flower! i How skilfully she builds her cell ! How neat she spreads the wax ! And... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb - 1814 - 194 pages
...prettily. Mamma said, " have you nothing to say to these pretty bees, Louisa ?" Then I said to them, "How doth the little busy bee improve each shining hour, And gather honey all th« day from every opening flower." They had a most beautiful flotarer-bed to gather it from, quite... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1814 - 234 pages
.... Then pursue good sense and duty, Evergrcens, which ne'er decay! SECTION VI. ON INDUSTRY. How does the little busy bee Improve each shining hour; And gather honey all the dayi From ev'ry op'ning flow'r! COTTOS. . "*, *-• •• -• '" * " How skilfully she builds her... | |
 | John Ely - 1817 - 124 pages
...and wen'to school and learned his lessen very well, and the master said he was a very good boy. 6. How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day, From every opening flower ! With how much art she builds her ceS How neat she spreads the wax ! And labours... | |
 | 1820 - 310 pages
...take thy name in vain, And learn to curse, and learn to swear SONG XX. Jlgainst 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 her wax ! And labours... | |
 | William Jillard Hort - 1822 - 186 pages
...their little towns; placing them in hollow trees or the cavities of rocks. LESSON FROM »'IIK 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 labours... | |
 | Isaac Watts - 1824 - 36 pages
...grow to ripef age, Our hearts may all be love. DIVINE SOXGS. 19 SONG X. Against Idleness andMisciiief. How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather, honey all the day, From every opening flower ! £0 DIVINE SONGS. And labours hard to store it well, With the sweet food she... | |
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How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From every opening flower! 
