 | 1799 - 396 str.
...lesson of bee industry in the little hymn : How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining bour, And gather honey all the day From every opening flower...skilfully she builds her cell ! How neat she spreads her wax ! And labours hard to store it well With the sweet food she makes. In works of labour, or of... | |
 | Isaac Watts - 1807 - 410 str.
...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...hard to store it well With the sweet food she makes. lu works of labour or of skill, I would be busy too ; For Satan finds some mischief still For idle... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb - 1809 - 202 str.
...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...gather honey all the day from every opening flower." They had a most beautiful flower-bed to gather it from, quite close under the hives. I was going to... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 554 str.
...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,...opening flower ! How skilfully she builds her cell \ How neal she spreads the wax ! And labours hard to store it well VViih tiic sweet food she makes. In works... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 556 str.
...and learn to swear. SONG XX. AGAINST IDLENESS AND MISCHIEF. HOW doth the little busy bee Improve euch shining hour, And gather honey all the day From every...! How skilfully she builds her cell ! How neat she spread* the wait ! And labours hard to store it well With the sweet food she makes. In works of labour,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 558 str.
...my companions grow profane, SONc; XX. AGAINST IDLENESS AND MISCHIEF. [Jow doth the little husy hee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From every opening flower! > I low skilfully site huilds her cell! How neat she spreads the wax ! And lahmrs hard to store it... | |
 | Isaac Watts - 1813 - 574 str.
...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 str.
...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 str.
.... 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... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1816 - 236 str.
...little busy bee. And gather honey all the day, Improve each shining hour; From every op'ning flow'r ! 2. How skilfully she builds her cell!" How neat she spreads the wax ! And labours Jjard. to store it well, With the sweet food she makes. 3. In works of labour, or of skill, I would... | |
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How skilfully she builds her cell ! How neat she spreads the wax ! And labours hard to store it well With the sweet food she makes. In works of labour, or of skill, I would be busy too ; For Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do. In books,... 
