 | 1799 - 396 頁
...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 頁
...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...builds her cell ! How neat she spreads the wax ! And labours hard to store it well With the sweet food she makes. lu works of labour or of skill, I would... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb - 1809 - 202 頁
...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 頁
...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 頁
...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 頁
...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 頁
...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 頁
...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 頁
.... 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 頁
...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...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 hard to store it... | |
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In works of labour, or of skill, I would be busy too ; For Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do. 
