In Works of Labour or of Skill I would be busy too: For Satan finds some Mischief still For idle Hands to do. Season-ticket - Seite 190von Thomas Chandler Haliburton - 1860 - 376 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Isaac Watts - 1813 - 574 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
.... 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 - 1824 - 170 Seiten
...day to read these wonders o'er, And meditate by night. VATTS. SECTION IV, On Industry. 1. How does the little busy bee Improve each shining hour; And gather honey all the day, From every pp'ning flow'r! 2. How skilfully she builds her cell! How neat she spreads the wax I *•].'. And labours... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1825 - 196 Seiten
...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 ho»ey all the day from every opening flower.'' They had a most beautiful flower-bed to gather it from... | |
| 1825 - 366 Seiten
...their out-doors work. We should all do well to imitate the bee. HYMN. dgainst Idleness and Mischief. i. How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour; And gather hooey all the day From ev'ry op'ning flow'r '. n. Flow skilfully she builds her cell ! How neat she... | |
| 1828 - 188 Seiten
...doing our duty to God and to man, And we shall be happy indeed. AGAINST IDLENESS AND MISCHIEF. How dcth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day, From ev'ry op'ning flovv'r. How skilfully she builds her cell — How neat she spreads the wax, — And... | |
| Isaac Watts - 1829 - 76 Seiten
...thy name in vain, And learn to curse and learn to swear. SONG XX. AGAINST IDLENESS AND MISCHIEF. 1 How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From ev'ry op'ning flow'r ! 2 How skilfully she builds her cell ! How neat she spreads her wax ! And labours... | |
| Easy and familiar sermons - 1830 - 176 Seiten
...works, for fear they should become like the unprofitable servant who was cast into outer darkness. How doth the little busy bee, Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From every op'ning flower. How skilfully she builds her cell, How neat she spreads her wax, And labours hard to... | |
| Isaac Watts - 1830 - 84 Seiten
...so soon ? I would not pass another day Without this work begun. 18. Against Idleness and Mischief. How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From ev'ry op'ning flower ! How skilfully she builds her cell! How neat she spreads the wax ! And labours... | |
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