 | Scott Camazine - 2003 - 558 Seiten
...the honey-storage combs. (Illustration © BillRistine 1998) 12 Nectar Source Selection by Honey Bees How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining...gather honey all the day From every opening flower! — Isaac Watts, Divine Songs On a typical summer's day a colony of honey bees dispatches some ten... | |
 | Roy Porter - 2000 - 772 Seiten
...Literature and Bourgeois Ideology', p. 26. Isaac Watts wrote Against Idleness and Mischief (1715): How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining...gather honey all the day From every opening flower! Anthologized in Roger Lonsdale (ed.), The New Oxford Book of Eighteenth-century Verse (1984), p. 74.... | |
 | Roy Porter - 2000 - 776 Seiten
...26. Isaac Watts wrote Aga1nst Idleness and M1sch1ef (1715): How doth the little busy bee Improvr rach shining hour, And gather honey all the day From every opening flower! Anthologized in Roger Lonsdale (ed.), The New Oxford Book of Eighteenth-century Verse (1984), p. 74.... | |
 | Joseph Hillis Miller - 2002 - 184 Seiten
...Idleness and Mischief" (1715). The original poem sums up perfectly the ethos of The Swiss Family Robinson: How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining...gather honey all the day From every opening flower! . . . In works of labour or of skill, I would be busy too; For Satan finds some mischief still For... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 2002 - 1258 Seiten
...proverbially an indefatigable worker. See Isaac Watts's popular hymn "Against Idleness and Mischief (1715): "How doth the little busy bee / Improve each shining...gather honey all the day / From every opening flower." Carlyle's allusion is ironic, of course, for he considers the Biblion Eroticon to be the work of the... | |
 | Brandon Marie Miller - 2002 - 80 Seiten
...rc& upontlu.Loxxf -DA? or* a.&J)rirn>n& football on the Sabbath. J z AGAINST IDLENESS AND MISCHIEF How doth the little busy Bee Improve each shining...gather Honey all the day From every opening Flower! . . . In Works of Labour or of Skill I would be busy too: For Satan finds some Mischief still For idle... | |
 | Des MacHale - 2003 - 324 Seiten
...It is impossible to combine the heating of milk with any other pursuit whatever. -HF ELLIS How does the little busy bee improve each shining hour and...gather honey all the day from every opening flower? Well, he does not. He spends most of the day in buzzing and aimless acrobatics, and gets about a fifth... | |
 | Attilio Favorini, Lynne Conner - 2003 - 108 Seiten
...RACHEL. Where am I? Who in the world am I? I'll try and see if I know all the things I used to know. How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day On (hesitates, confused) every golden scale, No, those are not the right words! (Beat, as RACHEL/ALICE... | |
 | Tom Burns, S. B. Saul - 2001 - 118 Seiten
...employment for idle hands'. The children's hymns urged the virtues of industry:* How doth the busy little bee Improve each shining hour And gather honey all the day From every opening flower. 1 . The substance of two addresses on laying the foundation stone of the Stockport Sunday School (Stockport,... | |
 | Moira Davison Reynolds - 2004 - 166 Seiten
...which should probably be taken on its word. Chapter 14 Virginia Apgar Anesthesiologist and Teratologist How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour. And gather honey all the day From each opening flower! — Isaac Watts Virginia Apgar was an industrious anesthesiologist whose contributions... | |
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