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...many poems that were meant to teach children to be diligent and hard-working. The poem begins:"How doth the little busy bee / Improve each shining hour,...And gather honey all the day / From every opening Jlower!" How doth the little crocodile Improve his shining tail, And pour the waters of the Nile On...

...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...

...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....

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...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....

...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...

...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...