 | Henry George Bohn - 1881 - 738 pages
...tir'd limbs and lay the head Down to our own delightful bed. James Montgomery. So work the honey-bees ; Creatures, that by a rule in nature, teach. The art of order to a peopled kingdom. Sh. Hen. v. I. '2. The careful insect 'midst his works I view, Now from the flowers exhaust the fragrant... | |
 | Edward Bartrum - 1881 - 188 pages
...for the season, the workers fall upon, and destroy them all. THE WORKEHS. " So work the honey-bees, Creatures that by a rule in nature, teach The art of order to a peopled kingdom." These constitute the great bulk of every prosperous colony of bees. It is by their labors that the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1882 - 206 pages
...instead of pretty. But Shakespeare repeatedly uses pretty with the sense of jit, apt, or suitable. P. 52. Creatures that, by a rule in Nature, teach The art of order to a peopled kingdom. — So Pope and Collier's second folio. The old text reads "The Act of Order." To teach an act is rather... | |
 | 1883 - 502 pages
...beginning; so that Virgil says they pass their Jives beneath " unchangeable laws." Shakespeare calls them Creatures that by a rule in nature teach The art of order to a peopled kingdom. Virgil has sung of the bees in fuller strains than any other poet, and has interwoven fact, theory,... | |
 | Craufurd Tait Ramage - 1884 - 690 pages
...and the fragrant honey is redolent of thyme. Shakespeare (" Henry V.," act i. sc. 2) says:— " So work the honey bees; Creatures, that by a rule in...peopled kingdom. They have a king, and officers of sorts; Where some, like magistrates, correct at home; Others, like merehants, venture trade abroad... | |
 | Craufurd Tait Ramage - 1884 - 694 pages
...and the fragrant honey is redolent of thyme. Shakespeare (" Henry V.," act i. sc. 2) says:— " So work the honey bees; Creatures, that by a rule in...peopled kingdom. They have a king, and officers of sorts; Where some, like magistrates, correct at home; Others, like merchants, venture trade abroad... | |
 | Joseph Hassell - 1884 - 194 pages
...description of the economy of a hive will, we think, be a fitting close to this lesson, — 1 ' So work the honey bees ; Creatures that, by a rule in...The art of order to a peopled kingdom. They have a queen, and officers of sorts, Where some, like magistrates, correct at home ; Others, like merchants,... | |
 | 1886 - 668 pages
...the lancet, the saw, the auger, and the trowel — it is in this marvellous group that we find — ' Creatures that, by a rule in nature, teach The art of order to a peopled kingdom.' Happily for larger, if not wiser, creatures than themselves, the Hymenoptera contain comparatively... | |
 | John Miller Dow Meiklejohn - 1886 - 428 pages
...the nominative case. Thus we find in Shakespeare's Henry V., i. 2. 188 :— " So work the honey-bees, Creatures that by a rule in Nature teach The art of order to a peopled kingdom." Here bees is the nominative to work ; creatures is in apposition with bees, and hence is also in the... | |
 | John Miller Dow Meiklejohn - 1887 - 494 pages
...language. EXERCISE XLVL Give full particulars of all nominatives in the following quotations : — (a) " So work the honey bees, Creatures that by a rule in nature teach The art of order to a peopled kingdom." — Shakespeare. (6) "Clatters each plank and swinging chain." — Scott. (c) "A white wall is the... | |
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Therefore doth heaven divide The state of man in divers functions, Setting endeavour in continual motion ; To which is fixed, as an aim or butt, Obedience : for so work the honey bees, Creatures that by a rule in nature teach The art of order to a peopled... 
