| Henry George Bohn - 1867 - 752 דפים
...t'incnmber gifts and wit, And render both for nothing fit. Butler, 1. in. 1339. To master John the English maid A horn-book gives of gingerbread ; And, that the child may learn the better, As he can name, he eats the letter. Proceeding thus with vast delight, He spells and gnaws from left... | |
| Mary Mapes Dodge - 1905 - 612 דפים
...poet Prior speaks of another sort of horn-book in his amusing lines : " To Master John the English Maid A Horn-Book gives of Ginger-bread ; And that the Child may learn the better, As he can name he eats the Letter." READING A KEY TO THE boy or girl who is OTHER THINGS. well read... | |
| 1875 - 797 דפים
...satisfaction of learning our letters after the manner described by Prior : — " To master John the English maid A Horn-book gives of gingerbread; And that the child may learn the better, As he can name, he eats the letter." To many, even a picture of the old-fashioned Horn-book— the... | |
| Henry Barnard - 1876 - 514 דפים
...far more palatable and easily digested than that described by Shenstone. To master John the English maid A hornbook gives of gingerbread ; And, that the child may learn the better, As he can name, he eats the letter. Locke was one of the earliest English writers on Education to recommend... | |
| Frederick Locker-Lampson - 1879 - 254 דפים
...mentioned different ways of breeding : Begin we in our children's reading. To Master John, the English maid A horn-book gives of ginger-bread. And, that the child may learn the better, As he can name, he eats the letter. Proceeding thus, with vast delight, He spells and gnaws from left... | |
| Frederick Locker-Lampson - 1879 - 254 דפים
...mentioned different ways of breeding : Begin we in our children's reading. To Master John, the English maid A horn-book gives of ginger-bread. And, that the child may learn the better, As he can name, he eats the letter. Proceeding thus, with vast delight, He spells and gnaws from left... | |
| Henry George Bohn - 1881 - 738 דפים
...t'incumber gifts and wit, And render both for nothing fit. Butler, 1. in. 1339. To master John the English maid A horn-book gives of gingerbread ; And, that the child may learn the better. As he can name, he eats the letter. Proceeding thus with vast delight, He spells and gnaws from left... | |
| Henry George Bohn - 1883 - 782 דפים
...both for nothing fit. 2G37 Butler: Hudibras. Pt. i. Canto iii. Line 1339 To master John, the English maid A horn-book gives of gingerbread ; And, that the child may learn the better, As he can name, he eats the letter. Proceeding thus with vast delight, He spells and gnaws from left... | |
| Edward FitzGerald - 1887 - 544 דפים
...must learn to read," said Euphranor, " in these degenerate days." ' To Master John, the Chamber-maid A Horn-book gives of Ginger-bread; And, that the Child may learn the better, As he can name, he eats the Letter.'" " Oh, how I used to wish," said Euphranor, " there had been any... | |
| Edward FitzGerald - 1889 - 628 דפים
...way of all. Do you not remember the practice of our Forefathers ? "'To Master John, the Chamber-maid A Horn-book gives of Ginger-bread; And, that the Child may learn the better, As he can name, he eats the Letter.'" " Oh, how I used to wish," said Euphranor, " there had been any... | |
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