 | Henry George Bohn - 1881 - 738 דפים
...and cheat ; An art 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...learn the better. As he can name, he eats the letter. Proceeding thus with vast delight, He spells and gnaws from left to right. Prior, Alma, 2. Love seldom... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1883 - 782 דפים
...gifts and wit, And render both for nothing fit. 2G37 Butler: Hudibras. Pt. i. Canto iii. Line 1339 To master John, the English maid A horn-book gives...learn the better, As he can name, he eats the letter. Proceeding thus with vast delight, He spells and gnaws from left to right. 2638 Prior: Alma. Canto... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1885 - 572 דפים
...englischer Erziehung heifst es: 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. Beruhml ist die Stelle, wo Prior von Popes 'Eloisa to Abelard' in so zarten, hochpoetischen Versen... | |
 | 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...the better, As he can name, he eats the Letter.'" " Oh, how I used to wish," said Euphranor, " there had been any such royal road to Grammar which one... | |
 | Matthew Prior - 1889 - 326 דפים
...slovens only are not greasy. I mention'd different ways of breeding : Begin we in our children's reading. To master John the English maid A horn-book gives...learn the better, As he can name, he eats the letter. Proceeding thus with vast delight, He spells, and gnaws, from left to right. But, show a Hebrew's hopeful... | |
 | Edward FitzGerald - 1889 - 506 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...the better, As he can name, he eats the Letter."' "Oh, how I used to wish," said Euphranor, "there had been any such royal road to Grammar which one... | |
 | Edward FitzGerald - 1889 - 626 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...the better, As he can name, he eats the Letter.'" " Oh, how I used to wish," said Euphranor, " there had been any such royal road to Grammar which one... | |
 | British Archaeological Association - 1891 - 416 דפים
...allowed to secure the gingerbread upon which it was figured, where all good gingerbread should go— " To Master John, the English maid A hornbook gives...child may learn the better, As he can name he eats the letter."2 The origin of this primer of our ancestors, this wellspring of English letters, is not, however,... | |
 | William Andrews - 1892 - 290 דפים
...the general reader than the foregoing quotations : — " 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." The juveniles, it appears, had their horn-books suspended from the girdle, often learning their lessons... | |
 | William Jay Youmans - 1897 - 902 דפים
...Muter John the English Maid A Hornbook gives of gingerbread ; And that the Child may learn the bettar As he can name, he eats the Letter. Hornbooks may...Children " and the works of Jan Steen and Van Ostade. Valne of " Useless " Research.— The report of the British Association's committee on the establishment... | |
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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. 
