| Henry George Bohn - 1867 - 752 страници
...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...can name, he eats the letter. Proceeding thus with vast delight, He spells and gnaws from left to right. Prior, Alma, 2. Love seldom haunts the breast... | |
| Mary Mapes Dodge - 1905 - 612 страници
...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...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 will find on visiting an art gallery... | |
| 1875 - 797 страници
...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...learn the better, As he can name, he eats the letter." To many, even a picture of the old-fashioned Horn-book— the Primer of our ancestors, consisting of... | |
| Henry Barnard - 1876 - 514 страници
...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...learn the better, As he can name, he eats the letter. Locke was one of the earliest English writers on Education to recommend the abandonment of hornbooks,... | |
| Henry Barnard - 1876 - 524 страници
...palatable and easily digested than that described by Shenstone. To master John the English maid A horabook 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 the abandonment of horubooks,... | |
| Frederick Locker-Lampson - 1879 - 254 страници
...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...can name, he eats the letter. Proceeding thus, with vast delight, He spells and gnaws from left to right? Matthew Prior. #*# These extracts are very pleasant,... | |
| Frederick Locker-Lampson - 1879 - 254 страници
...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...can name, he eats the letter. Proceeding thus, with vast delight, He spells and gnaws from left to right.' Matthew Prior. **)<. These extracts are very... | |
| Henry George Bohn - 1881 - 738 страници
...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...can name, he eats the letter. Proceeding thus with vast delight, He spells and gnaws from left to right. Prior, Alma, 2. Love seldom haunts the breast... | |
| Henry George Bohn - 1883 - 782 страници
...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...can name, he eats the letter. Proceeding thus with vast delight, He spells and gnaws from left to right. 2638 Prior: Alma. Canto li. Line 463. Whence... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1885 - 572 страници
...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... | |
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