 | Henry Barnard - 1876 - 524 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Edward FitzGerald - 1889 - 506 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...gingerbread upon which it was figured, where all good gingerbread should go— " 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."2 The origin of this primer of our ancestors, this wellspring of English letters, is not, however,... | |
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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. 
