 You'd scarce expect one of my age, To speak in public on the stage ; And if I chance to fall below Demosthenes or Cicero, Don't view me with a critic's eye, But pass my imperfections by. Large streams from little fountains flow; Tall oaks from little...  Transactions - Pàgina 140per Maryland State Bar Association - 1901Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Caleb Bingham - 1811 - 316 pàgines
....feelings of the human heart. LINES SPOKEN AT A SCHOOL-EXHIBITION, BY A LITTLE BOY %EVEN YEARS OLD. YOU'D scarce expect one of my age, To speak in public, on the stage; And if I chance to fall below Demosthenes or Cicero, Don't view me with a. critic's eye, But pass my imperfections... | |
 | Warren Burton - 1833 - 174 pàgines
...this way committed to memory that famous piece of self-puffery beginning with the lines — ' You'd scarce expect one of my age, To speak in public on the stage.' Memorus Wordwell committed to memory and parroted forth that famous speech of Pitt, in which he so... | |
 | Jacob Abbott - 1835 - 412 pàgines
...this way committed to memory that famous piece of self-puffery, beginning with the lines — ' You'd scarce expect one of my age, To speak in public on the stage.' Memorus Wordwell committed to memory, and parrotted forth, that famous speech of Pitt, in which he... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - 1836 - 534 pàgines
...more should see, And I'd come and float, dear mother, o'er thee. 3. THE INFANT ORATOR. Everett. You'd scarce expect one of my age, To speak in public on the stage ; And if I chance to fall below Demosthenes or Cicero, Don't view me with a critic's eye, But pass my imperfections... | |
 | 1840 - 480 pàgines
...upon a platform, squeaking at the top of thy lungs, and with most triumphant emphasis, — " You'd scarce expect one of my age To speak in public on the stage." I will say nothing of the unseemly and uncomfortable application of the birch, nor of the sonorous... | |
 | John D. Post - 1842 - 314 pàgines
...this way committed to memory that famous piece of self-puffery, beginning with the lines — " You'd scarce expect one of my age, ,^. To speak in public on the stage." Memorus Wordwell committed to memory and parroted forth that famous speech of Pitt, in which he so... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - 1843 - 524 pàgines
...more should see, And I'd come and float, dear mother, o'er thee. 3. THE INFANT ORATOR. Everett. You'd scarce expect one of my age, To speak in public on the stage ; And if I chance to fall below Demosthenes or Cicero, Don't view me with a critic's eye, But pass my imperfections... | |
 | Baynard Rush Hall - 1843 - 352 pàgines
...were free from all fear of Mr. Bras;, sen., and all trouble from Mr. Brass, jun. CHAPTER LII. " You'd scarce expect one of my age, To speak in public, on the stage ; And should I chance to fall below Demosthenes, or Cicero, Don't view me with a critic's eye, But pass my... | |
 | American Antiquarian Society - 1890 - 684 pàgines
...of Harvard College, the piece with which thousands of infant orators have made their debut : " You'd scarce expect one of my age To speak in public on the stage." l Everett graduated with a valedictory poem, prophetic of the future glory of his country, prophetic,... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - 1844 - 900 pàgines
...should see, And I'd come and float, dear mother, o'er thee. 3. THE INFANT ORATOR. — Everett. You'd scarce expect one of my age> To speak in public on the stage ; And if I chance to fall below Demosthenes or Cicero, Don't view me with a critic's eye, But pass my imperfections... | |
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