 | John Lauris Blake - 1833 - 264 páginas
...of all republicans, and terror through the hearts of all tyrants. Maxcy. THE INFANT ORATOR. You 'd scarce expect one of my age, To speak in public, on...And if I chance to fall below Demosthenes or Cicero, De n't view me with a critic's eye, But pass my imperfections by. Large streams from little fountains... | |
 | Jacob Abbott - 1835 - 412 páginas
...lad in 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... | |
 | Warren Burton - 1838 - 174 páginas
...lad in 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 VVordwell committed to memory and parroted forth that famous speech of Pitt, in which he so... | |
 | 1840 - 480 páginas
...perched 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 tne stage." I will say nothing of the unseemly and uncomfortable application of the birch, nor of the... | |
 | George Merriam - 1841 - 308 páginas
..." The teacher had selected that pithy little poem so appropriate for the young tyro, beginning— ' You'd scarce expect one of my age To speak in public on the stage, WK± And if I chance to fall below Demosthenes or Cicero, Don't view me with a critic's eye, But pass... | |
 | Baynard Rush Hall - 1843 - 352 páginas
...Faculty 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... | |
 | 1845 - 584 páginas
...those of your toast, I have only to say, in the language of another quite old piece of poetry :— " You'd scarce expect one of my age To speak in public on the siage; [Laughter.] And if I chance lo fall below Demosthenes or Cicero," [As Mr. Chapman pronounced... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - 1846 - 540 páginas
...no 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...critic's eye, But pass my imperfections by. Large streams from little fountains flow; Tall oaks from little acorns grow; And though I now am small and... | |
 | 1850 - 222 páginas
...composition of Mr. Everett, best known at the present time, is the little poem beginning with the lines, " You'd scarce expect one of my age To speak in public on the stage." It was written the winter previous to his entering Dartmouth College, and while he was keeping the... | |
 | James Spear Loring - 1852 - 714 páginas
...will be famous so long as a youthful orator appears on the floor of a school or an academy: " You ' J scarce expect one of my age To speak in public on...critic's eye, But pass my imperfections by: Large streams from little fountains flow ; Tall oaks from little acorns grow ; And though I now am small... | |
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LINES SPOKEN AT A SCHOOL-EXHIBITION, BY A LITTLE BOY SEVEN 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... 
