 | New England Historic Genealogical Society - 1865 - 134 páginas
...conceive how modestly, and yet how beautifully, the young orator would pronounce such pieces as — " You'd scarce expect one of my age To speak in public on the stage," — which his clever kinsman, Mr. David Everett, had furnished for the former school-book ; or with... | |
 | John Dudley Philbrick - 1866 - 174 páginas
...idea, have no understanding; and then, perhaps, you will get credit for having sense. THE YOUNG OEATOR. 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... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1868 - 794 páginas
...Washington. Delivered by Gen. Lee, Dec. 26, I799- 1 Memoirs of Lee. DAVID EVERETT. 1769-1813. You 'd 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. Lines written for a School Declamation.... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1868 - 806 páginas
...Washington. Delivered by Gen. Let, Dec. 26, 1799.' Memoirs of Let. DAVID EVERETT. 1769-1813. You 'd 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. Lines written for a School Declamation.... | |
 | 1871 - 310 páginas
...speak at the exhibition in such a manner. James, you may try. Do not be agitated. Speak slowly. James. You'd scarce expect one of my age To speak in public on the stage, &c. (So rapidly that it is difficult to understand what he is saying.) Teacher. Stop! stop! You speak... | |
 | Albert Deane Richardson - 1868 - 664 páginas
...years old, at the call of his father, stepped out briskly, stood up in a corner, and recited:— " You'd scarce expect one of my age, To speak in public on the stage." He rattled it off hurriedly and mechanically, but still with great readiness. Daniel Webster, in boyhood,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Thomas - 1868 - 48 páginas
...distinctly alluded to by Daniel and St. John ; and, more than all, he wrote the well-known poem, — " You'd scarce expect one of my age To speak in public on the stage." Mr. Everett removed from Boston to Amherst, NH; and his student, Mr. Shaw, went with him, and there... | |
 | 1868 - 820 páginas
...poetical speech, then something of a novelty, written by the versatile Da vid Everett, beginning : " You'd scarce expect one of my age To speak in public on the stage." Armed with this common school education, and having already displayed an aptitude for verse, after... | |
 | Horace Greeley - 1868 - 646 páginas
...Everett, 1 but who must have written them very young, if he wrote them at all) beginning, " You 'd scarce expect one of my age to speak in public on the stage," — lines which I was dragged forward to recite incessantly, till I fairly loathed them. This "Orator"... | |
 | Horace Greeley - 1868 - 652 páginas
...Everett, 1 but who nru have written them very young, if he wrote them at all) beginning, " Yoii 'd scarce expect one of my age to speak in public on the stage," — lines which I was dragged forward to recite incessantly, till I fairly loathed them. This "Orator"... | |
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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... 
