 | Horace Greeley - 1868 - 650 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 - 650 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... | |
 | Treasury - 1869 - 474 páginas
...heaven-born band ! Who fought and died in freedom's cause. Hail Columbia. DAVID EVERETT. 1796-1813. A/OU'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... | |
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson - 1869 - 52 páginas
...too, since it was whispered that he had composed for Mr. Everett's youthful recitation the verses: "You'd scarce expect one of my age To speak in public on the stage." He was, moreover, a learned antiquarian and divine, and had come to Natural History by a strictly professional... | |
 | James Grant Wilson - 1869 - 636 páginas
...Edward Everett, but which was written by a distant relative, the versatile David Everett, beginning— " You'd scarce expect one of my age To speak in public on the stage." As soon as he was taught to write, he took to rhyming. As one of his school-companions remarked to... | |
 | James Grant Wilson - 1869 - 636 páginas
...Edward Everett, but which was written by a distant relative, the versatile David Everett, beginning— "You'd scarce expect one of my age To speak in public on the stage." As soon as he was taught to write, he took to rhyming. As one of his school-companions remarked to... | |
 | 1869 - 420 páginas
...the subject of the "Choice of the Ministry as a Profession." The celebrated juvenile poem commencing "You'd scarce expect one of my age To speak in public on the stage," was written by David Everett of the class of 1795, just previous to Ivvhentering college. Hon. EA Rollins,... | |
 | Horace Greeley - 1869 - 662 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 - 1869 - 684 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 - 1869 - 642 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... | |
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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... 
