 | John Bartlett - 1870 - 802 páginas
...Washington. Delivered by Gen. Lee, Dec. 26, 1799.' 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.... | |
 | Edward Everett - 1870 - 908 páginas
...by a distant relative and namesake of mine, and, if I mistake not, before I was born. It begins,— “You'd scarce expect one of my age To speak in public on the stage.” This place and this day belong to the young; and after what we have heard from them, I need not say... | |
 | 1870 - 292 páginas
...the district school house, when he stood up before parents, friends and fellow schoolmates to repeat "You'd scarce expect one of my age To speak in public on the stage." These germs of intellectual greatness and brilliancy are now folded quiescent in our school rooms.... | |
 | Connecticut. Board of Education - 1870 - 310 páginas
...almost incalculable, for it soothes the cares, softens the sorrows, and calms the passions of mankind. " You'd scarce expect one of my age To speak in public on the stage." These germs of intellectual greatness and brilliancy are now folded quiescent in our school rooms.... | |
 | John Neal - 1870 - 290 páginas
...in the following fashion : "Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep; if I should chance to fall below Demosthenes or Cicero, don't view me with a cricket's eye, but " " Hush, hush I " said his mother; " O hush, my boy ! that's no part of the prayer."... | |
 | Oliver Optic - 1871 - 1018 páginas
...our young friends sends us, and the mate to it we will put into a "pigeonhole " till another time. You'd scarce expect one of my age To speak in public on the stage; It takes three things to make a row, For my old uncle told me so : Л welcome here I give to each,... | |
 | English High School (Boston, Mass.) - 1871 - 138 páginas
...when a lad, that those verses were composed which are familiar to all now, both old and young. "You "d scarce expect one of my age, To speak in public on the stage," etc. They were written for him by Mr. David Everett, a relative of Edward Everett. Subsequently, in... | |
 | Simon Kerl - 1869 - 422 páginas
...and a very slight touch may break off a tender bud. There is much good sense in the couplet, — " Don't view me with a critic's eye, But pass my imperfections by." LESSON XLV. 1. Describe your native village, or tlie vicinity of your home* 1. Locality and boundary.... | |
 | Charles Northend - 1872 - 194 páginas
...Quick and treacherous sands of sin. Ah! that thou could'st know thy joy The Little Speaker.—No. 1. 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... | |
 | Oliver Optic - 1873 - 948 páginas
...straightens up, then commences the little speeck im a monotonous tone, making very awkward gestures.")' " 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." {Stammers and repeats.) " Tall... | |
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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... 
