...CELIBACY—CENSORS. " Be to hi» virtues very kind, Be to his faults a little blind." MATTHEW PKIOH. " If I chance to fall below Demosthenes or Cicero, Don't...critic's eye, But pass my imperfections by. Large streams from little fountains flow, Tall oaks from little acorns grow." DAVID EVKHETT. 17G9—1813....

...To speak in public on the stage ; You'd scarce expect one of my age To speak in public on the stage; You'd scarce expect one of my age To speak in public on the stage ; You'd scarce expect one ol my age To speak in public on the stage. TBAOHBR. Stop! Don't you know...

...since, a favorite piece for declamation by the junior school-boys commenced with this couplet : " You 'd scarce expect one of my age, To speak in public on the stage." When I received the invitation of the Committee of Arrangements, to deliver an Address, at the close...

...a respectful bow. “Ladies and gentlemen,” said he, “ unaccustomed as I am to public speaking, you'd scarce expect one of my age to speak in public on a stage like this, and if I chance to fall below Demosthenes or Cicero,—which I may add is highly...

...dog walking on its hind legs. It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all." ' You'd scarce expect one of my age To speak in public on the stage." ' And like a passing thought, she fled in light away." ' The stormy March has come at last, With wind and...

...spoke. One boy, of thirteen, rather inappropriately had selected the wellknown little poem, commencing "You'd scarce expect one of my age To speak in public on the stage." "That piece is rather too young for you," said Mr. Slocum, when he had taken his seat. "I remember...

...non-participating scholars. The exercises began. A very little boy stood up and sheepishly recited, " You'd scarce expect one of my age to speak in public on the stage, etc "— accompanying himself with the painfully exact and spasmodic gestures which a machine might...

...be my last effort, I might to-day' make a sort of da capo close, and say, as I then said, u You 'd scarce expect one of my age To speak in public on the stage." But, sir, I am called up to respond to a sentiment, " The Legends of Kingston." Perhaps other towns...

...never were bought or sold, And centre there, are better than gold. Ex. 124. — A LITTLE PIECE. 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 ; A welcome here I give to each,...

...thousand rears Procerbs xi. 15. And flow as now it flows.—WORDSWORTH, The Fountain. Streams.—Yon'd scarce expect one of my age To speak in public on...Cicero, Don't view me with a critic's eye, But pass my imperfectious by. Large STREAMS from little fountaius flow, Tall oaks from little acorus grow. D. EVERETT....