 | G.W. Carleton & Co - 1878 - 360 páginas
...murmu 1 : ou a thousand years And flow as now it flows.—WORDSWORTH, The Fountain. Btreams.—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. D. EVERETT, Lines written for... | |
 | 1878 - 700 páginas
...visitors or school officers, or paraded on small tinted papers before their parents. The cry of the boy, " Don't view me with a critic's eye, But pass my imperfections by," is unheeded under this cruel practice. Some one has said, " A teacher should have one hlind eye;" many... | |
 | Foxborough (Mass. : Town). Centennial Executive Committee - 1879 - 284 páginas
...Friends and Fellow- (Jitizens: — The echo of the school boy's declamation of fifty years ago — “You'd scarce expect one of my age To speak in public on the stage,” comes to me to-day with the same feeling of fear now as then, only intensified, that I may fail to... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1880 - 1106 páginas
...to bear his courage up. The Grave. R. BLAIR. Besides, they always smell of bread and butter. 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. BYRON. Lines written for a School... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1880 - 1124 páginas
...courage up. Tkt Grave, K. BLAIR. Besides, they always smell of bread and butter. Manfred. BYRON. You 'd •a Love is a boy by poets styled ; Then spare the rod and spoil the child. HiuUbras, Part II. Cant.... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1881 - 892 páginas
...General Washington, December, 1799. Marihairs Life of Washington. 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,... | |
 | Lord William Pitt Lennox - 1881 - 332 páginas
...ACTING—SELIM AND HAMLET—PRECOCIOUS TALENT CENSURED—ABSURDITY OF A YOUTH APPEARING AS A GROWN-UP MAN. You'd scarce expect one of my age To speak in public...Cicero, Don't view me with a critic's eye, But pass my imperfection by. Large streams from little fountains flow, Tall oaks from little acorns grow. DAVID... | |
 | Mark Twain - 1881 - 288 páginas
...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... | |
 | Daniel Bateman Cutter - 1881 - 736 páginas
...since, a favorite piece for declamation by the junior schoolboys commenced with this couplet : " You 'd scarce expect one of my age To speak in public on the stage." / - • -y X £ J • t (y 'f f'-*-. . • We To v oar ''•vi nit'v. .-»i»' 1 • loin in 1-й vi... | |
 | Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Anna Lydia Ward - 1882 - 926 páginas
...will rarely merit to be criticised. /. ISAAC DISRAELI—Literary Character of Men of Genius. Ch. VI. You'd scarce expect one of my age To speak in public...with a critic's eye, But pass my imperfections by. g. DAVID EVEBETT—Lines lorittenfor a School Declamation. Reviewers are forever telling authors, they... | |
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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... 
