 | 1883 - 812 páginas
...pole to pole, Till earth's grand family possess one soul. LINES Spoken at a school exhibition by a boy seven years old. You'd scarce expect one of my...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... | |
 | Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 páginas
...Bay pfSueay. As she lay, on that day, In the bay of Biscay, O! Ibid. DAVID EVERETT. 17C9-1813. You 'd scarce expect one of my age To speak in public on...chance to fall below Demosthenes or Cicero, Don't view mo with a critic's eye, But pass my imperfections by. Large streams from little fountains flow, Tall... | |
 | Mary Frederica P. Dunbar - 1883 - 416 páginas
...go: Their robes of glory they had first put on. SOUTHEY. January 25. January 26. 35 January 27. — If I chance to fall below Demosthenes or Cicero, Don't...with a critic's eye, But pass my imperfections by. DAVID EVERITT, 1769But rich or poor, or old or young, we shall ever be the same to each other, and... | |
 | George Sumner Weaver - 1883 - 612 páginas
...year? old, summer and winter, and learned and recited fluently little pieces; was always ready with: "You'd scarce expect one of my age to speak in public on the stage," when his father asked for it. After eleven he was too useful with a team to be spared for school, except... | |
 | 1883 - 438 páginas
...Newburyport, to be called upon. Mr. STILES. Mr. Chairman, believing in the saying of the little boy, "You'd scarce expect one of my age to speak in public on the stage," I did not bring any figures with me ; but about a year and a half ago it was suggested to us to change... | |
 | George Sumner Weaver - 1884 - 598 páginas
...year? old, summer and winter, and learned and recited fluently little pieces; was always ready with: "You'd scarce expect one of my age to speak in public on the stage," when his father asked for it. After eleven he was too useful with a team to be spared for school, except... | |
 | Calvin Patterson - 1884 - 236 páginas
...We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time. 3. You'd scarce expect one of my age To speak in public on the stage; Don't view me with a critic's eye, But pass my imperfections by. Large streams from little fountains... | |
 | University of the State of New York - 1885 - 316 páginas
...select audience, drawing ourself up to the height of the occasion, we " spoke " those immortal words. ' You'd scarce expect one of my age, To speak in public...with a critic's eye, But pass my imperfections by." etc. It was as real to us as the fact of our existence, and the plea for a kind judgment on our performance... | |
 | Illustrated poems - 1885 - 370 páginas
...Safe in the hollow of thy hand Thy little ones would sleep. THE INFANT ORATOR. YOU'D scarce exiwct one of my age To speak in public on the stage; And...with a critic's eye, But pass my imperfections by. Largo streams from little fountains flow: Tall oaks from little acorns grow : And though I now am small... | |
 | 1885 - 420 páginas
...Everett (1770-1813), the journalist, and author of those familiar schoolboy verses beginning : — "You'd scarce expect one of my age To speak in public on the stage"; and Leonard Woods, DD, the eminent theologian. This locality derives additional interest from the fact... | |
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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... 
