 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 by. Large streams from little fountains flow; Tall oaks from little...  Transactions - Page 140by Maryland State Bar Association - 1901Full view - About this book
 | Fruit-culture - 1845 - 584 pages
...of your toast, I have only to say, in the language of another quite old piece of poetry :— " You'd scarce expect one of my age To speak in public on the siage; [Laughter.] And if I chance lo fall below Demosthenes or Cicero," [As Mr. Chapman pronounced... | |
 | 1849 - 396 pages
...spirits, to whom he has given his written and perfect law. — Juv. Miscellany. The Child's Oration. 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... | |
 | Charles Northend - Readers (Primary) - 1866 - 172 pages
...and faithful as he was, and they will always have friends. MET II. POETRY. THE YOUNG ORATO . You 'D scarce expect one of my age To speak in public on the stage ; And if 1 chance to fail below Demosthenes or Cicero, Don't view me with a critic's eye, But pass my imperfections... | |
 | Edward Everett - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1859 - 872 pages
...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... | |
 | 1801 - 206 pages
...of Mr. Everett, best known at the present time, is the little poem beginning with the lines, " You'd scarce expect one of my age To speak in public on the stage." It was written the winter previous to his entering Dartmouth College, and while he was keeping the... | |
 | James Spear Loring - Boston (Mass.) - 1852 - 762 pages
...will be famous so long as a youthful orator appears on the floor of a school or an academy : " 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, Bat pass my imperfections... | |
 | Samuel Melancthon Worcester - 1852 - 496 pages
...Edward Everett, who was the author of the declamation, so familiar to all school-boys : . - " You'd scarce expect one of my age To speak in public on the stage," &c. This was spoken the first time by EH Farrar, when seven years old, and for whom it was expressly... | |
 | Warren Burton - Education - 1852 - 376 pages
...this way committed to memory that famous piece of self-puffery beginning with the ilines, — " You'd scarce expect one of my age To speak in public on the stage." Memorus Wordvvell committed to memory and parroted forth that famous speech of Pitt, in which ihe so... | |
 | Frederic Kidder, Augustus Addison Gould - New Ipswich (N.H.) - 1852 - 544 pages
...that effusion was written ; and, immediately rising, merely repeated the first two lines : ' You 'd scarce expect one of my age To speak in public on the stage — ' which excited the risibles of the audience. We cannot be parted from these pleasant reminiscences... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - Children - 1853 - 344 pages
...teacher had selected that + pithy little poem, so appropriate for the young tyro, beginning — '"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, Do n't view me with a critic's eye, But pass my imperfections... | |
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