 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
 | Treasury - 1869 - 474 pages
...heaven-born band ! Who fought and died in freedom's cause. Hail Columbia. DAVID EVERETT. 1796-1813. \7"OU '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... | |
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson - Naturalists - 1869 - 52 pages
...since it was whispered that he had composed for Mr. Everett's youthful recitation the verses: "You'd scarce expect one of my age To speak in public on the stage." He was, moreover, a learned antiquarian and divine, and had come to Natural History by a strictly professional... | |
 | Horace Greeley - Divorce - 1869 - 756 pages
...Edward Everett,1 but who must have written them very young, if he wrote them at all) beginning, " You 'd scarce expect one of my age to speak in public on the stage," — lines which I was dragged forward to recite incessantly, till I fairly loathed them. This " Orator... | |
 | James Grant Wilson - Literary Criticism - 1869 - 636 pages
...Everett, but which was written by a distant relative, the versatile David Everett, beginning— "You'd scarce expect one of my age To speak in public on the stage." As soon as he was taught to write, he took to rhyming. As one of his school-companions remarked to... | |
 | Massachusetts Historical Society - Massachusetts - 1869 - 586 pages
...distinctly alluded to by Daniel and St. John ; and, more than all, he wrote the well-known poem, — " You'd scarce expect one of my age To speak in public on the stage." Mr. Everett removed from Boston to Amherst, NH ; and his student, Mr. Shaw, went with him, and there... | |
 | Boston Society of Natural History - Natural history - 1869 - 458 pages
...since it was whispered that he had composed for Mr. Everett's youthful recitation the verses : "You'd scarce expect one of my age To speak in public on the stage." He was, moreover, a learncd antiquarian and divine, and had come to Natural History by a strictly professional... | |
 | Dartmouth College - 1870 - 140 pages
...ability and considerable poetic genius. He was the author of the celebrated juvenile poem : "You'd scarce expect one of my age, To speak in public on the stage ;" also of "Common Sense in Dishabille," and "Duranzel or the Persian Poet — a Tragedy." Besides... | |
 | 1870 - 292 pages
...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.... | |
 | Benjamin Woodbridge Dwight - Massachusetts - 1871 - 850 pages
...He d. Jan. 8, 1851 : she d. Nov. 20, 1848. He was the little boy for whom the piece was written. " You would scarce expect one of my age, to speak in public on the stage," and he was the first little boy that ever spoke it. The author of it was David Everett, Esq., of New Ipswich.... | |
 | 1871 - 310 pages
...the exhibition in such a manner. James, you may try. Do not be agitated. Speak slowly. James. You'd scarce expect one of my age To speak in public on the stage, &c. (So rapidly that it is difficult to understand what he is saying.) Teacher. Stop ! stop ! You speak... | |
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