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
| George Rhett Cathcart - Recitations - 1871 - 200 pages
...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,... | |
| Oliver Optic - 1871 - 1018 pages
...young friends sends us, and the mate to it we will put into a "pigeonhole " till another time. 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,... | |
| English High School (Boston, Mass.) - 1871 - 138 pages
...when a lad, that those verses were composed which are familiar to all now, both old and young. "You "d scarce expect one of my age, To speak in public on the stage," etc. They were written for him by Mr. David Everett, a relative of Edward Everett. Subsequently, in... | |
| Charles Northend - 1872 - 194 pages
...and treacherous sands of sin. Ah! that thou could'st know thy joy The Little Speaker.—No. 1. 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... | |
| Francis Samuel Drake - America - 1872 - 1042 pages
...teaching a grammar school at N. Ipswich, he wrote the famous juvenile recitation commencing, — " You'd scarce expect one of my age To speak In public on the stage." He studied law in Boston, and wrote for Russell's Gazette and Dennie's farmer's Museum. His prose papers,... | |
| James Parton - 1872 - 590 pages
...inhabitants of this nation have at some period of their lives been able to repeat, beginning, " Yon M scarce expect one of my age To speak in public on the stage." One of his schoolfellows has a vivid remembrance of Horace's reciting this piece before the whole school... | |
| Congregational Church (Sanbornton, N.H.) - 1872 - 90 pages
...with the sprightliness of youth, amid the applause of the audience and humorously remarked: " You'd scarce expect one of my age To speak in public on the stage," (renewed applause) alluding to the fact that this was the first time he had ever attempted to make... | |
| N. H. Jaffrey - Jaffrey (N.H.) - 1873 - 108 pages
...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... | |
| Lurton Dunham Ingersoll - History - 1873 - 754 pages
...than three years old, and before he could speak plainly, he declaimed the verses beginning, " You 'd scarce expect one of my age To speak in public on the stage," so often that he became heartily sick of the lines, and never again became reconciled to them dnring... | |
| John Bartlett - Quotations - 1874 - 798 pages
...Washington. Delivered by Gen. Lee, Dec. 26, 1799.l Memoirs of Lee. DAVID EVERETT. 1769-1813. 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... | |
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