 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
 | Daniel Franklin Secomb - Amherst (N.H.) - 1883 - 1060 pages
...of support. It was while thus engaged that he wrote the oft repeated piece commencing — " You 'd scarce expect one of my age To speak in public on the stage," — which was spoken for the first time at a school exhibition ш the academy by Ephraim H. Parrar,... | |
 | United States - 1891 - 800 pages
...My voice is still for war; Gods, can a Roman Senate long debate ?" etc. Another speech was, "You'd scarce expect one of my age to speak in public on the stage." More than six decades have passed since the scenes here given transpired in the old school house. The... | |
 | Calvin Patterson - English language - 1884 - 236 pages
...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... | |
 | Pittsburgh (Pa.). First Presbyterian Church - Allegheny County (Pa.) - 1884 - 282 pages
...three-quarters of a century ago, I sometimes declaimed a little speech commencing in this way : "You'd scarce expect one of my age To speak in public on the stage." If such a thing would be unexpected in a boy scarce three feet high, how much more so must it appear... | |
 | New England - 1896 - 840 pages
...Dennie and Tyler and the rest of the Walpole coterie ever wrote. I refer to the lines beginning: " You'd scarce expect one of my age To speak in public on the stage."* This was the age of literary pseudonyms, because it was an age of literary imitation. The prose writers... | |
 | George Sumner Weaver - Dummies (Bookselling) - 1884 - 598 pages
...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... | |
 | Henry Marlin Soper - Readers - 1885 - 136 pages
...fifty guns were kenneled. God bless the flag! HEROIC MEDLEY. [Herman Page, Rofton Latin School.] You'd scarce expect one of my age To speak in public on the stage ; And, should I chance to fall below Demosthenes or Cicero, Pray view my Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend... | |
 | Literature - 1885 - 544 pages
...to see, On a lower branch is the fruit for me. LOUISE CHANDLER MOULION. A SCHOOL DECLAMATION. TOU'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... | |
 | Illustrated poems - 1885 - 370 pages
...deep, Safe in the hollow of thy hand Thy little ones would sleep. — ELLIOTT. THE INFANT ORATOR. 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... | |
 | Albert Deane Richardson - Dummies (Bookselling) - 1885 - 644 pages
...at the call of his father, stepped out briskly, stood up in a corner, and recited : — • " You'd scarce expect one of my age, To speak in public on the stage." He rattled it off hurriedly and mechanically, but still with great readiness. Daniel Webster, in. boyhood,... | |
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