 | Caleb Bingham - 1811 - 300mga pahina
....feelings of the human heart. LINES SPOKEN AT A SCHOOL-EXHIBITION, BY A LITTLE BOY %EVEN 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... | |
 | Warren Burton - 1833 - 156mga pahina
...lad in this way committed to memory that famous piece of self-puffery beginning with the lines — ' You'd scarce expect one of my age, To speak in public on the stage.' Memorus Wordwell committed to memory and parroted forth that famous speech of Pitt, in which he so... | |
 | Jacob Abbott - 1835 - 393mga pahina
...lad in this way committed to memory that famous piece of self-puffery, beginning with the lines — ' You'd scarce expect one of my age, To speak in public on the stage.' Memorus Wordwell committed to memory, and parrotted forth, that famous speech of Pitt, in which he... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - 1836 - 491mga pahina
...no more should see, And I'd come and float, dear mother, o'er thee. 3. THE INFANT ORATOR. Everett. 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... | |
 | 1840
...perched upon a platform, squeaking at the top of thy lungs, and with most triumphant emphasis, — " You'd scarce expect one of my age To speak in public on the stage." I will say nothing of the unseemly and uncomfortable application of the birch, nor of the sonorous... | |
 | John D. Post - 1842 - 304mga pahina
...lad in this way committed to memory that famous piece of self-puffery, beginning with the lines — " You'd scarce expect one of my age, ,^. To speak in public on the stage." Memorus Wordwell committed to memory and parroted forth that famous speech of Pitt, in which he so... | |
 | Baynard Rush Hall - 1843
...Faculty were free from all fear of Mr. Bras;, sen., and all trouble from Mr. Brass, jun. CHAPTER LII. " 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, Don't view me with a critic's eye, But... | |
 | 1843
...no more should see, And I'd come and float, dear mother, o'er thee. 3. THE INFANT ORATOR. Everett. 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... | |
 | 1890
...graduate of Harvard College, the piece with which thousands of infant orators have made their debut : " You'd scarce expect one of my age To speak in public on the stage." l Everett graduated with a valedictory poem, prophetic of the future glory of his country, prophetic,... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - 1844 - 504mga pahina
...more should see, And I'd come and float, dear mother, o'er thee. 3. THE INFANT ORATOR. — Everett. 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... | |
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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... 
