| Caleb Bingham - 1811 - 316 halaman
...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 imperfections by. Large streams from little fountains flow; Tall oaks from little acorns grow:... | |
| John Epy Lovell - 1836 - 534 halaman
...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 my imperfections by. Large streams from little fountains flow; Tall oaks from little acorns grow... | |
| John Epy Lovell - 1843 - 524 halaman
...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 my imperfections by. Large streams from little fountains flow; Tall oaks from little acorns grow... | |
| Baynard Rush Hall - 1843 - 352 halaman
...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 pass my imperfections by." A GENERAL truce and cessation of arms had taken place, and our Faculty began... | |
| John Epy Lovell - 1844 - 900 halaman
...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 my imperfections by. Large streams from little fountains flow ; Tall oaks from little acorns grow... | |
| 1849 - 396 halaman
...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 by. Large streams from little fountains flow ; Tall oaks from little acorns grow... | |
| Charles Northend - 1866 - 172 halaman
...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 by. Large streams from little fountains flow ; Tall oaks from little acorns grow... | |
| James Spear Loring - 1852 - 720 halaman
...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, But pass my imperfections by: Large streams from little fountains flow ; Tall oaks from little acorns grow... | |
| Frederic Kidder, Augustus Addison Gould - 1852 - 544 halaman
...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, But pass my imperfections by. Large streams from little fountains 0ow; Tall oaks from little acorns grow;... | |
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