 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...  The Principles of Argumentation - Halaman 303oleh George Pierce Baker, Henry Barrett Huntington - 1905 - 677 halamanTampilan utuh - Tentang buku ini
 | Charles Northend - 1872 - 194 halaman
...Quick 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... | |
 | Congregational Church (Sanbornton, N.H.) - 1872 - 90 halaman
...stand 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... | |
 | Francis Samuel Drake - 1872 - 1042 halaman
...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 halaman
...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... | |
 | Lurton Dunham Ingersoll - 1873 - 754 halaman
...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... | |
 | N. H. Jaffrey - 1873 - 108 halaman
...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... | |
 | James De Mille - 1873 - 366 halaman
...made a respectful bow. " Ladies and gentlemen," said he, " unaccustomed as I am to public speaking, you'd scarce expect one of my age to speak in public on a stage like this, and if I chance to fall below Demosthenes or Cicero, — which I may add is highly... | |
 | Horatio Alger - 1874 - 312 halaman
...spoke. One boy, of thirteen, rather inappropriately had selected the wellknown little poem, commencing "You'd scarce expect one of my age To speak in public on the stage." "That piece is rather too young for you," said Mr. Slocum, when he had taken his seat. "I remember... | |
 | Freemasons. Grand Lodge of Massachusetts - 1874 - 896 halaman
...Marshall responded: — MOST "WORSHIPFUL GRAND MASTER : — Unaccustomed as I am to public speaking, you'd scarce expect one of my age to speak in public on the stage. I will not attempt, at this late hour, to make a speech. I will, with j-our permission, however, allude,... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1874 - 798 halaman
...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... | |
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