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
| Daniel Franklin Secomb - 1883 - 1060 halaman
...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,... | |
| 1891 - 800 halaman
...with, " 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... | |
| Pittsburgh (Pa.). First Presbyterian Church - 1884 - 282 halaman
...nearly 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... | |
| 1896 - 838 halaman
...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... | |
| Calvin Patterson - 1884 - 236 halaman
...We 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... | |
| Haverford College - 1885 - 182 halaman
...this evening for myself. I can only add, in the words of the schoolboy's oft repeated declamation : "You'd scarce expect one of my age To speak in public on the stage." When I was here at the Semi-Centennial I was struck with the great age of those then present. They... | |
| Henry Marlin Soper - 1885 - 136 halaman
...where 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,... | |
| Albert Deane Richardson - 1885 - 644 halaman
...old, 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,... | |
| William Makepeace Thayer - 1885 - 410 halaman
...stepping into the middle of the room, making his bow, and reciting, with much force and fluency,—- " You'd scarce expect one of my age To speak in public on the stage." Ulysses was nine or ten years of age when his father invited a nephew in Canada to a home in his family,... | |
| Illustrated poems - 1885 - 370 halaman
...the 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... | |
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