| Caleb Bingham - 1811 - Страниц: 316
....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,...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... | |
| Warren Burton - 1833 - Страниц: 174
...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 - Страниц: 412
...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 - Страниц: 534
...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...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... | |
| 1840 - Страниц: 480
...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... | |
| George Merriam - 1841 - Страниц: 308
...possible—what mother would despair of her only child ?— she undertook to teach me the piece I was to speak. To speak in public on the stage, ^ • And if I chance to fall below ' You'd scarce expect one of my age Demosthenes or Cicero, Don't view me with a critic's eye, But pass... | |
| John D. Post - 1842 - Страниц: 314
...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... | |
| John Epy Lovell - 1843 - Страниц: 524
...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...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... | |
| Baynard Rush Hall - 1843 - Страниц: 352
...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 pass my... | |
| American Antiquarian Society - 1890 - Страниц: 684
...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,... | |
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