 | Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Anna Lydia Ward - 1882 - Страниц: 926
...will rarely merit to be criticised. /. ISAAC DISRAELI— Literary Character r/ Men of Genius. Ch. VI. You'd scarce expect one of my age To speak in public on the stage; And if I chance to full below Demosthenes or Cicero, Don't view me with a critic's eye, But pass my imperfections by.... | |
 | Landon Taylor - 1883 - Страниц: 540
...or two of the verses: "Large streams from little fountains flow, Tall oaks from little acorns grow. 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 paxs my imperfections by.' ' Here you have a part... | |
 | Familiar quotations - 1883 - Страниц: 942
...pf B'ucay. As she lay, on that day, In the bay of Biscay, O ! Ibid. DAVID EVERETT. 17G9-1813. You 'd scarce expect one of my age To speak in public on...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... | |
 | George Sumner Weaver - 1883 - Страниц: 612
...years old, summer and winter, and learned and recited fluently little pieces; was always ready with : "You'd scarce expect one of my age to speak in public on the stage," when his father asked for it. After eleven he was too useful with a team to be spared for school, except... | |
 | Daniel Franklin Secomb - 1883 - Страниц: 1060
...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,... | |
 | Pittsburgh (Pa.). First Presbyterian Church - 1884 - Страниц: 282
...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... | |
 | 1891 - Страниц: 800
...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... | |
 | Calvin Patterson - 1884 - Страниц: 236
...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... | |
 | 1896 - Страниц: 840
...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... | |
 | Illustrated poems - 1885 - Страниц: 370
...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...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... | |
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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. 
