 | Caleb Bingham - 1807 - 312 páginas
...LITTLE BOY, SEVEN YEARS OLD. YOU'D scarce expect one oj\.iffy age, To speak in public, on the stag%; And if I chance to fall below Demosthenes or Cicero, Don't view me wilh a critic's eye, liii' pass my imperfections by. ' Large ' 58 THE COLUMBIAN ORATOR. Large streams... | |
 | Caleb Bingham - 1811 - 316 páginas
....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, 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... | |
 | Caleb Bingham - 1817 - 314 páginas
...LITTLE BOY SEVEN 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 ray im perfections by. Large streams from little fountains flow ; Tall oaks from little acorns grow... | |
 | Warren Burton - 1833 - 174 páginas
...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 - 412 páginas
...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 - 534 páginas
...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 on the stage ; And if I chance to fall below Demosthenes or Cicero, Don't view me with a critic's eye, But pass... | |
 | 1840 - 480 páginas
...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 - 308 páginas
...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 my imperfections by,' &c. 7- " Those six lines were my first lesson; and after tea my mother sat down to the task of teaching... | |
 | John D. Post - 1842 - 314 páginas
...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 - 524 páginas
...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 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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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. 
