 | Caleb Bingham - 1807 - 312 sider
...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... | |
 | Warren Burton - 1833 - 174 sider
...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 sider
...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... | |
 | 1840 - 480 sider
...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 sider
...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 - 314 sider
...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... | |
 | Baynard Rush Hall - 1843 - 352 sider
...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 - 684 sider
...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,... | |
 | 1845 - 584 sider
...of your toast, I have only to say, in the language of another quite old piece of poetry :— " You'd scarce expect one of my age To speak in public on the siage; [Laughter.] And if I chance lo fall below Demosthenes or Cicero," [As Mr. Chapman pronounced... | |
 | Charles Northend - 1866 - 172 sider
...obedient and faithful as he was, and they will always have friends. MET II. POETRY. THE YOUNG ORATO . You 'D scarce expect one of my age To speak in public on the stage ; And if 1 chance to fail below Demosthenes or Cicero, Don't view me with a critic's eye, But pass my imperfections... | |
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You'd scarce expect one of my age to speak in public on the stage, 
