 | Francis Samuel Drake - 1879 - 1042 頁
...teaching a grammar school at N. Ipswich, he wrote the famous juvenile recitation commencing, — " You'd scarce expect one of my age To speak in public on the stage." He studied law in Boston, and wrote for Russell's Gazette and Dennie's farmer's Museum. His prose papers,... | |
 | Foxborough (Mass. : Town). Centennial Executive Committee - 1879 - 284 頁
...Friends and Fellow-Citizens: — The echo of the school boy's declamation of fifty years ago — " You'd scarce expect one of my age To speak in public on the stage," comes to me to-day with the same feeling of fear now as then, only intensified, that I may fail to... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1880 - 1124 頁
...courage up. Tkt Grave, K. BLAIR. Besides, they always smell of bread and butter. Manfred. BYRON. You 'd thickets, Farther and farther awuy it lloated and dropped ; And if I chance to fall below Demosthenes or C'icero, Don't view me with a critic's eye, But pass... | |
 | Lord William Pitt Lennox - 1881 - 332 頁
...SELIM ANI> HAMLET — PRECOCIOUS TALENT CENSURED ABSURDITY OF A YOUTH APPEARING AS A GROWN-UP MAN. 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... | |
 | Daniel Bateman Cutter - 1881 - 736 頁
...since, a favorite piece for declamation by the junior schoolboys commenced with this couplet : " You 'd scarce expect one of my age To speak in public on the stage." When I received the invitation of the committee of arrangements to deliver an address at the close... | |
 | Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Anna Lydia Ward - 1882 - 926 頁
...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... | |
 | 1882 - 1434 頁
...rarely merit to be criticised. /. ISAAC DIBEAELJ— Literary Character </ Hen of Genius. Ch. VI. Yon'd d: so beyond all measure, That, were my state far worser tha And if I chance to fall below Demosthenes or Cicero, Don't view me with a critic's eye, But pass my... | |
 | Landon Taylor - 1883 - 540 頁
...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 on the stage. And if I chance to fall below Demosthenes or Cicero, Don't view me with a critic's eye, But paxs my... | |
 | Daniel Franklin Secomb - 1883 - 1060 頁
...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, afterward... | |
 | George Sumner Weaver - 1883 - 612 頁
...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... | |
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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. Large streams from little fountains flow; Tall oaks from little... 
