 | United States. Work Projects Administration (Ohio) - 1936 - 510 páginas
...school boys and girls and all who were ever such, are familiar with the 'lines' beginning, '"You'd scarce expect one of my age, To speak in public on the stage.' "But all may not know the fact, that they were written by Edward Everett when only seven years old.... | |
 | United States. Work Projects Administration (Ohio) - 1938 - 474 páginas
...school boys and girls and all who were ever such, are familiar with the 'lines' beginning, '"You'd scarce expect one of my age, To speak in public on the stage.1 "But all may not know the fact, that they were written by Edward Everett when only seven years... | |
 | Mark Twain - 1982 - 1190 páginas
...non-participating scholars. The exercises began. A very little boy stood up and sheepishly recited, "You'd scarce expect one of my age to speak in public on the stage, etc." — accompanying himself with the painfully exact and spasmodic gestures which a machine might... | |
 | 1915 - 644 páginas
...to make an extemporaneous speech is to prepare it thoroughly beforehand. Now, will you forgive me? You would scarce expect one of my age to speak in public. Pardon me, therefore, if I refer to a very brief manuscript here. You might just as well forgive me... | |
 | Mark Twain - 1992 - 420 páginas
...nonjwrtici) wting scholars. The exercises began. A very litde boy stood up and sheepishly recited 'You'd scarce expect one of my age, to speak in public on the stage,' etc., accompanying himself with the painfully exact and spasmodic gestures which a machine might have... | |
 | John Ward Dean N. E. H. G. S. Staff - 1996 - 444 páginas
...remembered as the youth for whom the famous school-piece was written for a public exhibition : You'd scarce expect one of my age To speak in public on the stage. He was associated in this school with sons of many of the most respectable citizens of Boston, such... | |
 | Nancy C. Unger - 2000 - 420 páginas
...local schoolhouse. So short he had to stand on the teacher's desk to be seen, he recited: You'd not expect one of my age To speak in public on the stage. His proclivity for public speaking, fantasy, and drama lasted Bob a lifetime as he entertained friends,... | |
 | Mark Twain - 2001 - 554 páginas
...non-participating scholars. The exercises began. A very little boy stood up and sheepishly recited, "You'd scarce expect one of my age to speak in public on the stage," etc. — accompanying himself with the painfully exact and spasmodic gestures which a machine might... | |
 | Larzer Ziff - 2004 - 144 páginas
...the prize recitations at the village school. There: "A very little boy stood up and recited, 'You'd scarce expect one of my age to speak in public on the stage, etc.' accompanying himself with the painfully exact and spasmodic gesture which a machine might have... | |
 | Mark Twain - 2010 - 276 páginas
...nonparticipating scholars. The exercises began. A very little boy stood up and sheepishly recited 'You'd scarce expect one of my age, to speak in public on the stage', etc., accompanying himself with the painfully exact and spasmodic gestures which a machine might have... | |
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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... 
