...too, since it was whispered that he had composed for Mr. Everett's youthful recitation the verses: > "You'd scarce, expect one of my age . To speak in public on the stage." He was, moreover, a learned antiquarian and divine, and had come to Natural History by a strictly professional...

...Edward Everett, but which was written by a distant relative, the versatile David Everett, beginning— "You'd scarce expect one of my age To speak in public on the stage." As soon as he was taught to write, he took to rhyming. As one of his school-companions remarked to...

...distinctly alluded to by Daniel and St. John ; and, more than all, he wrote the well-known poem, — " You'd scarce expect one of my age To speak in public on the stage." Mr. Everett removed from Boston to Amherst, NH ; and his student, Mr. Shaw, went with him, and there...

...Edward Everett,1 but who must have written them very young, if he wrote them at all) beginning, " You 'd scarce expect one of my age to speak in public on the stage," — lines which I was dragged forward to recite incessantly, till I fairly loathed them. This " Orator...

...heaven-born band ! Who fought and died in freedom's cause. Hail Columbia. DAVID EVERETT. 1796-1813. \7"OU '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...

...literary ability and considerable poetic genius. He was the author of the celebrated juvenile poem : "You'd scarce expect one of my age, To speak in public on the stage ;" also of "Common Sense in Dishabille," and "Duranzel or the Persian Poet — a Tragedy." Besides...

...speak at the exhibition in such a manner. James, you may try. Do not be agitated. Speak slowly. James. You'd scarce expect one of my age To speak in public on the stage, &c. (So rapidly that it is difficult to understand what he is saying.) Teacher. Stop ! stop ! You speak...

...Jan. 8, 1851 : she d. Nov. 20, 1848. He was the little boy for whom the piece was written. " You would scarce expect one of my age, to speak in public on the stage," and he was the first little boy that ever spoke it. The author of it was David Everett, Esq., of New...

...when a lad, that those verses were composed which are familiar to all now, both old and young. "You "d scarce expect one of my age, To speak in public on the stage," etc. They were written for him by Mr. David Everett, a relative of Edward Everett. Subsequently, in...

...never were bought or sold^ And centre there, are better than gold. Ex. 124. — A LITTLE PIECE. YOU 'D scarce expect one of my age To speak in public on the stage ; It takes three things to make a row, For my old uncle told me so ; A welcome here I give to each,...