 | Caleb Bingham - 1807 - 300 pages
...Don't view me wilh a critic's eye, liii' pass my imperfections by. ' Large ' 58 THE COLUMBIAN ORATOR. Large streams from little fountains flow ; Tall oaks...tongue ; Yet all great learned men, like me, Once learn'd to read their A, B, C. But why may not Columbia's soil Rear men as great as Britain's isle... | |
 | Caleb Bingham - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1811 - 300 pages
...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...feeble tongue; Yet all great learned men, like me, Once learn'd to read their A, B, C. But why may n.ot Columbia's soil Rear men as great as Britain's isle;... | |
 | Caleb Bingham - 1817 - 300 pages
...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...feeble tongue; Yet all great learned men, like me, Once learn'd to read their A, B, C. But why may not Columbia's soil Rear men as great as Britain's isle... | |
 | Caleb Bingham - 1821 - 300 pages
...below Demofthenes or Cicero, Don't view me with a critic's But pafs my imperfections by. Large ftreams from little fountains flow ; Tall oaks from little acorns grow : And though I no'v am fmall and young, Of judgment weak, and feeble tongue; Yet all great learned men, like me, Once... | |
 | George Merriam, Charles Merriam - Foreign Language Study - 1841 - 300 pages
...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... | |
 | Baynard Rush Hall - History - 1843
...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 imperfections by." A GENERAL truce and cessation of arms had taken place, and our Faculty began to drill the quiescent... | |
 | Charles Mason Hovey - Gardening - 1845
...the charity invoked in these two last lines, that I repeat them from the bottom of tny heart, " Don't view me with a critic's eye, But pass my imperfections by." [Mr. Chapman then proceeded to relate the difficulties attendant upon making a speech, and concluded... | |
 | Ann Jane Morgan
...so small a child learned so much deceit. This is a small affair at best, some may say ; but do not " Large streams from little fountains flow, Tall oaks from little acorns grow ?" And do not the " small beginnings " of instruction lay the foundation of the man's or woman's character... | |
 | James Diman Green - 1850 - 53 pages
...the possible oritorial difference between Cicero and myself. And then at the lines: [ Laughter. " Don't view me with a critic's eye, But pass my imperfections by," I swept all criticism behind me with a magnificent motion. I recollect that, because it was suggestive... | |
 | James Spear Loring - 1852 - 694 pages
...stage ; And if I chance to fall below Demosthenes or Cicero, Don't view me with a critic's eye, Bat pass my imperfections by: Large streams from little...learned men, like me, Once learned to read their A, B, 0. But why may not Columbia's soil Rear men as great aa Britain's Isle, Exceed what Greece and... | |
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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... 
