 | Caroline Grautoff - 1854 - 332 pàgines
...ultimate success — how bright the future looked — that future but lately so dark and so dreary : " He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, Who dares not put it to the touch, To win or lose it all." Walter did hope, in spite of himself; and when he left town, and came down to... | |
 | Catherine Anne Hubback - 1854 - 934 pàgines
...of the nature of woman, for he would not yield to despair. Perhaps he remembered the words — F " He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, Who dares not put it to the touch And win or lose it all !" though I hardly think he was likely to have heard these old lines, or to... | |
 | Wendell Phillips, Theodore Parker, Thomas Wentworth Higginson - 1854 - 144 pàgines
...is generally the second-rate men who doubt,— doubt, perhaps, because they fear a fair field: . " He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, Who fears to put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all." But I wish especially to direct your attention... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1855 - 530 pàgines
...adopt the sentiment of my old hero Montrose, and to say to myself, that in \iterature, as in war, " He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small. Who dares not put it to the touch, To win or lose it all." To the particulars explanatory of the plan of these Chronicles, which the reader... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1855 - 528 pàgines
...adopt the sentiment of my old hero Montrose, and to say to myself, that in literature, as in war, " He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, Who dares not put it to the touch, To win or lose it all." To the particulars explanatory of the plan of these Chronicles, which the reader... | |
 | George John Whyte-Melville - 1855 - 296 pàgines
...he would—ask the question, and stand the shot like a man. The General agreed with Montrose:— ' He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, Who dares not put it to the touch, To win or lose it all.' In pursuance of this doughty resolution, our veteran warrior took advantage of... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1855 - 914 pàgines
...impunity." I replied to this affectionate expi>stulation in the words of Montrose — " He either fears hU fate too much, Or his deserts are small. Who dares not put it to the touch To gain or lose it all."' author first entered the romantic scenery of Loch Katrine, of which he may perhaps say... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1855 - 580 pàgines
...heart, I'll never love thee more. Like Alexander I will reign, And I will reign alone; My thoughts shall evermore disdain A rival on my throne. He either fears his fate too much, Or his desert's too small, That puts it not unto the touch To win or lose it all. But I must rule and govern... | |
 | Mark Napier - 1856 - 500 pàgines
...how to conquer an eternal name ; We find the echo of the very sentiment in his famous ballad :— " As Alexander I will reign, And I "will reign alone...fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That dares not put it to the touch To gain or lone it all." As the heroes of Plutarch had thus roused... | |
 | Mark Napier - 1856 - 520 pàgines
...have a part, Which virtuous souls abhor, I'll call a Synod in mine heart, And never love thee more AB Alexander I will reign, And I will reign alone ; My...fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all. 3. But I will reign, and govern still,... | |
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I'll never love thee more. As Alexander I will reign, And I will reign alone ; My thoughts did evermore disdain A rival on my throne. He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, Who dares not put it to the touch To gain or lose it all. 
