 | John Mason Neale - 1843 - 236 pàgines
...wishes—but I warn you against being too sanguine." " Do you not know ?" asked Charles : " 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!" And in half an hour he was gallopping to Teynton Park. » Some two hours subsequently,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1845 - 524 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Marguerite Countess of Blessington - 1846 - 774 pàgines
...— "Like Alexander I would reign, And I would reign alone; My soul did evermore disdain A rival in my throne. 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. "Would you stand this, Miss Moore?" "Why," she said, as her fingers ran carelessly... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1846 - 614 pàgines
...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... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1847 - 578 pàgines
...heart, I '11 never love thee more. ' Like Alexander I will reign, And I will reign alone; My heart shall evermore disdain A rival on my throne. He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, Who puts it not unto the touch To win or lose it all ! ' But if thou wilt be constant then, And faithful... | |
 | 1847 - 650 pàgines
...I '11 never love thee more. " Like Alexander I will reign, And I will reign alone ; My heart shall evermore disdain A rival on my throne, He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, Who puts it not unto the touch To win or lose it all ! " But if thou wilt be constant then, And faithful... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1847 - 592 pàgines
...heart, I Ml never love thee more. ' Like Alexander I will reign, And I will reign alone ; My heart shall evermore disdain A rival on my throne. He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, Who puts it not unto the touch To win or lose it all ! ' But if thou wilt be constant then, And faithful... | |
 | 1853 - 976 pàgines
...sought, then ; and bid the Varangian, whom he left below, attend me here." CHAPTER IV. " 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." SIB EDWABD DE BTTSHTOX had walked forth into the en with a lighter \ieort, sessed.... | |
 | Susan Ferrier - 1847 - 168 pàgines
...her quite happy, and returned to Beech Park. CHAPTER LV1I. " He either fears his fate too Jiuch, i Or his deserts are small, Who dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all." Marquis of MONTKO s E . TIME rolled on, but no event occurred in Grizzy's life worthy... | |
 | Mark Napier - 1848 - 450 pàgines
...and 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 deserts are small, That puts it not unto the touch to win or lose it all. I think thy virtues be too strong to suffer... | |
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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. 
