 | Mark Napier - 1848 - 446 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... | |
 | Philip Henry Stanhope (5th earl.) - 1849 - 338 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... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1849 - 332 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... | |
 | 1919 - 424 pàgines
...the Scottish hero of a later day, he deemed that Ho cither fears his fate too much, Or his deserta are small, Who dares not put it to the touch To gain or lose it all. For Sir Walter Raleigh, whatever his faults (and, under pre-ent-clay conventions and environments,... | |
 | England - 1850 - 456 pàgines
...more. Like Alexander, I will reign, And I will 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. Then in the empire of thy heart, Where I alone would be, If others should pretend... | |
 | Thomas Smibert - 1850 - 596 pàgines
...honour more." And he also says, alluding to both love and war — " As Alexander I will reign, And 1 will reign alone ; My thoughts did evermore disdain...A rival on my throne. He either fears his fate too mueh, Or his deserts are small, Who dares not put it to the toueh, To gain or lose it all." So might... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1851 - 478 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... | |
 | Confessor - 1851 - 304 pàgines
...have unravelled the mystery of the foregoing narrative, remained unrecorded. CHAPTER II. 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 ! JAMBS, MARQUIS OF MONTROSE. SINCE the events recorded in our fourteenth chapter,... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 592 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... | |
 | Scottish songs - 1852 - 356 pàgines
...confusion have a part, Which virtuous souls abhor, I'll call a synod in my heart, And never love thee more. As Alexander I will reign, And I will reign alone...small, Who dares not put it to the touch To gain or lose it all. But I will reign and govern still, And always give the law, And have each subject at my... | |
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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. 
