 | Susan Ferrier - 1819 - 364 páginas
...Mary, therefore, left her quite happy, and returned to Beech Park. CHAPTER XI. " He either fears bis fate too much, Or his deserts are small, Who dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all." Marquis of MoKTEoSK. TIME rolled on, but no event occurred in Gri?zy's life... | |
 | 1837 - 540 páginas
...will reign, And I will reign alone ; My soul did ever more disdain A rival to 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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1828 - 366 páginas
...reign, • And I will reign alone ; My thoughts did evermore disdatq 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. MARQUIS OF MONTROSH. ft AFTER departing from the kingdom, (September 1646,)... | |
 | Constable and co, ltd - 1828 - 706 páginas
...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. MARQUIS OF MONTROSK. AFTER departing from the kingdom, (September 1646,) in... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1829 - 414 páginas
...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, 170 But I will reign, and govern still, And always give the law, And have each subject at my will,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1829 - 356 páginas
...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. But I will reign, and govern still, And always give the law, And have each... | |
 | Edward Trevor Anwyl - 1829 - 1138 páginas
...honourable commission in the service of your king? You know what one of our poets has said— ' 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.' And are not you bold enough to venture a trial for so peerless a prize?" "... | |
 | 1830 - 458 páginas
...stumble with impunity.' 1 replwd ts this affectionate expostulation in the words of Montra» '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.' 2G8" n my temper, nor will I eut a single lueul the worse, lint f I succeed,... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - 1832 - 120 páginas
...with impunity." I replied to this affectionate expostulation, in the words of Montrose, 11 He cither fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, Who dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all." If I fail, I said, it is a sign I ought never to have succeeded, and I will... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1833 - 484 páginas
...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... | |
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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. 
