| Ballads, Scots - 1854 - 356 pages
...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,...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 will, And all... | |
| Caroline Grautoff - 1854 - 332 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
| Walter Scott - English poetry - 1855 - 914 pages
...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 he has somewhat... | |
| George John Whyte-Melville - Authors, English - 1855 - 296 pages
...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 - 528 pages
...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 pul it to the touch, To win or lose it all." To the particulars explanatory of the plan of these Chronicles,... | |
| Walter Scott - 1856 - 776 pages
...this affectionate expostulation in the words of Montrose — " He either fears his fate too ranch, Or his deserts are small, "Who dares not put it to the touch To gain or lose it all." " If I fail," I said, for the dialogue is strong in my recollection, " it is a sign that I ought never... | |
| What - 1856 - 408 pages
...or in earnest." " Like Montrose's song," remarked Adela, " Mr. Clayton is of opinion — ' 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.' And quite right too; it is the best way, I am sure. If anyone came to me for... | |
| Mark Napier - 1856 - 520 pages
...evermore disdain, A rival on my throne ; He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That dares not put it to the touch To gain or lose it all." As the heroes of Plutarch had thus roused his youthful ambition, it must have appeased the indignant... | |
| Robert B. M. Binning - Iran - 1857 - 462 pages
...troops, who all but worshipped him ; and doubtless thought with the illfated Montrose : — " He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small,...dares not put it to the touch To gain or lose it all." The whole army was in favour of this measure, but the moollah-hood violently opposed it. The ambitious... | |
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