| Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret) - English fiction - 1859 - 400 pages
...silent, full of thought, turning over half uncMsciousiy in his mind the words of his adviser. "He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small,...not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all." Somehow these lines floated in upon Huntley's mind as he stood gazing upon the summer landscape. To... | |
| Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret) - English fiction - 1859 - 406 pages
...full of thought, turning over half unconsciously in his mind the words of his adviser. " He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, "Who dares not put it to the touch, To gam or lose it all." Somehow these lines floated in upon Huntley's mind as he stood gazing upon the... | |
| Walter Scott - 1860 - 476 pages
...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... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1900 - 874 pages
...CHAPTER XXVII. THE ABBK'tf SALAD. ' He cither fears hi.s fate too much, Or bis deserts arc small, That dares not put it to the touch To gain or lose it all.' ' AND Mademoiselle's witnesses ? ' inquired the notary, when he had accommodated the ladies with chairs.... | |
| George John Whyte-Melville - Authors, English - 1861 - 412 pages
...and strong his arm, That bears from me the meed ; " varied by the resolute sentiment— " 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 ! " One or other of these romantic stanzas was continually on Mr. Sawyer's lips.... | |
| Margaret Oliphant Oliphant - 1862 - 346 pages
...reading — I wonder where it came from, or how it came to my hands here — I read : " ' He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small,...not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all.' and so I have in this particular ventured all, and gained, not lost, all, as you may see." "Verily,... | |
| R. Sim - Folk literature, Scottish - 1862 - 206 pages
...One venturous game our hands have won to-day, Another, gallants, yet remains to play." " He cither fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, Who dares not put it to the touch, To gain or loose it all." INTKO. TO THE LADY OF THE LAKE. OLD KEITH is a town of very great, although not very... | |
| George John Whyte- Melville - 1862 - 446 pages
...and strong his arm, That bears from me the meed;" varied by the resolute sentiment — " 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 !" One or other of these romantic stanzas was continually on Mr. Sawyer's lips.... | |
| 1862 - 268 pages
...Montrose's Love Song — he had been copying it for Clare ; he picked it up and read — '• 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." "I accept the omen," he said aloud, rising ; "the brave old Marquis was... | |
| William Johnstoun N. Neale - 1863 - 330 pages
...case stands without any circumlocution. " What said the gallant marquis of Montrose : " lie 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." " Yes, my dear Scapegrace," said Montagu ; " but when you quote the gallant marquis... | |
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