 | 1872 - 858 pages
...attentions, and in an evil hour took unto himself the counsel of the old ballad, ' lie cither fears liis fate too much, Or his deserts are small, Who dares not put it to the touch, And win or lose it all.' He did put it to the touch ; and Eleanor's answer was simple and decided.... | |
 | Claire Weissman Wilks - 1980 - 164 pages
...him to you. Tennyson I never loved a tree or flower but 'twas the soonest to decay. Arnold 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 Who changes the name and not the letter Changes for worse and not the better. Tis better to have loved... | |
 | 1906 - 726 pages
...a sort of desperate mockery : He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, Who dare not put it to the touch, To win or lose it all. Yes — Yes ! That was best. " To win or lose it all." He whispered the last line over again ; and... | |
 | Jane Millgate - 1987 - 242 pages
...Marquis of Montrose; see, for example, his letter to Lady Abercorn ot 9 September 1809: 'He either tears his fate too much / Or his deserts are small / Who...dares not put it to the touch / To win or lose it all' (L n, 239). See also his quotation of the same stanza in the 1830 Introduction to The Lady of the Lake... | |
 | Ambrose Bierce - 1996 - 260 pages
...Democratic politicians. Fear, n. A sense of the total depravity of the immediate future. He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, Who dares not put it to the touch Who'd rather pass than call. Earl ofMontrose Feast, n. A festival. A religious celebration usually... | |
 | Thomas Taylor - 1996 - 168 pages
...Montgomery's recital of a verse by the Duke of Montrose: He either fears his fate too much. Else his desserts are small. Who dares not put it to the touch. To win or lose it all. It was surely win or lose it all for Rudder's Rangers. Darby's had lost. It was for 2nd and 5th Battalions... | |
 | Duncan A. Bruce - 1998 - 404 pages
...Scotland's greatest soldiers, Montrose was also an accomplished poet. His most famous verse runs: "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."6 Hamish Hamilton British-American publisher who was an airplane pilot and rowed in the 1928 Olympics... | |
 | Andrew Greig - 1997 - 294 pages
...something of the life he chose to live. He either fears his fate too much or his deserts are small, that dares not put it to the touch to win or lose it all. Joe Simpson Sheffield, August 1997 Foreword The characters who appear in this book may bear only a... | |
 | Ambrose Bierce - 2010 - 438 pages
...Democratic politicians. Fear, n. A sense of the total depravity of the immediate future. He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, Who dares not put it to the touch — Who'd rather pass than call. Earl ofMontrose. Feast, n. A festival. A religious celebration usually... | |
 | Anne Bogart - 2001 - 170 pages
...alleviates the risk of failure but at the same time there is also no possibility of advancement. He either fears his fate too much Or his deserts are small Who dares not put it to the torch To win or lose it all. I learned about the Japanese word irimi while studying Aikido, a Japanese... | |
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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. 
