 | Jane Millgate - 1987 - 242 страници
...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... | |
 | Ambrose Bierce - 1996 - 260 страници
...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... | |
 | Trevor A. Kletz - 1996 - 224 страници
...well-known verse by James Graham1: 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. (The poet was writing about love, where his philosophy may be justified, but this is not always made... | |
 | Duncan A. Bruce - 1998 - 404 страници
...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... | |
 | Ambrose Bierce - 2010 - 438 страници
...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... | |
 | George Bernard Shaw - 2001 - 324 страници
...he begins to declaim gracefully] 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. The cottage door opens whilst he is reciting; and Vivie and Praed come in. He breaks off. Praed puts... | |
 | Leonard T. Olson - 2000 - 326 страници
...the Marquis de Montrose, who said: "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!" Morrow, a World War II veteran of the Canadian Navy, specializes in the hurdles. But he's been thinking... | |
 | Anne Bogart - 2001 - 170 страници
...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... | |
 | Ignatius Donnelly - 2003 - 340 страници
...part first, stanza 2, lines 5-8. The last three lines should run: "Or his deserts are small, / That dares not put it to the touch, / To gain or lose it all." CHAPTER 23 (Pages 153-58) 1. In Greek mythology Danae was a princess who, after being impregnated by... | |
 | Edward T. Dunn - 2005 - 84 страници
...Lady of the Lake, states of the need to take a risk, necessary to be creative, as follows: He either fears his fate too much Or his deserts are small Who dares not put it to the test? To gain or lose it all. (Editorial: As a college teacher of holistic health, I have come to believe... | |
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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. 
