 | Henry Mills Alden - 1858 - 884 Seiten
...daily repeats to himKlf, in an imbecile way, the fact, that "Either he feara Ms fate, Or hi« desert to small. Who fears to put It to the touch, And win or lose it til." But this ceremony gives no relief. He is miserably afraid, too nervous to attempt his philosophy... | |
 | 1871 - 970 Seiten
...a man, and lay it before her, and if she is worthy of you she will come to you. " He either dreads his fate too much, Or his desert is small, Who fears to put it to the touch, To win or lose it all." God grant you a home and fireside, Harry, and I will be the indulgent uncle... | |
 | 1886 - 504 Seiten
...with fear to temper it ; pride, courage. Ves, courage ! Courage enough to enable the man to " dare to put it to the touch, and win or lose it all.'' We find at the end of all our wanderings— the inevitable. John Cavorne certainly had. Why had the... | |
 | Sir Arthur Helps - 1870 - 304 Seiten
...by anything that she had once said. He resolved, in the words of the gallant and daring Montrose : To put it to the touch, And win or lose it all. Fortune, often so cruel in her seeming kindness, apparently favoured his design. Shortly after he had... | |
 | Dinah Maria Mulock Craik - 1870 - 432 Seiten
...been played fast and loose with so long, determined at last for the second time to try his fate — "To put it to the touch, And win or lose it all;" and the lady earnest enough to say, " I am yours forever," yet practical enough to inquire his means,... | |
 | Harriet Beecher Stowe - 1871 - 506 Seiten
...like a man and lay it before her, and if she is worthy of you she will come to you. " He either dreads his fate too much. Or his desert is small, Who fears to put it to the touch, To win or lose it all." God grant you a home and fireside, Harry, Mitt I will be the indulgent uncle... | |
 | Edmund Yates - 1873 - 174 Seiten
...grand mistake. Either it is to be, or it is not to be ; and it is advisable to know one's fate, — to ' put it to the touch, and win or lose it all,' as the poet says, as speedily as possible. I rather think it is to be in this instance. The young lady,... | |
 | Many years - 1875 - 186 Seiten
...best to win the prize, — and delays are trebly dangerous when a noble lord is the rival. He either fears his fate too much, Or his desert is small, Who...fears to put it to the touch, And win or lose it all. So thought John Stanton. So thinking he spoke, and eloquently, as true love sometimes can do. Carried... | |
 | Harriet Beecher Stowe - 1876 - 146 Seiten
...a man and lay it before her, and if she is worthy of you she will come to you. " 'He either dreads his fate too much, Or his desert is small, Who fears to put it to the touch, To win or lose it all' " God grant you a home and fireside, Harry, and I will be the indulgent uncle... | |
 | Edward Jenkins - 1878 - 298 Seiten
...anything! Benjingo was the man to find out. To his credit be it said he never wanted daring. He is not one Who fears to put it to the touch, And win or lose it all. Following at once upon the announcement that a Congress had been arranged for, came the news that my... | |
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He either fears his fate too much, Or his desert is small, Who fears to put it to the touch, And win or lose it all. 
