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" It lies not in our power to love or hate, For will in us is over-ruled by fate. When two are stripped, long ere the course begin, We wish that one should lose, the other win; And one especially do we affect Of two gold ingots, like in each respect. The... "
Restituta: Or, Titles, Extracts, and Characters of Old Books in English ... - Page 118
by Sir Egerton Brydges - 1813
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The Cyclopædia of Practical Quotations: English and Latin, with an Appendix ...

Jehiel Keeler Hoyt - Quotations, English - 1882 - 914 pages
...woven with delights. /. MALHKKBE — To Cardinal Kichelieit. Trans, by Longfellow. It lies not in onr д. MjviiLOwE —Hero and Leander. First Sestiad. Line 1G7. They only fall, that strive to move, Or...
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The English Poets: Chaucer to Donne

Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1883 - 626 pages
...gaz'd, Till with the fire, that from his countenance blaz'd, Relenting Hero's gentle heart was strook : Such force and virtue hath an amorous look. It lies...us is over-rul'd by fate. When two are stript long e'er the course begin, We wish that one should lose, the other win ; And one especially do we affect...
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The Works of Shakespeare: the Text Carefully Restored According to the First ...

William Shakespeare - English drama - 1883 - 536 pages
...shepherd " look as though Shakespeare remembered him with affection. The passage runs ris follows i " It lies not in our power to love or hate, For will in us is overrul'd by fate. When two are stripp'd, long ere the course bey'n We wish that one should lose, the other win : And one especially...
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The Works of Shakespeare ...

William Shakespeare - 1883 - 1006 pages
...shepherd " look as though Shakespeare remembered him with a/fection. The passage runs as follows ; •• It lies not in our power to love or hate, For will in us is overrul'd by fate. When two are slripp'd, long ere the course be^'i We wish that one should lose, the other win : And one especially...
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Literature for Beginners: Containing Biographies of the Most Prominent ...

Harriet B. Swineford - American literature - 1883 - 302 pages
...Shakespeare. Wrote several plays in blank verse — Tamburlaine the Great, Dr. Faustus, The Jew of Malta, etc. It lies not in our power to love or hate, For will in us is overruled by fate. Hero and Leander. Samuel Daniel (1562-1619). — Known as " well-languaged Daniel."...
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Ergänzungen und Berichtigungen der hergebrachten Shakespeare ..., Volume 2

E. Hermann - 1884 - 328 pages
...interessant, daß ich nicht umhin kann, sie ihrem vollem Wortlaute nach mitzutheilen. Marlowe sagt : „It lies not in our power to love or hate, For will in us is overrul'd with fatey). 1) Namentlich auch, daß er nicht bloß ein Adonis, sondern auch ein Ganymedes ist. 2)...
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Chapters in the History of English Literature: From 1509 to the Close of the ...

Ellen Crofts - England - 1884 - 392 pages
...seen by Leander sacrificing in the Temple of Venus — "Stone-still he stood, and evermore he gaz'd. It lies not in our power to love or hate, For will in us is over-ruled by fate. let it suffice, What we behold is censur'd by our eyes ; Where both deliberate...
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The Dramatic Works of Christopher Marlowe: (Selected.) With a Prefatory ...

Christopher Marlowe, Percy Pinkerton - English drama - 1885 - 354 pages
...gaz'd, Till with the fire, that from his countenance blaz'J, Relenting Hero's gentle heart was strook : Such force and virtue hath an amorous look. It lies not in our power to love or hate, For will in ns is overrul'd by fate. When two are stript long ere the course begin, We wish that one should lose,...
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Christopher Marlowe

Christopher Marlowe, John Addington Symonds - 1887 - 506 pages
...scarcely surpassed the sweet gravity which the verse of " our elder Shelley " here reaches : — " It lies not in our power to love Or hate, For will in us is over-ruled by fate. When two are stripped, long e'er the course begin, We wish that one should lose,...
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The English Poets: Chaucer to Donne

Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1889 - 632 pages
...gaz'd, Till with the fire, that from his countenance blaz'd, Relenting Hero's gentle heart was strook : Such force and virtue hath an amorous look. It lies...hate, For will in us is over-rul'd by fate. When two arc stript long e'er the course begin, We wish that one should lose, the other win ; And one especially...
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