Most miserable man, whom wicked fate Hath brought to court, to sue for had-ywist, That few have found, and manie one hath mist!
Not thou, O Clarion, though fairest thou Of all thy kinde, unhappie happie flie, Whose cruell fate is woven even now 235 Of loves owne hand, to worke thy miserie!
There chast Alceste lives inviolate, 425 Free from all care, for that her husbands daies She did prolong by changing fate for fate: Lo!
The fateof the pilgrims under the new rulers of Palestine was more deplorable than ever.
The event of that day determined the fate of the two rival republics.
This circumstance, it is probable, contributed more than any other to determine the fate of those battles.
Strength and agility of body were of the highest consequence, and commonly determined the fate of battles.
All this picture of the fate of the soul is taken from the Vendidad, where the fate of the just is described, and in the Yasht, where the condition of faithful and impious souls respectively is set forth on parallel lines.
Egypt became once more the principal object of attack, and by the irony of fate Pharaoh had himself contributed to enrich the coffers and reinforce the fleet of his foes.
Both of them were aware of the fate of Smerdis; they also knew that the Persians were ignorant of it, and that every one at court, including the mother and sisters of the prince, believed that he was still alive.
A single battle will decide the fate of all you possess.
Their miserable fate did not discourage the satrap of Lydia, Pissuthnes, who was of Achæmenian race: he entered the lists in 418 B.
Apollo had endeavoured to delay the punishment till the next generation, that it might fall on the son of his votary, but he had succeeded in obtaining from fate a respite of three years only.
This sudden collapse of a power whose exalted position had defied all attacks for centuries, and the tragic fate of the king who had received his crown merely to lose it, filled contemporary beholders with astonishment and pity.
One chance of escape from such a fate remained to them--if one or other of them, or some neighbouring state, could acquire such an ascendency as to make it possible to unite what forces remained to them under one rule.
He was the only honest man it had been my fate to know.
But she says no word, only watches the smoke rise, and anathematises the fate that has slain a useful beast.
Whatever Fate might have in store for him after that did not seem to matter; this one night, at least, he was free, and he was going to the woman he loved.
There is some strange fate in this," he muttered to himself.
It has been a blunder and a muddle, from first to last; Fate has proved too strong for me--I'll struggle against it no longer.
Two armies faced each other in central Bavaria, two armies on which thefate of Germany depended, those of Gustavus Adolphus, the right hand of Protestantism, and of Wallenstein, the hope of Catholic imperialism.
While this was going on, the detachments which Varus had sent out in various directions were similarly assailed, and met the same fate as had overtaken the main body of the troops.
Enzio, the unfortunate son of Frederick who was held prisoner by the Bolognese, was involved in the fate of his unhappy nephew.
It is this dread story of the fate of the Hohenstauffen imperial house which we have now to tell.
His fate was, perhaps, a fortunate one, for it prevented him from beholding the loss of the army, which was almost entirely destroyed by sickness at the city in which his body was entombed.
As for the daughter whom he had yielded to Roman hands, her fate troubled little his base soul.
Tafo, knowing what would be the fate of the boy should he be captured, turned and galloped upon him lance in hand, determined that he should not fall alive into the hands of his cruel foes.
In almost less time than it takes to tell it they were thrown into confusion, overwhelmed, routed; in the course of less than half an hour the fate of the battle was decided, and the French army completely defeated.
It seemed to him that after all his years of patient persistency, fate at the last was playing him a scurvy trick.
He recalled that first day on the train when she had sat in his lap so long and he had felt the whisper offate in their meeting.
And he was to learn that for most of us fate works with curious indirection.
If the dark square figure standing there had been an iron fate trampling her young life down into hopeless wretchedness, she forgot it now.
There are those in our day whose hard fate it is to read and to like James's and Bulwer's novels.
It was Borrow's fate, a tragic fate for a man so proud, to outlive the period of his fame.
Goaded to desperation by the scornful attitude of the young man, the master-maltster laid hands upon him, and instantly shared the fate of the constables.
Lopez soon afterwards disappeared, and, left alone, Borrow suffered great anxiety as to the fate of the brave fellow.
Mr Lipovzoff struck Borrow as being "rather a singular man," as he took occasion to inform Mr Jowett, apparently utterly indifferent as to the fateof his translation, excellent though it was.
It alienated from Borrow all but his personal friends, and it sealed his literary fate as far as his own generation was concerned.
It was a defiance to the fate that had so long dogged his footsteps.
The man had dreamed his fate a few minutes previously, and had told Borrow of the circumstances on coming up from below.
He had taken his fate into his hands, played his cards boldly enough, but Fate was beginning to get her own back.
Our ways through life may lie apart, or fate may bring them together.
That you should reflect before you give me an answer, I can understand; but please let me know myfate as soon as possible.
Fate has invariably in store for the thirteenth at a dinner party?
It struck me as the most barbaric thing we had yet encountered that this witch-doctor with his foolish bag of tricks should be called upon to decide the fate of a fellow-being.
Standing apart from the rest, facing the gate, was the induna whose fate was to be decided.
Fate was driving him at a pace that threatened to wreck in no uncertain manner.
Five hundred and forty dollars was to be handed over to the widow, to ease the burden Fatehad inflicted upon her.
A good God who permits such a fate to pursue a man?
Fate had such refreshing ways of getting at a man.
In fancy she saw him food for carrion at the end of a rope; she saw his body swaying to the night breeze, an ominous, hideous shadow, a warning to all of the fate awaiting those who sinned against the unwritten laws of the cattle world.
All the ill-fate behind him was wiped off the slate.
Cursed by an evil fate it is beyond my power to fight.
All I care for, is to lead an earnest, true life in whatever position Fate may place me.
Let us then be up and doing With a heart for any fate Still achieving, still pursuing Learn to labor and to wait.
We shall only instance the fateof Catania, one of the most famous, ancient, and flourishing cities in the kingdom, the residence of several monarchs, and a university.
He concludes him to be the man of the hardest fate to lose so much honour at one blow that ever was.
Aware of the danger and impending fate of its inexperienced offspring, she swam rapidly round it, in decreasing circles, evincing the utmost uneasiness and anxiety; but the parental admonitions were unheeded, and it met its fate.
I may occasionally write or talk of the circumstance with levity, but whenever I recall it to mind, I tremble at the bare recollection of the dreadful fate that seemed inevitable.
I took her in my arms, and tenderly embracing her, endeavoured to divert her thoughts from the mournful fate that too evidently hung over her; she became tranquil, and I proposed taking a stroll in the adjoining park.
Go to your station instantly, and think yourself fortunate that I do not denounce you to the captain, who has a perfect right to throw you overboard--a fate which your chain of crimes fully deserves.
This was a melancholy sight, especially to a sailor, who knew not how soon the same fate awaited him.
I comprehended in a moment that a shark had taken him, and expected that every instant my own fatewould be like his.
It was now pretty evident what the fate of poor puss was likely to be, and why the lead was made fast to her feet.
Let our fate be a warning to you, and endeavour to show by your future acts your deep contrition for the past.
In the meantime, while the page offate is unrolling, I feel a secret agitation which consumes me, the more so for being repressed.
Were it not for my child, this would be rather a soothing reflection, and, if starvation were my fate, I should fulfil that fatewithout a sigh.
I am not given to tears, and though my most miserable fatehas often turned my eyes to fountains, yet oftener I suffer agonies unassuaged by tears.
Mary and her new babe are well; he, Vincent all over, fat and flourishing moreover, and she dolorous that it should be her fate to add more than her share to the population of the world.
Percy is much, but I think of you and Henry, and shrink from binding up my life in a child who may hereafter divide hisfate from mine.
The consequence was that I gained peace and civil usage, which they denied me; more I do not ask; of fate I only ask a grave.
I had my Father's fate for many a year pressing me to the earth; I had Percy's education and welfare to guard over, and in all this I had no one friendly hand stretched out to support me.
If you ask me what I shall do, I can only answer you as did the Princess Mentimiletto, when buried under the ruins of her villa by an earthquake, "I await my fate in silence.
My fate has debarred me from this enjoyment, but you seem in the midst of it.
Often have you scoffed and sneered at all the aliment of kindness or society that fate has afforded me.
Then when the night has come lies down, In sleep the servile day to drown-- Like all whom Life turns with a frown From their true fate aside.
For every jasper flower He set in its dream seems loaning To Beauty a grief, Mumtaz Mahal, And unto Fate a sigh.
Or can it be a derelict that drifts Beyond thy ken toward some reef ofFate On which Oblivion's sand forever shifts?
Had he taken the plunge his fate would no doubt have been sealed.
Maiden with the gipsy look, Dusky locks and russet hue, Open wide thy Sybil's book, Tell my fate and tell it true; Shall I live?
There he stopped again to wonder whimsically at the ill fate of it all.
He didn't remind her that they had also seen a mountain of men, if fate had piled their bodies as high as it was piling the fame of their endeavor, who couldn't be made over.
Curiously, he thought, it was Milly's exasperating fate to put everybody on guard.
It seemed to assure him that although the surface of life might heave and sink with revolution and the fate of dynasties, Charlotte and her equipment of bed-rock integrity and clouds existed still.
Should fate overwhelm me with disaster, I must beg that you will continue to regard her and love her as your own.
In the imaginative tales he had been fond of weaving for his own amusement, Nancy would frequently figure, revealed at last as the child of noble parents, as a princess doomed by some strange fate to exile.
Even if the message suffered the unlikely fateof being intercepted and finding its way to one of the few Arabic-reading Christians, it would remain an enigma.
It was not only Rachel's fate that troubled him, he realized.
But Daoud dared not argue against the belief that God decided the fate of nations.
What a bitter fate it would be, Daoud thought, if his Frankish looks, which caused him to be sent here, earned him his death in a stupid street fight.
It was a longing for rest, for his old retirement, that came at intervals so powerfully upon him, as he rode on, that his heart sickened of the active exertion on which fate had thrust him.
With all the passions of hell alive in his heart, he had met the fate that he intended for Fanshawe.
The expedition, therefore, on which fate had now thrust him, was an entire deviation from the quiet pathway of all his former years; and he felt like one who sets forth over the broad ocean without chart or compass.
