 | Nineteenth century - 1908 - 1088 pages
...Brutus, is not in our stars, j ,, * But in ourselves, that we are underlings. And the words of Helena : Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, Which we ascribe...pull Our slow designs when we ourselves are dull. Now see how emphatic Dante is in saying the same thing — namely, that sin is deliberate perversion... | |
 | A. C. Harwood - Literary Criticism - 1964 - 68 pages
...stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings'. And thus Helena in All's Well that Ends Well (1604): 'Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie Which we ascribe...pull Our slow designs when we ourselves are dull'. In Lear (1606) it is true that Gloucester blames eclipses for the evils of Society. But the new and... | |
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Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, Which we ascribe to Heaven : the fated sky Gives us free scope ; only, doth backward pull Our slow designs, when we ourselves are dull. 
