“Yet it would be your duty to bear it, if you could not avoid it: it is weak and silly to say you cannot bear what it is your fate to be required to bear. (Jane Eyre)
It seems ‘your fate to be required to bear’ is a to-infinitive clause (or non-finite-clause by Bas Aarts:“They would hate [Jim to sell his boat].” ) and the object of cannot bear ; 'what it is' means 'whatever it is' and can be put in brackets. Can all transitive verbs take the clauses as their objects?
The complement of the bear in “you cannot bear” is “what it is your fate to be required to bear” and means “the things that you must bear.” The infinitive clause “to be required to bear” answers not the question “What can can you not bear?” but “Of what facet of your fate do we speak?”
The syntax here is quite distinct from that in “They would hate Jim to sell his boat.”
Verbs that can be followed by objects that are infinitive clauses include agree, begin, decide, hope, intend, like, plan, and propose. Not all the transitive verbs can use an infinite clause as object.
