 O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued...  The Works of William Shakespeare - Page lxxviiby William Shakespeare - 1857Full view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - 1804 - 268 pages
...fortune chide The guilty goddess of my harmless deeds, That did not better for my life provide, Thau public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes...my nature is subdu'd To what it works in, like the dyer's hand. Pity me then, and wish I were renew'd : Whilst like a willing patient 1 will drink Potions... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 728 pages
...me welcome, next my Heaven the best, Even to thy pure and most most loving breast. SONNET CXf. O FOJ my sake do you with fortune chide, The guilty goddess...for my life provide, Than public means, which public manner* breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdu'd... | |
 | William Shakespeare - English drama (Comedy) - 1872 - 480 pages
...offences of affections new: Most true it is, that I have look'd on truth Askance and strangely. " 0, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty...name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdn'd To what it works in, like the dyer's hand. •' Accuse me thus: That I have scanted all Wherein... | |
 | Nathan Drake - Dramatists, English - 1817 - 708 pages
...of procuring subsistence, may be fairly deduced from the language of his ninety-first sonnet : — " O for my sake do you with fortune chide, The guilty...deeds, That did not better for my life provide, Than publick means, which publick manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost... | |
 | English literature - 1835 - 564 pages
...give forth those wonderful creations, with the throes of which his breast was heaving then : — " Oh, for my sake do you with Fortune chide The guilty Goddess...name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand ! Pity me, then, and wish T were renew'dt * Sonnet... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 486 pages
...confin'd. Then give me welcome, next my heaven the best, Even to thy pure and most most loving breast. CXI. O, for my sake do you with fortune chide ", The guilty...deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than publick means, which publick manners breeds9. The meaning seems to be, ' I have wounded my own thoughts... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - Authors, English - 1822 - 344 pages
...degradation by a novel image. " Chide Fortune," cries the bard, — " The guilty goddess of my harmless deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than...receives a brand ; And almost thence my nature is. subdued To what it works in, LIKE THE DYER'S HAND." Such is the fate of that author, who, in his variety... | |
 | Books - 1823 - 428 pages
...done, save what shall have no end, &c." And again in the 1 1 1 th Sonnet : " O for my sake do thou with fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful...my nature is subdu'd To what it works in, like the dyer's hand. Pity me then, and wish 1 were renew'd ; Whilst, like a willing patient, I will drink,... | |
 | Books - 1823 - 428 pages
...all is done, save what shall have no end, &c." And again in the lllth Sonnet: " O for my sake do thou with fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful...my nature is subdu'd To what it works in, like the dyer's hand. Pity me then, and wish 1 were renew'd; Whilst, like a willing patient, I will drink, &c."... | |
 | John Johnstone (of Edinburgh.) - English poetry - 1828 - 600 pages
...those. Yet seem'd it winter still, and, you away, As with your shadow I with these did play. O FOII my sake do you with fortune chide, The guilty goddess...my nature is subdu'd To what it works in, like the dyer's hand. Pity me then, and wish I were renew'd ; Whilst, like a willing patient, I will drink Potions... | |
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