 | Muriel Clara Bradbrook - English drama - 1979 - 204 pages
...have been a willing choice, it was undoubtedly a wise one. Oh, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not...my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand . . . (Sonnet 1n) Forty years ago, TW Baldwin compared the players' companies to gilds,... | |
 | Samuel Schoenbaum - Biography & Autobiography - 1987 - 420 pages
...inferiority of actors; he confesses having made himself 'a motley to the view', and arraigns Fortune That did not better for my life provide Than public...Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And ahnost thence my nature is subdu'd To what it works in, like the dyer's hand. But such passing moods... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Poetry - 1992 - 220 pages
...accoglimi tu benevolmente al tuo puro, amorosissimo seno. O for my sake do you with Portune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not...breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, 5 And cdmost thence my nature is subdu'd To what it workjs in, life the dyer's hand: Pity me then,... | |
 | Meredith Anne Skura - Drama - 1993 - 348 pages
...theatrical meaning of sonnet 1 10 becomes even more primary: O for my sake do you wish fortune chide. The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds. That did not...my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand. (Son. Ill, 1-7) Now instead of referring to some isolated occasion or occasions in which... | |
 | William Shakespeare - English poetry - 1994 - 212 pages
...the best, Even to thy pure and most most loving breast. 111 O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not...Whilst, like a willing patient, I will drink Potions of eisel 'gainst my strong infection; No bitterness that I will bitter think, Nor double penance, to correct... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1995 - 196 pages
...harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. 5 Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And...like the dyer's hand. Pity me then, and wish I were renewed, Whilst like a willing patient I will drink 10 Potions of eisel 'gainst my strong infection;... | |
 | Pauline Kiernan - Drama - 1998 - 236 pages
...public stage) have encouraged the plausibility of this view: Oh, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not...name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdu'd To what it works in, like the dyer's hand. (1-7) 8 See, for example, Nancy Lindheim, 'The Shakespearean... | |
 | James Schiffer - Drama - 2000 - 500 pages
...patronage, love, and respect in a disingenuous call for pity: O for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not...like the dyer's hand. Pity me then, and wish I were renewed, Whilst like a willing patient I will drink Potions of eisel 'gainst my strong infection; No... | |
 | James Schiffer - Drama - 2000 - 500 pages
...the author transpires. In sonnet HI, for example, the goddess of fortune is to be eluded That [she] did not better for my life provide Than public means...receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued By what it works in, like the dyer's hand. (3-7) Inside the Sonnets these details are opaque. They... | |
 | R. A. Foakes - Performing Arts - 2000 - 332 pages
...an infection.1" Here is the relevant portion of Sonnet 111: O for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not...breeds; Thence comes it that my name receives a brand. The branded name is a "strong infection." Davies wrote as if to console Shakespeare for his hard fortune,... | |
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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... 
