 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 English Poets: Chaucer to Donne - Page 460edited by - 1880Full view - About this book
 | 1815 - 628 pages
...as a player :-— • . Oh for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmless deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public custom breeds — Theuce cornea it that my name receives a brand; And almost thence my uature is subdued... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 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... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1818 - 288 pages
...of my harmless deeds, That did ndt hetter for my life provide Than public means which public custom breeds — Thence comes it that my name receives a...my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand Or that other confession : — Alas! 'tis true, I have gone here and there, And made myself... | |
 | 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...in, like the dyer's hand ! Pity me, then, and wish T were renew'dt * Sonnet CO. i Sonnet 111. In this, addressed, as all the sonnets of this description... | |
 | 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 486 pages
...best, Even to thy pure and most most loving breast. CXI. O, for my sake do you with fortune chide 8, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than publick means, which publick manners breeds 9. The meaning seems to be, ' I have wounded my own thoughts... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 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...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 of task-works, blue, yellow, and... | |
 | 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...name receives a brand, And almost thence 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,... | |
 | 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...name receives a brand, And almost thence 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1826 - 216 pages
...deeds, That (lid not better for my life provide, Than public means, which public manners In-red:,. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And...dyer's hand. Pity me then, and wish I were renew'd ; rhilst, like a willing patient, I will drink Potions of cysell, 'gainst my strong infection; No bitterness... | |
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