 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
 | Charles Lamb - 1836 - 404 pages
...profession 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 — Thence comes it that my name receives a brand ; And almost thence my nature is subdued... | |
 | Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - 1837 - 394 pages
...and of having made himself " a motley to men's view^f are undoubtedly addressed to Lord Southampton. O, for my sake, do you with fortune chide The guilty...deeds, That did not better for my life provide, Than publick means, which public manners breeds ; Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost... | |
 | 1837 - 608 pages
...Shakspeare so sweetly put forward in his double character of dramatist aud actor in his own excuse : ' Oh, for my sake, do you with fortune chide, The guilty...harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide, Thau public means, which public manners breeds. '. hence comes it that my name receives a brand, And... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1838 - 484 pages
...pure and most most loving breast. Poe ms. 776 The same. O for my sake do thou with Fortune chide,q The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not...Whilst, like a willing patient, I will drink Potions of eysell,' 'gainst my strong infection ; i The editor is confident that our author, who was so sound... | |
 | Francis Lister Hawks - 1838 - 542 pages
...raptures on first beholding them." * O, for my sake do you with fortune chide,' The guilty goddess of mv harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide...thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like a dyer's hand. In some of Shakspeare's plays we find now and then a vile, coarse scene introduced,... | |
 | Caleb Sprague Henry, Joseph Green Cogswell - 1838 - 546 pages
...those divine performances, made pretensions to instantaneous raptures on first beholding them." • O, for my sake do you with fortune chide, The guilty...public means, which public, manners breeds. Thence conies it that my name receives a brand ; And almost theuce my nature is subdued To what it works in,... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1838 - 486 pages
...profession 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 — Thence comes it that my name receives a brand ; And almost thence my nature is subdued... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Thomas Price - 1839 - 480 pages
...heaven the best, E'en to thy pure and most loving breast. Poems. 776 The same. O for my sake do thou with Fortune chide,* The guilty goddess of my harmful...Whilst, like a willing patient, I will drink Potions of eysell,f 'gainst my strong infection ; * The editor is confident that our author, who was so sound... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1839 - 418 pages
...degradation by a novel image. " Chide Fortune," cries the hard, — *' 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Thomas Price - 1839 - 478 pages
...heaven the best, E'en to thy pure and most loving breast. Poems. 776 The same. O for my sake do thou with Fortune chide,* The guilty goddess of my harmful...public means, which public manners breeds. Thence conies it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in,... | |
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