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
| Robert Chambers - 1844 - 692 pages
...harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide, Than public means, which public manners brwK s hollow and blind ; With drooping cheer íike the dyer's hnud. Pity me then, and wish I were renewM ; SHAKSPEABE, Whilst, lite a willing patient,... | |
| James Schiffer - 2000 - 500 pages
...speaker enfolds a coercive request for patronage, love, and respect in a disingenuous call for pity: O for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty...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... | |
| John McManners - 1999 - 854 pages
...ideal. The instrument is always affected by the material it works on. My nature is subdu'd To what it works in, like the dyer's hand; Pity me then, and wish I were renewed. 12 THE 'BON CURÉ' l Upon my word of honour, and speaking the simple truth, I say that if... | |
| Thomas Hardy - 1999 - 524 pages
...reproach in his own belying his words. Then he drew his hand quite away from hers, and i subdued in] "And almost thence my nature is subdued / To what it works in, like the dyer's hand" (Shakespeare: Sonnet in). "I knew you would be angry!" she said with an air of no emotion... | |
| James Schiffer - 2000 - 500 pages
...speaker enfolds a coercive request for patronage, love, and respect in a disingenuous call for pity: O for my sake do you with Fortune chide. The guilty goddess of my haimfiil deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds.... | |
| Thomas Hardy - 1998 - 324 pages
...the mere sensation of having been near her, he himself could hardly have determined. CHAPTER IV Oh, for my sake, do you with fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deed That did not better for my life provide. Now commenced a period during which Egbert Mayne's emotions... | |
| R. A. Foakes - 2000 - 332 pages
...the theatre, which brands his name like an infection.1" Here is the relevant portion of Sonnet 111: O for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty...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,... | |
| Park Honan - 1998 - 522 pages
...strangely. The public stage even now colours him like a dye: 'my name receives a brand', he declares, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand. Pity me then. One scandal burns, whether or not he refers to the name 'Greene' in 'o'er-green' — a word used only... | |
| John Sutherland, Cedric Watts - 2000 - 244 pages
...with genial hedonism; but, just as he could sometimes express disgust at his own chosen profession ('And almost thence my nature is subdued | To what it works in, like the dyer's hand'; 'Alas, 'tis true, I have gone here and there | And made myself a motley to the view'),... | |
| Dennis Kezar Assistant Professor of English Vanderbilt University - 2001 - 282 pages
...a vocational "infection" that has marked him with a damned spot: The guilty goddess of my harmfull deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than...my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand. (lines 2-7) Not only is this plainant's name passively branded with the social stigma... | |
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