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... Sonetos - Page 240by William Shakespeare - 2004 - 327 pagesLimited preview - About this book
| Charles Dickens - 1852 - 654 pages
...In such mouths I might have coupled it • with an apt quotation from one of SHAKESPEARE'S Sonnets : My nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand: Pity me then , and wish I were rcncw'd ! But as it is wholesome that the parsimonious public should know what has been doing, and... | |
| Charles Knight - 1843 - 566 pages
...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...my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand.' But if from his professional occupation his nature was felt by him to be subdued to what... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1843 - 596 pages
...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...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 I were renew'd, Whilst,... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1843 - 600 pages
...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...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 I were renew'd, Whilst,... | |
| William Shakespeare, Sir Frederick Beilby Watson - Bible - 1843 - 264 pages
...my sake, do thou with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide, Than public means, which public manners...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 I were renew'd ; Whilst,... | |
| William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier - 1843 - 606 pages
...breeds : Thence comes it that my 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,...Whilst, like a willing patient, I will drink Potions of eysel5 'gainst my strong infection ; No bitterness that I will bitter think, Nor double penance,... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1843 - 672 pages
...hreeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a hrand ; And almost thence my nature is suhdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand : Pity me then and wish I were renewed ; Whilst like a willing patient I will drink Potions of eysell 'gainst my strong infection... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1843 - 606 pages
...breeds : Thence comes it that my 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 I were renewed, Whilst, like a willing patient, I will drink Potions of eysel 5 'gainst my strong infection... | |
| Shakespeare Society - English drama - 1844 - 132 pages
...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...nature is subdued To what it works in — like the dyer's hand." ART. XIV. — Albion, Knight ; a Moral Play. The following is a fragment of an early... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1844 - 532 pages
...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...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 I were renew'd , Whilst,... | |
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