 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...  Museum of Foreign Literature and Science - Page 282edited by - 1835Full view - About this book
 | 1837 - 608 pages
...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 almost thence my naturc is subdued To what ii works in, like Ihe dyer's hand; Pity me then, and wish I were renewed.'... | |
 | Charles Lamb - English literature - 1838 - 376 pages
...Than public means which public custom breeds — Thence comes it that my name receives a brand ; Aud almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works...have gone here and there, And made myself a motley to thy view, Gor'd mine own thoughts, sold cheap what is most dear— Who can read these instances of... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1838 - 484 pages
...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,...my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand. Pity me then, and wish I were renew'd; Whilst, like a willing patient, I will drink Potions... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1838 - 486 pages
...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...my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dier's hand" — Or that other confession : — " Alas ! 'tis true, I have gone here and there, And... | |
 | Francis Lister Hawks - 1838 - 542 pages
...of mv 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;...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,... | |
 | 1834 - 602 pages
...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 To that it works in, like the dyer's hand." Mr. Wordsworth has no cause, like itfiakspeare, to chide with... | |
 | Charles Armitage Brown - Autobiography in literature - 1838 - 326 pages
...the reproach cast on it by the world. This is bitterly and powerfully expressed in these lines : " Alas ! 'tis true I have gone here and there, And made myself a "motley to the view, Gored mine own thoughts." * * * * " O for my sake, do thou with fortune chide, The guilty goddess of... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1838 - 1130 pages
...unimportant labour and undignified publicity. In the hundred and tenth he t-ii'laims, ' Alas, 'tis true 1 Don JOHN and BORACHIO. D. John. It is so ; the count Claud view.1 And again, in the hundred and eleventh ; with indent allusion to his being obliged to appear... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Thomas Price - 1839 - 480 pages
...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,...my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand. Pity me then, and wish I were renew'd ; Whilst, like a willing patient, I will drink Potions... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - Authors, English - 1839 - 418 pages
...of my harmless 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...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... | |
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