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" 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 Works of William Shakespeare: Pericles. The tempest. The two gentlemen ... - Page 425
by William Shakespeare - 1868
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including ..., Volume 5

Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 728 pages
...me welcome, next my Heaven the best, Even to thy pure and most most loving breast. SONNET CXf. O FOJ my sake do you with fortune chide, The guilty goddess...for my life provide, Than public means, which public manner* breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdu'd...
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Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale, Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1872 - 480 pages
...offences of affections new: Most true it is, that I have look'd on truth Askance and strangely. " 0, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty...name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdn'd To what it works in, like the dyer's hand. •' Accuse me thus: That I have scanted all Wherein...
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The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare, Volume 20

William Shakespeare - 1821 - 486 pages
...youth 6, And worse essays prov'd thee my best of love. Now all is done, save what shall have no end 7 : Mine appetite I never more will grind On newer proof,...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...
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The New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal, Volume 45

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...name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand ! Pity me, then, and wish T were renew'dt * Sonnet...
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The Literary Character, Volume 2

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...receives a brand ; And almost thence 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...
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The Edinburgh Literary Journal: Or, Weekly Register of Criticism ..., Volume 5

1831 - 488 pages
...actors were regarded in his time. " O for my sake, do thou with fortune chide, The guilty godiless of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life...name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand." But he seems also to have felt that his jovial...
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The Edinburgh Literary Journal: Or, Weekly Register of Criticism ..., Volume 5

1831 - 484 pages
...time. " О for my sake, do thon with fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That aid not better for my life provide, Than public means,...name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand." But he seems also to have felt that his jovial...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 52

1834 - 864 pages
...how painfully conscious he was that he had lived unworthily of his doubly immoral spirit : — ' Oh, for my sake, do you with Fortune chide, — The guilty...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 Shakspeare, to...
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New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volume 45

Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1835 - 570 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...name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand ! Pity me, then, and wish T were renew'dt * Sonnet...
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The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, for the Year ..., Volume 158

1835 - 742 pages
...with the ensuing passage, which would have convinced him that Pope was correct in his assertion. " O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty...breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, (To bt continued.) ST. STEPHEN'S CHAPEL. (With THE atteution of the public having been so forcibly...
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