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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 - Page 638
by William Shakespeare - 1857
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Poems, with illustrative remarks [ed. by W.C. Oulton]. To which is ..., Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1804 - 268 pages
...fortune chide The guilty goddess of my harmless deeds, That did not better for my life provide, Thau public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes...wish I were renew'd : Whilst like a willing patient 1 will drink Potions of eysel 'gainst my strong infection, No bitterness, that I will bitter think,...
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The Poems of William Shakespeare: Comprehending Venus and Adonis, Tarquin ...

William Shakespeare - 1808 - 224 pages
...goddess of my harmless deeds, That did not better for my life provide, Than publick means which publick manners breeds. Thence comes it, that my name receives...Whilst like a willing patient I will drink Potions of eysel 'gainst my strong infection ; Nor double penance to correct correction. Pity me then, dear friend,...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including ..., Volume 5

Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 728 pages
...my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide, Than public means, which public manner* breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand,...Whilst, like a willing patient, I will drink Potions of eyesell, 'gainst my strong infection ; No bitterness that I will bitter think, Nor double penance to...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper, Volume 5

Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 746 pages
...harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide, Than public means, which public manners breed*. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And...Whilst, like a willing patient, I will drink Potions of eyesell, 'gainst my strong infection ; No bitterness that I will bitter think, Nor double penance to...
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The Works of William Shakespeare: In Nine Volumes, Volume 9

William Shakespeare - 1812 - 372 pages
...goddess of my harmless deeds, That did not better for my life provide, Than publick means which publick manners breeds. Thence comes it, that my name receives...subdu'd To what it works in, like the dyer's hand, Pity ma then, and wish I were renew'd ; Whilst like a willing patient I will drink Potions of eysel 'gainst...
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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 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 Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections ..., Volume 20

William Shakespeare - 1821 - 486 pages
...of appearing on the stage, or writing for the theatre. MALONE. See the Preliminary Remarks. BOSWELL. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand ; And...Whilst, like a willing patient, I will drink Potions of eysell, 'gainst my strong infection J ; No bitterness that I will bitter think, Nor double penance,...
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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 Retrospective Review, Volume 7

1823 - 428 pages
...all is done, save what shall have no end, &c." And again in the lllth Sonnet: " O for my sake do thou with fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful...works in, like the dyer's hand. Pity me then, and wish 1 were renew'd; Whilst, like a willing patient, I will drink, &c." The three following are well known,...
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