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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... "
Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions ... - Page 100
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The Reflector: A Quarterly Magazine, on Subjects of Philosophy ..., Volume 2

Leigh Hunt - English literature - 1811 - 510 pages
...of my harmless deeds, That did not belter 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 dyer's hand Or that other confession : — Alas ! 'tis true, I have gone here and there, And made myself...
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Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale, Volume 1

William Shakespeare - English drama (Comedy) - 1872 - 480 pages
...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 goddess of my harmful...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 Works of Charles Lamb: In Two Parts, Volume 2

Charles Lamb - 1818 - 288 pages
...of my harmless deeds, That did ndt hetter 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 dyer's hand Or that other confession : — Alas! 'tis true, I have gone here and there, And made myself...
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The New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal, Volume 45

English literature - 1835 - 564 pages
...wonderful creations, with the throes of which his breast was heaving then : — " Oh, for my sake do you with Fortune chide The guilty Goddess of my harmful...in, like the dyer's hand ! Pity me, then, and wish T were renew'dt * Sonnet CO. i Sonnet 111. In this, addressed, as all the sonnets of this description...
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The Literary Character, Volume 2

Isaac Disraeli - Authors, English - 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...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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The Retrospective Review, Volume 7

Books - 1823 - 428 pages
...of love. Now all is done, save what shall have no end, &c." And again in the 1 1 1 th Sonnet : " O for my sake do thou with fortune chide, The guilty...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 1 were renew'd ; Whilst,...
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The Retrospective Review, Volume 7

Books - 1823 - 428 pages
...best of love. Now 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...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 1 were renew'd; Whilst, like...
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The Dramatic Works of Shakespeare

William Shakespeare - 1826 - 216 pages
...deeds, That (lid not better for my life provide, Than public means, which public manners In-red:,. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And...dyer's hand. Pity me then, and wish I were renew'd ; rhilst, like a willing patient, I will drink Potions of cysell, 'gainst my strong infection; No bitterness...
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Specimens of the Lyrical, Descriptive, and Narrative Poets of Great Britain ...

John Johnstone (of Edinburgh.) - English poetry - 1828 - 600 pages
...seem'd it winter still, and, you away, As with your shadow I with these did play. O FOII my sake do you with fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful...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 renew'd ; Whilst,...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare, Volume 8

William Shakespeare, William Harness - 1830 - 654 pages
...newer proof, to try an older friend, A God in love, to whom I am connn'd. CXI. O for my sake do you with fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful...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 renew'd; Whilst, like...
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