 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 Charles Lamb: In Two Parts - Page 19by Charles Lamb - 1818Full view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - 1804 - 268 pages
...my harmless deeds, That did not better for my life provide, Thau public means which public manners 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 renew'd : Whilst like... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1808 - 224 pages
...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 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 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, 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 - 1812 - 380 pages
...my harmless deeds, That did not better for my life provide, Than public means which publick manners 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 renew'd ; Whilst like... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1812 - 372 pages
...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 a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdu'd To what it works in, like the dyer's hand, Pity ma then, and wish I were renew'd ; Whilst like... | |
 | 1815 - 554 pages
...for ray sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmless deeds, That did uot better for my life provide Than public means which public...name receives a brand; And almost thence my nature i* subdued To what it works in, like the dier's hand—. Or that other confession : — Alas 1 'tis... | |
 | William Shakespeare - English drama (Comedy) - 1872 - 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, 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... | |
 | Nathan Drake - Dramatists, English - 1817 - 708 pages
...my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide, Than publick means, which publick manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdu'd To what it works in." It appears strongly indeed, from the best of all evidence, that of his... | |
 | English literature - 1835 - 564 pages
...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,...my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand ! Pity me, then, and wish T were renew'dt * Sonnet CO. i Sonnet 111. In this, addressed,... | |
 | 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 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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