 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...  Readings from English History - Page 146edited by - 1879Full view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - 1804 - 268 pages
...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
...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
...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,... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English literature - 1811 - 510 pages
...did not belter for my life provide Than public means which public custom breeds— Thence comes it that my name receives a brand ; And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand Or that other confession : — Alas ! 'tis true, I have gone... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1812 - 372 pages
...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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1812 - 380 pages
...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 - English drama (Comedy) - 1872 - 480 pages
...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
...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... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1818 - 288 pages
...did ndt hetter for my life provide Than public means which public custom breeds — Thence comes it that my name receives a brand ; And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand Or that other confession : — Alas! 'tis true, I have gone... | |
 | English literature - 1835 - 564 pages
...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 what it works in, like the dyer's hand ! Pity me, then, and wish T were renew'dt * Sonnet CO. i Sonnet... | |
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