 | Reuben Post Halleck - English literature - 1900 - 512 pages
...gentleman. One of his Sonnets shows how he smarted under the disgrace attaching to his profession : — " O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty...my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life pro1ide Than public means, which public manners breeds And almost thence my nature is subdued To what... | |
 | Charles Frederick Johnson - American literature - 1900 - 566 pages
...the idea that he disliked the profession, and felt that it was not altogether a reputable one : — " O for my sake do you with fortune chide, The guilty goddess of ray harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Thau public means which public manners breeds.... | |
 | Charlotte Carmichael Stopes - 1901 - 308 pages
...; Gor'd mine own thoughts, sold cheap what is most dear, Made old offences of affections new. " Oh, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That doth not better for my life provide Than public means, which public manners breeds." 8 Southampton... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English essays - 1902 - 510 pages
...without having seen a picture, probably did not know that he had done anything extraordinary. Z. 1 ' Oh ! for my sake do you with fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmless deeds, That did not better for my life provide,. Than public means which public manners breeds.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Interracial marriage - 1903 - 400 pages
...; Q 2, 3. 164. addition] See 1V. i. 105 (note). 168. chide with] quarrel with. Sonnet cxi. begins : "O for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds." 171. stay the meat] wait for supper. Compare Richard HI. 111. ii. 122 : "'Tis like enough, for I stay... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb - 1903 - 424 pages
...who can read that affecting sonnet of Shakspeare which alludes to his profession as a player : — Oh for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmless deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public custom breeds... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1923 - 300 pages
...2, 3. 164. addition] See 1V. i. 105 (note). 1 68. chide with] quarrel with. Sonnct cxi. begins : " O for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds. 171. stay the meat] wait for supper. Compare Richard III. 111. ii. 122 : '"Tis like enough, for I stay... | |
 | American Academy of Arts and Letters - 1910 - 614 pages
...predecessor, he appealed for a more tolerant consideration of his character contaminated by the stage : "O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not for my life provide Than public means what public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my nature receives... | |
 | William Stebbing - English poetry - 1913 - 424 pages
...looked on truth Askance and strangely ! ra before he could bring himself to chide bitterly with Fortune, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works... | |
 | Brander Matthews - 1913 - 436 pages
...predecessor, he appealed for a more tolerant consideration of his character contaminated by the stage: O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmfull deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means what public manners breeds.... | |
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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... 
