| Charles Lamb - Essays - 1835 - 440 pages
...my harmless deeds, That did not better for ray life provide , Than public means which public custom breeds — , Thence comes it that my name receives...my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand Or that other confession : — Alas! '(is true, 1 have gone here and there, And made myself... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1835 - 390 pages
...That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public custom breeds — Thence cemes 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 here and there, And made... | |
| Isaac Disraeli - 1835 - 330 pages
...* Chide Fortune/ cries the bard,— * The guilty goddess of my harmless deeds, That aid not belter for my life provide Than public means which public...Thence comes it that my name receives a brand ; And aimott thence my nature u ntbdved To what it warkt «>, LIKE THE DYER'S HAICD.' Such is the fate of... | |
| Early English newspapers - 1835 - 746 pages
...That did not better for my life provide, Than public means, which public manners breeds. Thencecomesit that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand. (To be continued.) OF ST STEPHEN'S ST. STEPHEN'S CHAPEL. (With THE attention of the public... | |
| Charles Lamb - English essays - 1836 - 404 pages
...of my harmless deeds, That did not better 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... | |
| Robert Walsh - Serial publications - 1836 - 530 pages
...harmful deeds, Than public means, which public manners breeds. That did not better for my lite provide, Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And...my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand: Whilst, like a willing patient, I will drink Pity me, then, and wish I were renew'd; Potions... | |
| Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - Women - 1837 - 394 pages
...chide The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide, Than publick means, which public manners breeds ; Thence comes...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. The last... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1838 - 484 pages
...pure and most most loving breast. Poe ms. 776 The same. O for my sake do thou with Fortune chide,q The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not...my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand. Pity me then, and wish I were renew'd; Whilst, like a willing patient, I will drink Potions... | |
| Francis Lister Hawks - 1838 - 542 pages
...raptures on first beholding them." * O, for my sake do you with fortune chide,' The guilty goddess of mv harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide...thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like a dyer's hand. In some of Shakspeare's plays we find now and then a vile, coarse scene introduced,... | |
| Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1838 - 486 pages
...of my harmless deeds, That did not better 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 dier's hand" — Or that other confession : — " Alas ! 'tis true, I have gone here and there, And... | |
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