 | William Shakespeare - 1843 - 600 sidor
...best, Even to thy pure, and most most loving breast. CXI. O ! for my sake do you with fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not...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,... | |
 | James Schiffer - 2000 - 500 sidor
...disingenuous call for pity: O for my sake do you with Fortune chide. The guilty goddess of my haimfiil deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence conies it that my name receives a brand. And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in,... | |
 | John McManners - 1999 - 854 sidor
...ideal. The instrument is always affected by the material it works on. My nature is subdu'd To what it works in, like the dyer's hand; Pity me then, and wish I were renewed. 12 THE 'BON CURÉ' l Upon my word of honour, and speaking the simple truth, I say that if... | |
 | Thomas Hardy - 1999 - 524 sidor
...reproach in his own belying his words. Then he drew his hand quite away from hers, and i subdued in] "And almost thence my nature is subdued / To what it works in, like the dyer's hand" (Shakespeare: Sonnet in). "I knew you would be angry!" she said with an air of no emotion... | |
 | R. A. Foakes - 2000 - 332 sidor
...an infection.1" Here is the relevant portion of Sonnet 111: O for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not...breeds; Thence comes it that my name receives a brand. The branded name is a "strong infection." Davies wrote as if to console Shakespeare for his hard fortune,... | |
 | Park Honan - 1998 - 522 sidor
...strangely. The public stage even now colours him like a dye: 'my name receives a brand', he declares, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand. Pity me then. One scandal burns, whether or not he refers to the name 'Greene' in 'o'er-green' — a word used only... | |
 | John Sutherland, Cedric Watts - 2000 - 244 sidor
...with genial hedonism; but, just as he could sometimes express disgust at his own chosen profession ('And almost thence my nature is subdued | To what it works in, like the dyer's hand'; 'Alas, 'tis true, I have gone here and there | And made myself a motley to the view'),... | |
 | Dennis Kezar Assistant Professor of English Vanderbilt University - 2001 - 282 sidor
...a vocational "infection" that has marked him with a damned spot: The guilty goddess of my harmfull deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than...my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand. (lines 2-7) Not only is this plainant's name passively branded with the social stigma... | |
 | Larry E. Shiner - 2001 - 386 sidor
...exclusively for the theater. Sonnet ill seems to allude to it: O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not...means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it my name receives a brand. (Lines 1-5) The "brand" Shakespeare's name received from the public theater... | |
 | Richard R. Bozorth - 2001 - 362 sidor
...susceptibility: citing the "public means" by which he has made his "livelihood," Shakespeare writes, 'Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, /...nature is subdued / To what it works in, like the dyer's hand" (96). Like Shakespeare, Byron is concerned with the infectious, self-infecting color of... | |
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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... 
