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...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...

...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...like the dyer's hand. Pity me then, and wish I were renew'd; Whilst, like a willing patient, I will drink Potions of eysell,' 'gainst my strong infection...

...those divine performances, made pretensions to instantaneous raptures on first beholding them." • O, for my sake do you with fortune chide, The guilty...public means, which public, manners breeds. Thence conies it that my name receives a brand ; And almost theuce my nature is subdued To what it works in,...

...Than public means which public custom breeds — Thence comes it that my name receives a brand ; Aud 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 myself...

...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...

...those divine performances, made pretensions to instantaneous 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 Than public means, which public manners breeds....

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...heaven the best, E'en to thy pure and most loving breast. Poems. 776 The same. O for my sake do thou with Fortune chide,* The guilty goddess of my harmful...like the dyer's hand. Pity me then, and wish I were renew'd ; Whilst, like a willing patient, I will drink Potions of eysell,f 'gainst my strong infection...

...degradation by a novel image. " Chide Fortune," cries the hard, — *' The guilty goddess of my harmless deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than...my nature is subdued To what it works in, LIKE THE DYER'S HAND." Such is the fate of that author, who, in his variety of task-works, blue, yellow, and...