 This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune, — often the surfeit of our own behaviour, — we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars...  The Plays of Shakespeare: A Thematic Guideby Victor L. Cahn - 2001 - 361 pagesNo preview available - About this book
 | William Hazlitt - 1845 - 490 pages
...from the late eclipses in the sun and moon. Edmund, who is in the secret, says when he is gone — " This is the excellent foppery of the world, that when...we are sick in fortune (often the surfeits of our ewn behavior) we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and stars : as if we were villains... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1847 - 872 pages
...And the noble and tnie-hearted Kent banished ! his offence, honesty ! — 'Tis strange. [ E.ril. Edm. e so light of it, and mocked Antonius so much, that surfeit of our own behaviour,) we make guilty of our disasters, the sun, the moon, and the stars :... | |
 | Presbyterian Church - 1847 - 632 pages
...learned men believed that the stars shaped the character and course of our lives ; that men were made " fools, by heavenly compulsion ; knaves, thieves, and...predominance ; drunkards, liars, and adulterers, by an enforced obedience of planetary influence." By casting many nativities, and noting the character manifested... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1848 - 536 pages
...Edm. This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune, (often the surfeit of our own behavior,) we make guilty of our disasters, the sun, the moon, and the stars ; as if we were villains by necessity; fools, by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and... | |
 | Sophocles - 1849 - 376 pages
...succeeding age made itself gods of all the host of heaven. On this there are gome forcible remarks in Lear; "This is the excellent foppery of the world ! that, when we are sick in fortune (often the surfeit of our behaviour) we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars : as if... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - English drama - 1849 - 400 pages
...moral quality of an action hy fixing the mind on the mere physical act alone. Ib. Edmund's speech : — This is the excellent foppery of the world ! that, when we are sick in fortune, (often the surfeit of our own behaviour,) we make guilty of our disasters, the sun, the moon, and the stars, &c.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1850 - 260 pages
...shall unfold what plaited cunning hides ; who covers faults, at last shame them derides.—COR. I., 1. This is the excellent foppery of the world ! that, when we are sick in fortune, (often the surfeit of our own behaviour,) we make guilty of our disasters, the sun, the moon, and the stars :... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 656 pages
...foppery of the world ! that, when we are siek in fortune, (often the surfeit of our own behaviour,) we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and stars : as if we were villains on neeessity ; fools by heavenly eompulsion; knaves, thieves, and treacbers", by spherieal predominanee... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 586 pages
...the noble and true-hearted Kent banish'd! his offence, honesty !— Strange ! strange ! [Exit. Edm. This is the excellent foppery of the world ! that, when we are sick in fortune (often the surfeit of our own behaviour), we make guilty of our disasters, the sun, the moon, and the stars :... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 462 pages
...thee the father of their idle dreams, And rack thee in their fancies ! MM iv. 1. PLANETARY INFLUENCE. This is the excellent foppery of the world ; that, when we are sick in fortune, (often the surfeit of our own behaviour) we make guiIty of our disasters, the sun, the moon, and tin: stars :... | |
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