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" 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 : — as if we were villains by necessity ; fools, by heavenly compulsion... "
The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare - Page 17
by William Shakespeare, William Harness - 1830
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Shakespeare's Tragedy of King Lear

William Shakespeare - Aging parents - 1880 - 314 pages
...behaviour — we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars: as if we were villains on necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves,...all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on. Edgar — Enter EDGAR. 57 Bedlam. O, these eclipses do portend these divisions! fa, sol, la, mi. j...
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King Lear

William Shakespeare - 1880 - 676 pages
...necessity' is found nowhere else in Sh. He by heavenly compulsion, knaves, thieves, and treachers, by 116 spherical predominance, drunkards, liars, and adulterers,...admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish dispo- 120 sition to the charge of a star ! My father compounded with my mother under the dragon's...
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The Works of William Shakespeare, Volume 8

William Shakespeare - 1881 - 532 pages
...do it carefully. — And the noble and true-hearted Kent banished ! his offence, honesty ! — 'Tis strange. [Exit. Edm. This is the excellent foppery...disposition to the charge of a star ! My father compounded witli my mother under the dragon's tail ; and my nativity was under ursa major ; so that it follows,...
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King Lear

William Shakespeare - 1881 - 248 pages
...carefully. And the noble and true-hearted Kent banished ! his offence, honesty ! 'Tis strange. [Exit. 109 Edm. This is the excellent foppery of the world, that,...all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on. Edgar — Enter EDGAR. and pat he comes like the catastrophe of the old comedy : my cue is villanous...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare, Volume 3

William Shakespeare - 1881 - 820 pages
...carefully. And the noble and true-hearted Kent banished! his offence, honesty! 'Tis strange. [Exit. JSdm. This is the excellent foppery of the world, that,...all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on: 1111 admirable evasion of whoremaster man. to lay his goatish disposition to the charge of a star!...
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Tragedies

William Shakespeare - 1881 - 816 pages
...offence, honesty! Tis strange. [Eiit. Edm. This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we arc sick in fortune, — often the surfeit of our own...influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine Ihrusling on: :in admirable evasion of wliorcmastcr man, to lay his goatish disposition to the charge...
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Development of English Literature and Language, Volume 1

Alfred Hix Welsh - English language - 1882 - 558 pages
...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,...by a divine thrusting on: an admirable evasion of abominable man, to lay his goatish disposition to the charge of a star! . . . Tut, I should have been...
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The Twentieth Century, Volume 64

Nineteenth century - 1908 - 1088 pages
...world, let us ask first what Shakespeare considered the cause of sin. Listen to Edmund in K ing Lear : ' This is the excellent foppery of the world, that,...all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on.' Add the words of Cassius : i Men at some time are masters of their fates : The fault, dear Brutus,...
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The Twentieth Century, Volume 63

Nineteenth century - 1908 - 1058 pages
...sun, the moon, and the stars ; as if we were villains by necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion ; drunkards, liars, and adulterers, by an enforced obedience...lay his goatish disposition to the charge of a star. was not altogether a believer in the insistence of environment. Among other weighty thoughts on the...
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King Lear

William Shakespeare - Drama - 1972 - 356 pages
...behaviour - we make guilty of our disasters the sun, i*> the moon, and stars, as if we were villains on necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion, knaves, thieves,...influence; and all that we are evil in by a divine thrusting-on. An admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition to the charge...
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