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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 Complete Works of Shakspeare, Revised from the Best Authorities : with a ... - Page 308
by William Shakespeare - 1857
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The University Shakespeare journal, Volume 1

1886 - 152 pages
...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...influence; and all that we are evil in by a Divine thrusting on." QUEEIES COLUMN. I beg to submit the following answers to the queries propounded in your...
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Complete Works of Shakespeare, Volume 4

William Shakespeare - 1887 - 888 pages
...lose thee nothing ; do it carefully. — And the noble and true-hearted Kent banished ! his offence, honesty ! — Strange ! strange ! [Exit. Edm. This...treachers by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars, arid adulterers, by an enforced obedience of planetary influence ; and all that we are evil in, by...
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Tragedies: in English Prose: The Oxford Translation

Sophocles - 1887 - 372 pages
...is the excellent foppery of the world ! that, when we are sick in fortune (often the surfeit of our behavior), we make guilty of our disasters the sun,...influence ; and all that we are evil in by a divine thrusting on." — Act 1, sc. 2. Рн. Thou abhorrence, what lies dost thou coin to utter! Thou alleging...
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Wit, Wisdom, and Beauties of Shakespeare

William Shakespeare - 1887 - 236 pages
...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,...influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on. LEAR. Act 1, Sc. 2,1.106. Hear, Nature, hear! dear goddess, hear ! Suspend thy purpose,...
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Julius Caesar

William Shakespeare - 1890 - 224 pages
...the common belief of the time in the influence of the stars upon a man's life, cp. Lear, i. 2. 130-6, "We make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon,...by an enforced obedience of planetary influence." 141. underlings, inferiors, and contentedly inferiors, not endeavouring to raise ourselves. The suffix...
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Shakespeare's Tragedy of King Lear

William Shakespeare - Aging parents - 1895 - 220 pages
...that when we are sick in fortune — often the surfeit of our own behaviour — we make guilty of i 30 our disasters the sun, the moon and the stars : as...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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The Great Poets and Their Theology

Augustus Hopkins Strong - Poetry - 1897 - 592 pages
...villain in "King Lear" (1:2: 1 08), acknowledges that this is only the insincere apology of the guilty : This is the excellent foppery of the world, that,...sun, the moon, and the stars ; as if we were villains of necessity ; fools by heavenly compulsion ; knaves, thieves, and treachers, by spherical predominance...
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The Twentieth Century, Volume 64

Nineteenth century - 1908 - 1088 pages
...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,...influence ; and 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,...
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Elizabethan Popular Culture

Leonard R. N. Ashley - England - 1988 - 330 pages
...outsider in many ways, not least in his rejection of popular Elizabethan belief in astrology in which we "make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon,...by an enforced obedience of planetary influence.. . ." Most Elizabethans put faith in astrology. John Maplet fd. 7592) in The Dial of Destiny (1581)...
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King Lear

William Shakespeare - Drama - 1990 - 324 pages
...fortune, often the surfeit of our own behaviour, we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the H5 moon, and stars; as if we were villains by necessity, fools...influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on. An admirable evasion 120 of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition to the charge...
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