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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 plays of Shakspere, carefully revised [by J.O.] with a selection of engr ... - Page 707
by William Shakespeare - 1853
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Shaksperean gems, newly collected and arranged with a life of W. Shakspere ...

William Shakespeare - 1865 - 362 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...all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on." that at the period in which the above lines were written, the science of astrology had many supporters...
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Shakspeare's tragedy of King Lear, with notes, adapted for schools and for ...

William Shakespeare - 1865 - 168 pages
...fortune (often the surfeit of our own behaviour), we make guilty of our disasters the sunj the moon, and stars : as if we were villains by necessity; fools...all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on: 1 an admirable evasion of whore-master man, to lay his goatish disposition on the charge of a star...
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The Works of William Shakespeare: Macbeth. Hamlet. King Lear. Othello ...

William Shakespeare - 1866 - 788 pages
...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...: an admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition to the charge of a star ! My father compounded with my mother under the dragon's...
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King Lear ; Cymbeline ; Titus Andronicus

William Shakespeare - 1867 - 364 pages
...behaviour,) we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and stars : as if we were villains on necessity ; fools by heavenly compulsion ; knaves,...on. An admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition on the charge of a star ! My father compounded with my mother under the dragon's...
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Quotations from Shakespeare, a collection of passages selected and arranged ...

William Shakespeare - 1867 - 188 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...all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on :—Act 1, Sc. 2. * Tickell has expressed the same idea in his poem, "To a Lady, with a Present of...
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The Handy-volume Shakspeare [ed. by Q.D.].

William Shakespeare - 1867 - 724 pages
...behaviour,) we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and stars : as if we were villains on necessity ; fools by heavenly compulsion ; knaves,...on. An admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition on the charge of a star ! My father compounded with my mother under the dragon's...
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The Stratford Shakspere: Romeo & Juliet. Timon of Athens. Hamlet. King Lear ...

William Shakespeare - 1867 - 706 pages
...behaviour,) we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and stars : as if we were villains on necessity ; fools by heavenly compulsion ; knaves,...: An admirable evasion of whore-master man, to lay his goatish disposition on the charge of a star'! My father compounded with my mother under the dragon's...
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Shakespeare Illustrated by Old Authors, Part 2

William Lowes Rushton - 1868 - 82 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...: an admirable evasion of whore-master man, to lay his goatish disposition to the charge of a star. Lear, Act i. Sc. 2. Right true : but faulty men use...
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Human Life in Shakespeare, Volume 10

Henry Giles - 1868 - 298 pages
...of the world 1 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...all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on." And that which includes both man and nature, yet belongs to nature only by means of man, — , that...
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Astronomical Register: A Medium of Communication for Amateur ..., Volume 10

1873 - 336 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...all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on :" . . . The rest of the passage is equally witty, but scarcely suited for public reading now. King...
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