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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 works of Shakspere, revised from the best authorities: with a memoir and ... - Page 323
by William Shakespeare - 1843
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The tragedies of Sophocles, in Engl. prose. The Oxford tr

Sophocles - 1849 - 376 pages
...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,...all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on." Act I. sc. 2. PH. Thou abhorrence, what lies dost thou coin to utter ! Thou alleging gods in pretence,...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: With a Life of the Poet, and ...

William Shakespeare - 1851 - 712 pages
...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,...under the dragon's tail ; and my nativity was under ursa major ; so that it follows I am rough and lecherous. — Tut, I should have been that I am, had...
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Three Essays on Shakespeare's Tragedy of King Lear

Sir John Robert Seeley, William Young (of the City of London School), Ernest Abraham Hart - 1851 - 170 pages
...natural order. Shakespeare teaches evidently the doctrine of— I. THE FREEDOM AND RESPONSIBILITY OF MAN. Edm. " This is the excellent foppery of the world...and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on."—Act I. Scene 2. The christian view of men, as responsible beings, is essentially different from...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: King Lear. Romeo and Juliet ...

William Shakespeare - 1851 - 532 pages
...if we were villains by necessity ; fools, by heavenly compulsion ; knaves, thieves, and treachers 2 by spherical predominance ; drunkards, liars, and...under the dragon's tail ; and my nativity was under ursa major ; so that it follows I am rough and lecherous.— Tut, I should have been that I am, had...
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The dramatic (poetical) works of William Shakspeare; illustr ..., Volume 7

William Shakespeare - 1851 - 602 pages
...if we were villains by necessity ; fools, by heavenly compulsion ; knaves, thieves, and treachers 2 by spherical predominance ; drunkards, liars, and...under the dragon's tail ; and my nativity was under ursa major ; so that it follows I am rough and lecherous. — Tut, I should have been that I am, had...
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The dramatic works of William Shakspeare, from the text ..., Part 50, Volume 4

William Shakespeare - 1851 - 586 pages
...behaviour), we make guilty of our disasters, the sun, the moon, and the stars : as if we were villians by necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion ; knaves,...to the charge of a star ! My father compounded with iny mother under the dragon's tail ; and my nativity was under ursa major ; so that it follows, I am...
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Dictionary of Shakespearian Quotations: Exhibiting the Most Forcible ...

William Shakespeare - 1851 - 462 pages
...(often the surfeit of our own behaviour) we make guiIty of our disasters, the sun, the moon, and tin: stars : as if we were villains by necessity ; fools,...by a divine thrusting on : An admirable evasion of man, to lay his goatish disposition to the charge of a star ! K . I.. i. 2. Our remedies oft in ourselves...
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Dramatic Works: From the Text of Johnson, Stevens and Reed; with ..., Volume 4

William Shakespeare - 1852 - 574 pages
...if we were villiaus by necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion ; knaves, thieves, and treachers, j by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers,...under the dragon's tail; and my nativity was under ttrsa major; so that it follows, I am rough and lecherous.— Tut, I should have been that I am, had...
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The Works of William Shakspeare, Volume 4

William Shakespeare - 1852 - 570 pages
...if we were villians by necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion ; knaves, thieves, and treachers, J by spherical predominance: drunkards, liars, and adulterers,...under the dragon's tail ; and my nativity was under ursa major; so that it follows, I am rough and lecherous. — Tut, I should have been that I am, had...
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William Shakspeare's Complete Works, Dramatic and Poetic, Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1852 - 562 pages
...if we were villains by necessity ; fools, by heavenly compulsion ; knaves, thieves, and treachers,3 - futher compounded with my mother under the dragon's tail; and my nativity was under vrsa major ^ so...
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