 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 Beautiful in Nature, Art, and Life - Page 218by Andrew James Symington - 1857Full view - About this book
 | Robert Sawyer - 2003 - 182 pages
...(254). This attitude sounds similar to the type of predisposition Edmund so carefully describes in Lear: This is the excellent foppery of the world, that,...are sick in fortune, often the surfeit of our own behavior, we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars;... An admirable evasion... | |
 | Gil Richard Musolf - 2003 - 372 pages
...from King Lear. Determinism in the stars? Even Edmund knew that that was rationalization and evasion. This is the excellent foppery of the world, that when we are sick in fortune, often the surfeits of our own behavior, we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and stars; as if we... | |
 | J. Philip Newell - 2003 - 148 pages
...influences on our lives. Self-determination and the power of the will, he contends, is all that matters: This is the excellent foppery of the world, that when we are sick in fortune - often the surfeits of our own behaviour - we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and stars, as if... | |
 | Margaret Sönser Breen - 2003 - 242 pages
...world. that. when we are sick in fortune.—often the surfeit of our own hehav iour.~we make guihy of our disasters the sun. the moon. and the stars: as if we were villains hy necessity; fools hy heavenly compulsion: knaves. thieves. and treachers. hy spherical predominance;... | |
 | Bill Manville, William Henry Manville - 2003 - 300 pages
...seem to be married to her. Your question raises an important issue for addicts. Blaming others. . . . 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... | |
 | Mary Anneeta Mann - 2004 - 230 pages
...from the mean. This in part is what Gloucester is trying to do and his son Edmund jeers at him for it: This is the excellent foppery of the world, that when...surfeit of our own behaviour we make guilty of our disaster the sun, the moon, and the stars, as if we were villains by necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion,... | |
 | Donna Woodford - 2004 - 216 pages
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