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 William Shakspeare - Page 19by William Shakespeare - 1823Full view - About this book
| Samuel Cox, Sir William Robertson Nicoll, James Moffatt - 1876 - 496 pages
...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...fools by heavenly compulsion, knaves, thieves, and treachers by spherical predominance ; drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforced obedience of... | |
| Helen Mathers - 1876 - 526 pages
...the excellent foppery of the world, that when we are sick in fortune faften the surfeit of our own behaviour), we make guilty of our disasters, the sun,...villains by necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion." MY last little escapade has cost me dear. Not only have I been condemned to a week's imprisonment in... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1877 - 232 pages
...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...fools by heavenly compulsion ; knaves, thieves and treachers, by spherical predominance ; drunkards, liars and adulterers, by an enforced obedience of... | |
| John Frederick Blake - 1877 - 470 pages
...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,...fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treacherous, by spherical predominance ; drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforced obedience... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1878 - 590 pages
...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,...fools, by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treachers, 1 by spherical predominance ; drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforced obedience... | |
| 1908 - 1088 pages
...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...fools by heavenly compulsion ; knaves, thieves, and treachers, by spherical predominance ; drunkards, liars, and adulterers, by an enforced obedience of... | |
| 1908 - 1058 pages
...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,...villains by necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion ; drunkards, liars, and adulterers, by an enforced obedience of planetary influence ; and all that... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1899 - 1142 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...fools by heavenly compulsion ; knaves, thieves, and treachers by spherical predominance, &c." ' In " Julius Caesar " you get the same contrast; all the... | |
| David Dilks - 2002 - 684 pages
...manner of calamities to eclipses, 'that, when we are sick in fortune - often the surfeit of our own behaviour we make guilty of our disasters the Sun,...fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treachers by spherical predominance, drunkards, liars, and adulterers, by an enforced obedience of... | |
| Leonard R. N. Ashley - 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,...fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treachers by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers, by an enforced obedience of... | |
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