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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 William Shakspeare - Page 19
by William Shakespeare - 1823
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The Expositor, Volume 4

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...
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Comin' Thro' the Rye: A Novel

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...
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King Lear

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...
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Astronomical Myths: Based on Flammarion's "History of the Heavens."

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...
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The plays and poems of William Shakespeare, ed. by J.P. Collier, Volume 6

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...
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The Twentieth Century, Volume 64

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...
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The Twentieth Century, Volume 63

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...
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The Cornhill Magazine, Volume 6

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...
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Neville Chamberlain: Volume 1, 1869-1929, Volume 1

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...
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Elizabethan Popular Culture

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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