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 Oxford Shakespeare: The History of King Lear - Page 121by William Shakespeare - 2001 - 336 pagesLimited preview - About this book
| William Shakespeare - 1814 - 528 pages
...offence, honesty ! — Strange, strange ! [Exit . Edm. 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 ourdisasters, the sun, the moon, and the stars: as if we were villains, by necessity ; fools, by heavenly... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1817 - 392 pages
...gone—" 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 we were villains on necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion ; knaves, thieves, and treacherous... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1818 - 346 pages
...offence, honesty ! Strange ! strange ! [Exit. Edm. This is the excellent foppery of the world ! that, when we are, sick in fortune, (often the surfeit of...fools, by heavenly compulsion ; knaves, thieves, and treachers*, by spherical predominance ; drunkards, liars, and adulterers, by an enforced obedience... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1818 - 342 pages
..." 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 we were villains on necessity ; fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treacherous... | |
| Samuel Butler - 1819 - 402 pages
...in King Lear, act I. vol. 5. p. 118, 119. Edmund. "This is the excellent foppery of the world, that when we are sick in fortune, (often the surfeit of...fools by heavenly compulsion, knaves, thieves, and treachers by spherical predominance : drunkards, lyars, and adulterers by an inforced obedience of... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1819 - 646 pages
...offence, honesty! — Strange! strange ! ££ Edm. This is the excellent foppery of the world ! that, when we are sick in fortune, (often the surfeit of...; fools, by heavenly compulsion ; knaves, thieves, nnd trenchers, by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers, by an enforced obedience... | |
| Samuel Butler - 1819 - 584 pages
...had ne'er been born." And in Lear, Edmund says, "This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune, (often the surfeit of...behaviour,) we make guilty of our disasters the sun, moon, and stars ; as if we were villains on necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion, knaves, thieves,... | |
| mrs. Kelly - 1821 - 572 pages
...VOLUMES. BT MRS. KELLY, AUTHOR OF THE MATRON OF ERIN, 40. This is the excellent foppery of the world. that when we are sick in fortune, (often the surfeit of...disasters, the sun, the moon, and the stars ; as if we were Tillains by necessity— fools by heavenly compulsion— knaves, thieves, and treachers, by spherical... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1821 - 588 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, the moon, and the stars : as if we were villaius by necessity ; fools, by heavenly compulsion ; knaves, thieves, and ireachers $, by spherical... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1821 - 512 pages
...we owe this, as well as most other unnatural crimes and follies of these latter ages fomented that, when we are sick in fortune, (often the surfeit of our own behaviour,) we make guilty of our its original impiety to the most detestable height of extravagance. Petrus Aponensis, an Italian physician... | |
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