 | Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...is not love When it is mingled with regards that stand Aloof from the entire point. 10313 King Lear y. Thou canst not then be false to any man. 10196 Hamlet But to my mind own disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars. 10314 King Lear Have more than thou showest. Speak... | |
 | Lisa Rosner, John Theibault - History - 2000 - 478 pages
...liquids, and listening to soothing music. But we can turn to Shakespeare again for the alternative view: "This is the excellent foppery of the world, that,...fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treachers by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforced obedience of planetary... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2001 - 334 pages
...offence honesty! Strange, strange! Exit EDMUND This is the excellent foppery of the world: that 11o when we are sick in fortune — often the surfeit...fools by heavenly compulsion, knaves, thieves, and treacherers by spherical predominance, drunkards, 115 liars, and adulterers by an enforced obedience... | |
 | Jean-Marie Pradier - Performing arts - 2000 - 356 pages
...foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune, - often the surfeit of our own behaviours, - 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2000 - 324 pages
...of the world, that 112 when we are sick in fortune — often the surfeit of our 113 own behavior - we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon,...fools by heavenly compulsion, knaves, thieves, and treacherers by spherical predominance, drunkards, 117 liars, and adulterers by an enforced obedience... | |
 | Robert Brustein - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 322 pages
...the true explanations are beyond concepts of blame. As Shakespeare's Edmund puts it, in King Lear, "This is the excellent foppery of the world, that,...of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars. . . . 'Sfoot! I should have been that I am had the maidenliest star in the firmament twinkled on my... | |
 | Wystan Hugh Auden - Drama - 2002 - 428 pages
...We have seen the best of our time. (I.ii.l 12-23) But Edmund rejects laying sins off on the stars: This is the excellent foppery of the world, that,...sun, the moon, and the stars; as if we were villains on necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treachers by spherical predominance;... | |
 | Mary Anneeta Mann - Mimesis in literature - 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,... | |
 | Irving Ribner - Art - 2005 - 232 pages
...phenomena of nature which was so integral a part of the Elizabethan doctrine of order and degree : This is the excellent foppery of the world, that,...fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treachers, by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers, by an enforced obedience of... | |
 | Sue Young - Body, Mind & Spirit - 2005 - 165 pages
...state. lts presence proves our feet upon the path. Permission to proceed with wisdom is all we need now. "This is the excellent foppery of the world, that...necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion, knaves, thieves, drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforced obedience of planetary influence ..." COMMON SENSE... | |
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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;... 
