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 Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare - Page 17by William Shakespeare, William Harness - 1830Full view - About this book
| William Shakespeare - 1880 - 526 pages
...necessity' is found nowhere else in Sh. He by heavenly compulsion, knaves, thieves, and treachers, by 116 spherical predominance, drunkards, liars, and adulterers,...admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish dispo- 120 sition to the charge of a star ! My father compounded with my mother under the dragon's... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1872 - 880 pages
...necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treachers, "* by spherical predominance-, 30 hat 's past; avoid what is to come ; And do not spread the compost on the charge of a star ! " My father compounded with my mother under the dragon's tail; aa and my... | |
| Astronomy - 1873 - 336 pages
...the poet's own opinion, the latter may perhaps be inferred from such passages as the following : " This is the excellent foppery of the world ! that,...all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on :" . . . The rest of the passage is equally witty, but scarcely suited for public reading now. King... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1874 - 626 pages
...behaviour) we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the f stars : as if we were villains by J necessity ; fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves,...of whore-master man, to lay his goatish disposition on the charge of a star ! My father compounded with my mother under the dragon's tail; and rny nativity... | |
| Oxford univ, exam. papers, 2nd publ. exam - 182 pages
...affront, mazzard, gaberdine, corollary, yare. 8. Explain with reference to the context the following (i) This is the excellent foppery of the world, that,...all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on. Edgar— Enter EDGAE. and pat he comes like the catastrophe of the old comedy: my cue is villanous... | |
| David Thomas - 1874 - 790 pages
...mere machine •worked by outward sources, the victim of fate or necessity. " This is," he says, " the excellent foppery of the world ! that, when we...all that we are evil in by a divine thrusting on." (') Again, he says, — " Our bodies are our gardens, to which our wills are gardeners ; so that if... | |
| Edward Dowden - 1875 - 448 pages
...to superstition ; and Gloucester's superstition affords some countenance to Edmund's scepticism. " This is the excellent foppery of the world, that when...influence ; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting-on." Edgar, on the contrary, the champion of right, ever active in opposing evil and advancing... | |
| Medicine - 1910 - 806 pages
...foppery of the world, that when we are sick in fortune — often the surfeit of our own behavior — we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon,...by a divine thrusting on; an admirable evasion of man, to lay his goatish disposition to the charge of a star." — SHAKESPEARE, King~_Lear. Nov., 1910.... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1875 - 234 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...all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on. Edgar— Enter EDGAR. and pat he comes like the catastrophe of the old comedy: my cue is villanous... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1924 - 236 pages
...fortune — often the surfeit of our. own behaviour— we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the mppn and the stars : as if we were villains by necessity...all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on. Edgar — Enter EDGAR. and pat he comes like the catastrophe of the old comedy : my cue is villanous... | |
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