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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 Works of William Shakespeare: Macbeth. Hamlet. King Lear. Othello ... - Page 261
by William Shakespeare - 1866
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The Works of William Shakspeare: The Text Formed from an Intirely ..., Volume 7

William Shakespeare - 1843 - 652 pages
...as if we were villains by necessity; fools, by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treachers7, by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers,...man, to lay his goatish disposition to the charge of stars8! My father compounded with my mother under the dragon's tail, and my nativity was under ursa...
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The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare: Printed from the Text ..., Volume 6

William Shakespeare - 1844 - 554 pages
...do it carefully. — And the noble and true-hearted Kent banished! his offence, honesty! — 'I is strange. [Exit. Edm. This is the excellent foppery...man, to lay his goatish disposition to the charge of stars! My father compounded with my mother under the dragon's tail , and my nativity was under ursa...
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Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen, Volumes 37-39

Languages, Modern - 1865 - 1460 pages
...heavenly compulsion ; knave?, thieves, and trenchers, by spherical predominance ; drunkards, Han«, »nd adulterers, by an enforced obedience of planetary...lay his goatish disposition to the charge of a star! Lear. Act 1 Scene 2. XXVIII. „Right true: but faulty men use oftentimes To attribute their folly...
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The tragedies of Sophocles, in Engl. prose. The Oxford tr

Sophocles - 1849 - 376 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,...all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on." Act I. sc. 2. PH. Thou abhorrence, what lies dost thou coin to utter ! Thou alleging gods in pretence,...
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Three Essays on Shakespeare's Tragedy of King Lear

Sir John Robert Seeley, William Young (of the City of London School), Ernest Abraham Hart - 1851 - 170 pages
...natural order. Shakespeare teaches evidently the doctrine of— I. THE FREEDOM AND RESPONSIBILITY OF MAN. Edm. " This is the excellent foppery of the world...and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on."—Act I. Scene 2. The christian view of men, as responsible beings, is essentially different from...
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The dramatic works of William Shakspeare, from the text ..., Part 50, Volume 4

William Shakespeare - 1851 - 586 pages
...behaviour), we make guilty of our disasters, the sun, the moon, and the stars : as if we were villians by necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion ; knaves,...to the charge of a star ! My father compounded with iny mother under the dragon's tail ; and my nativity was under ursa major ; so that it follows, I am...
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Dictionary of Shakespearian Quotations: Exhibiting the Most Forcible ...

William Shakespeare - 1851 - 462 pages
...(often the surfeit of our own behaviour) we make guiIty of our disasters, the sun, the moon, and tin: stars : as if we were villains by necessity ; fools,...by a divine thrusting on : An admirable evasion of man, to lay his goatish disposition to the charge of a star ! K . I.. i. 2. Our remedies oft in ourselves...
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Dramatic Works: From the Text of Johnson, Stevens and Reed; with ..., Volume 4

William Shakespeare - 1852 - 574 pages
...if we were villiaus by necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion ; knaves, thieves, and treachers, j by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers,...under the dragon's tail; and my nativity was under ttrsa major; so that it follows, I am rough and lecherous.— Tut, I should have been that I am, had...
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William Shakspeare's Complete Works, Dramatic and Poetic, Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1852 - 562 pages
...if we were villains by necessity ; fools, by heavenly compulsion ; knaves, thieves, and treachers,3 - futher compounded with my mother under the dragon's tail; and my nativity was under vrsa major ^ so...
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Dictionary of Shakespearian Quotations: Exhibiting the Most Forcible ...

William Shakespeare - 1853 - 444 pages
...thee the father of their idle dreams, Aud rack thee in their fancies ! MM iv. 1. PLANETARY INFLUENCE. This is the excellent foppery of the world ; that,...by a divine thrusting on : An admirable evasion of man, to lay his goatish disposition to the charge of a star I KL i. 2. Our remedies oft in ourselves...
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