 | William Shakespeare - 1882 - 240 pagina’s
...it carefully. — 100 And the noble and true-hearted Kent banished ! his offence honesty ! — 'Tis strange ! [Exit. Edm. This is the excellent foppery...sun, the moon, and the stars : as if we were villains on necessity ; fools by heavenly compulsion ; knaves, thieves, and treachers, by spherical predominance... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 1108 pagina’s
...years before, at Stratford-on-Avon, a far greater than Tyndall proclaimed in words that will never die: 'This is the excellent foppery of the world, that,...disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars: as if we irerc villains by necessity ; fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treachera by spherical... | |
 | 1883 - 710 pagina’s
...centuries ago, were worthy of sober satire, we might quote what Shakespeare makes Edmund say of it : "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 trenchers, by spherical predominance... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1883 - 1042 pagina’s
...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,...predominance, drunkards, liars and adulterers by an enforc'd obedience of planetary influence, and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on :... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1883 - 1046 pagina’s
...foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune, — often the surfeit of onr own behaviour, — we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon,...predominance, drunkards, liars and adulterers by an enforc'd obedience of planetary influence, and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on :... | |
 | World - 1884 - 560 pagina’s
...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,...by an enforced obedience of planetary influence.' That this notion is not by any means obsolete is evident from the many thousands of 'Zadkiel's Almanack... | |
 | 1885 - 846 pagina’s
...decrepit old age. In "King Lear "Edmund well ridicules the doctrine of astrological necessity: — This is the excellent foppery of the world, that,...adulterers by an enforced obedience of planetary influence (i. 2, 128). This passage has been put forward as an example of Shakespeare's views on the subject... | |
 | 1885 - 858 pagina’s
...decrepit old age. In "King Lear "Edmund well ridicules the doctrine of astrological necessity: — This is the excellent foppery of the world, that,...fools by heavenly compulsion ; knaves, thieves, and treachcrs by spherical predominance ; drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforced obedience of... | |
 | 1885 - 568 pagina’s
...Sinful apologies for sin are forcibly illustrated in the words of Edmund in King Lear (Act 1, Sc. 2) : " This is the excellent foppery of the world, that,...villains by necessity; fools, by heavenly compulsion ; . and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on." Here is almost an echo of the prophet Jeremiah's... | |
 | Truths - 1885 - 572 pagina’s
...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,...adulterers, by an enforced obedience of planetary influ;nce ; and all that we are evil in by a divine thrusting on. lBeluSUJn. — Shakespeare. O THOUGHTS... | |
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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... 
