 | Thomas Mallon - Scientists - 2001 - 324 pages
...were villains on necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treachers by heavenly predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers by...of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition on the charge of a star. It was Roscoe Conkling he'd heard in the cut and thrust of those lines. This... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Quotations, English - 2002 - 244 pages
...stars: as if we were villains on necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves and treachers, by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars and adulterers,...of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition on the charge of a star! Edmund — Lear I.ii Come, let's away to prison: We two alone will sing like... | |
 | Wystan Hugh Auden - Drama - 2002 - 428 pages
...knaves, thieves, and treachers by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforc'd obedience of planetary influence; and all that we...lay his goatish disposition to the charge of a star! (I.ii.128-39) The other major address to nature in the play is Lear's curse against Goneril: Hear,... | |
 | Millicent Bell - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 316 pages
...stars, as if we were villains on necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion, knaves, thieves and treachers by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars and adulterers...all that we are evil in by a divine thrusting on." His "necessity," "heavenly compulsion," and "divine thrusting on" sound like references to religious... | |
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... we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars: as if we were villains by necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treachers, by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers, by an enforced obedience... 
