 | Burton F. Porter - Philosophy - 2001 - 336 pages
...epitaph: This is the excellent foppery of the world, that when we are sick in fortune, often the surfeits of our own behaviour, we make guilty of our disasters...sun, the moon, and the stars; as if we were villains on necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treachers, by spherical predominance;... | |
 | Robert Brustein - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 322 pages
...blame. As Shakespeare's Edmund puts it, in King Lear, "This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune — often the surfeit...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... | |
 | Joseph Twadell Shipley - Foreign Language Study - 2001 - 688 pages
...that, when we are sick in fortune-often the surfeit of our own behaviour-we make guilty of our own disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars; as if...fools by heavenly compulsion, knaves, thieves and treachers by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars and adulterers by an enforced obedience of planetary... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2001 - 448 pages
...236, 237. Planet, that will strike Where 'tis predominant] Cf. Edmund's speech in Lear, I, ii, 1 14 : 'we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars ; as if we were villains on necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion, knaves, thieves, and treachers, by spherical predominance,... | |
 | Wystan Hugh Auden - Drama - 2002 - 428 pages
...But Edmund rejects laying sins off on the stars: This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune, often the surfeit of...sun, the moon, and the stars; as if we were villains on necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treachers by spherical predominance;... | |
 | Millicent Bell - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 316 pages
...says, "This is the excellent foppery of the world, that when we are sick in fortune, often the surfeits of our own behaviour, we make guilty of our disasters...sun, the moon and the stars, as if we were villains on necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion, knaves, thieves and treachers by spherical predominance;... | |
 | Marijane Osborn - Poetry - 2002 - 380 pages
...articulate and clever one. Chaucer is as ironic about her views as Edmund is ironic in Xing Lear about how "we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon,...and the stars, as if we were villains by necessity." Neither Shakespeare's Edmund nor Chaucer accepts as an excuse "an enforc'd obedience of planetary influence"... | |
 | Bill Manville, William Henry Manville - Body, Mind & Spirit - 2003 - 300 pages
...addicts. Blaming others. . . . when we are sick in fortune — often the surfeit of our own behavior — we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon,...villains by necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion ... an admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition to the charge of a star.... | |
 | Mark Allen McDonald - Drama - 2004 - 334 pages
...excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune, often the surfeits of our own behavior, we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars; as if we were villains on necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion, knaves, theives, and treachers by spherical predominance,... | |
 | Mary Anneeta Mann - Mimesis in literature - 2004 - 230 pages
...trying to do and his son Edmund jeers at him for it: 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 disaster the sun, the moon, and the stars, as if we were villains by necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion,... | |
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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... 
