 | Diane Bjorklund - Family & Relationships - 2000 - 286 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...villains by necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion." The Role of Society and Significant Others Autobiographers who thought about human motivation considered... | |
 | 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;... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1999 - 273 pages
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 | 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,... | |
 | 1984 - 472 pages
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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... 
