 | 1864 - 492 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 traitors by spherical predominance ; drunkards, liars, antL adulterers by an enforced obedience of... | |
 | Fritz Heider - Psychology - 1982 - 340 pages
...taken from King Lear, illustrates this point: Edmund: 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;... | |
 | Leonard R. N. Ashley - England - 1988 - 330 pages
...outsider in many ways, not least in his rejection of popular Elizabethan belief in astrology in which we "make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon,...fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treachers by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers, by an enforced obedience of... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1994 - 160 pages
...offence honest. Strange, strange! [Exit] 95 EDMUND This is the excellent foppery of the world, that when we are sick in fortune, often the surfeit of...fools by heavenly compulsion, knaves, thieves, and treacherers by spiritual predominance, drunkards, liars, and adulterers 100 by an enforced obedience... | |
 | Pat Duffy Hutcheon - Social Science - 1996 - 521 pages
...Montaigne, Hobbes and Hume Michel de Montaigne (1533-92) This is an excellent foppery of the world that, when we are sick in fortune — often the surfeit...villains by necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion . . . and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on. — William Shakespeare, King Lear Erasmus... | |
 | Sir Robert Wilson - Science - 2003 - 320 pages
...will be made to it, and the author defers to Shakespeare: This 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, Moon and the stars, as if we were villains by necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion, knaves, thieves,... | |
 | Hans-Dieter Schwind, Edwin Kube, Hans-Heiner Kühne - Law - 1998 - 1106 pages
...excesses. One is the fatalistic excess, so well described by Shakespeare in King Lear (I, ii, 129): "We make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon,...villains by necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion." This fatalistic attitude brings no relief and leads to further disasters as those of the same kind... | |
 | Paul Corrigan - Business & Economics - 2000 - 260 pages
...reasons to explain them: This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick infortune - often the surfeit of our own behaviour - we make guilty...the moon, and the stars: as if we were villains by necessity,fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treachers, by spherical predominance;... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2001 - 334 pages
...offence honesty! Strange, strange! Exit EDMUND This is the excellent foppery of the world: that 11o when we are sick in fortune — often the surfeit...fools by heavenly compulsion, knaves, thieves, and treacherers by spherical predominance, drunkards, 115 liars, and adulterers by an enforced obedience... | |
 | Lisa Rosner, John Theibault - History - 2000 - 478 pages
...turn to Shakespeare again for the alternative view: "This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune — often the surfeit...fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treachers by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforced obedience of planetary... | |
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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... 
