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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... "
The British Controversialist and Literary Magazine - Page 16
1864
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Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors, Volume 2

John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 pages
...train, blood, and birth, Are but the fading blossoms of the earth. Sir H. Wottan. DCCUCXI. Astrology is the excellent foppery of the world! that when we...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...
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Laconics; or, The best words of the best authors [ed. by J. Timbs ..., Volume 2

Laconics - 1829 - 358 pages
...of the earth. Fame, honour, beauty, state, train, blood, and birthi SirH. Wotton. DCCLXXI. Astrology is the excellent foppery of the world! that when we...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...
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A London Encyclopaedia, Or Universal Dictionary of Science, Art ..., Volume 9

Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 822 pages
...beating for his pains. A whole tribe of fops, Got 'tween asleep and awake. Shakspeare. King tear. Thi» 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, the »un, the moon, and »tars, as...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare, Volume 8

William Shakespeare, William Harness - 1830 - 654 pages
...the noble and true-hearted Kent banished ! his offence, honesty !—Strange ! strange ! [Exit. Edm. This is the excellent foppery of the world ! that,...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...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare, Volume 8

William Shakespeare, William Harness - 1830 - 638 pages
...the noble and true-hearted Kent banished ! his offence, honesty ! — Strange ! strange ! [Exit. Edm. This is the excellent foppery of the world ! that,...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...
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The Dramatic Works, Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1831 - 528 pages
...and true-hearted Kent banished! his offence, horieetv!— Strange! strange! [Exit. Êdm. This is'the 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, the moon, and the stars : as if we were villains...
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The Dramatic Works, Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1831 - 522 pages
...the noble And true-hearted Kent banished! his ofience, honestv! — Strange! strange! [Exit. Ëdin. This is the excellent foppery of the world ! that, when we are sick in fortune (often the »urfeii of our behaviour,) we make guilty of our disasters, the sun, the moon, and the stars : as...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: With Glossarial Notes, a Sketch of ...

William Shakespeare - 1832 - 1022 pages
...oflVw-e, honesty !— Snaiige! strange I [Exit. Krim. This is the excellent foppery of the world I with patience hear : and And a time Both meet to hear, and answer, such high things Till then, my disasters, the sun, the moon, and the stars ; as if we were villains by necessity : fools, by heavenly...
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Thaumaturgia, or Elucidations of the marvellous, by an Oxonian [S.R. Hole].

Samuel Reynolds Hole - 1835 - 380 pages
...it would, as Shakspeare says, " if my mother's cat had kittened. This," says our sagacious bard, " is the excellent foppery of the world, that when we are sick in fortune, (after the surfeit of our own behaviour) we make guilt of our disasters, the sun, the moon, and the...
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Thaumaturgia, Or, Elucidations of the Marvellous

Oxonian - Magicians (Illusionists) - 1835 - 380 pages
...it would, as Shakspeare says, " if my mother's cat had kittened. This," says our sagacious bard, " is the excellent foppery of the world, that when we are sick in fortune, (after the surfeit of our own behaviour) we make guilt of our disasters, the sun, the moon, and the...
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