 | English essays - 1839 - 722 pages
...King Lear, act 1st, Edmund says, " This ia the excellent foppery of the world, that when we are lick in fortune (often the surfeit of our own behaviour), we make guilty of our disasters the Sun, Moon, and Stars ; as if we were villains on necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1841 - 312 pages
...the noble and true-hearted Kent banished ! his offence, honesty ! — Strange ! strange ! [Exit. Edm. This is the excellent foppery of the world ! that,...are sick in fortune, (often the surfeit of our own behavior) we make guilty of our disasters, the sun, the moon, and the stars ; as if we were villains... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1842 - 340 pages
...the noble and true-hearted Kent banished ! his offence, honesty ! — Strange ! strange ! [Exit. Edm. This is the excellent foppery of the world ! that,...are sick in fortune, (often the surfeit of our own behavior) we make guilty of our disasters, the sun, the moon, and the stars ; as if we were villains... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 2001 - 490 pages
...moral quality of an action by fixing the mind on the mere physical act alone. Ib. Edmund's speech : — This is the excellent foppery of the world ! that,...are sick in fortune (often the surfeit of our own behavior), we make guilty of our disasters, the sun, the moon, and the stars, &c. Thus scorn and misanthropy... | |
 | Thomas Mallon - Scientists - 2001 - 324 pages
...Sunday night he had found himself in Edmund, ranting with self-satisfaction in die first act of Lear: This is the 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 stars; as if we... | |
 | Kodŭng Kwahagwŏn (Korea). International Conference, Kenji Fukaya - Mirror symmetry - 2001 - 940 pages
...the stars above us, govern our conditions" (4.3.32-3). Edmund, on the other hand, scorns such views: 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 the sun, the moon, and stars; as if... | |
 | Joseph Twadell Shipley - Foreign Language Study - 2001 - 688 pages
..."These late eclipses in the sun and moon portend no good to us," his villainous bastard Edmund replies: "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 own disasters the sun, the moon,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2001 - 448 pages
...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,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2001 - 458 pages
...was born. DEIGHTON calls attention to the contempt with which Edmund (Lear, I, ii, 112) treats this ' excellent foppery of the world, that when we are sick in fortune, we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and stars.' 127. dam'd colour'd stocke] KNIGHT :'... | |
 | Wystan Hugh Auden - Drama - 2002 - 428 pages
...We have seen the best of our time. (I.ii.l 12-23) But Edmund rejects laying sins off on the stars: 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 on necessity; fools by heavenly... | |
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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... 
