 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...  The Oxford Shakespeare: The History of King Lear - Pàgina 121per William Shakespeare - 2001 - 336 pàginesPrevisualització limitada - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Mark Allen McDonald - 2004 - 334 pàgines
...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 - 2004 - 230 pàgines
...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,... | |
 | Jonathan Dollimore - 2004 - 420 pàgines
...metaphysically determined (and therefore unalterable): '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 we were villains on necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion ... by a divine thrusting... | |
 | Irving Ribner - 2005 - 232 pàgines
...of the Elizabethan doctrine of order and degree : 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 treachers, by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers, by an enforced obedience of... | |
 | Sue Young - 2005 - 165 pàgines
...Permission to proceed with wisdom is all we need now. "This is the excellent foppery of the world, that when we are sick in fortune, often the surfeit of...necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion, knaves, thieves, drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforced obedience of planetary influence ..." COMMON SENSE... | |
 | Harris - 2005 - 182 pàgines
...relationships he holds so dear. But it is, says Edmund, "an admirable evasion of whoremaster man," to "make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and...villains by necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion" (I, ii). In any case, by the time of the storm scene, both Lear and Gloucester have lost their faith... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2005 - 344 pàgines
...EDMOND This is the excellent foppery of the world, that when \ve 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 we were villains on necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion, knaves, thieves, and treachers... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2005 - 900 pàgines
...EDMUND 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 we were villains on necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion, knaves, thieves, and treachers... | |
 | Syd Pritchard - 2005 - 149 pàgines
...universal culprit. WS tells it as it is. Cosmic influences When we are sick infortune, Oft' the surfeits of our own behaviour, We make guilty of our disasters, The sun, the moon and stars; As if we were villains of necessity; Fools by heavenly compulsion; Knaves, thieves and treachers,... | |
 | John Channing Briggs - 2005 - 396 pàgines
...critique of his father's hypocritical use of the word: "This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune, — often the surfeit of our own behavior,— we make guilty of our own disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars; as if we were villains... | |
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