 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 - Pągina 121per William Shakespeare - 2001 - 336 pąginesPrevisualització limitada - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1849
...mere physical act alone. Ib. Edmund's speech : — This is the excellent foppery of the world ! that, when we are sick in fortune, (often the surfeit of...of our disasters, the sun, the moon, and the stars, &c. Thus scorn and misanthropy are often the anticipations and mouth-pieces of wisdom in the detection... | |
 | Kodŭng Kwahagwŏn (Korea). International Conference, Kenji Fukaya - 2001 - 498 pągines
...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 we were villains on necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion, knaves, thieves, and treachers... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 2001
...mere physical act alone. Ib. Edmund's speech : — 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 disasters, the sun, the moon, and the stars, &c. Thus scorn and misanthropy... | |
 | W. H. Auden - 2002 - 398 pągines
...But Edmund rejects laying sins off on the stars: 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;... | |
 | Millicent Bell - 2002 - 283 pągines
...says, "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;... | |
 | Marijane Osborn - 2002 - 350 pągines
...articulate and clever one. Chaucer is as ironic about her views as Edmund is ironic in Xing Lear about how "we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon,...and the stars, as if we were villains by necessity." Neither Shakespeare's Edmund nor Chaucer accepts as an excuse "an enforc'd obedience of planetary influence"... | |
 | Leslie O'Dell - 2002 - 413 pągines
...excellent foppery of the world, diat when we are sick in fortune, often die 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, Thieves, and Treachers by Spherical predominance.... | |
 | Margaret Sönser Breen - 2003 - 222 pągines
...world. that. when we are sick in fortune.—often the surfeit of our own hehav iour.~we make guihy of our disasters the sun. the moon. and the stars: as if we were villains hy necessity; fools hy heavenly compulsion: knaves. thieves. and treachers. hy spherical predominance;... | |
 | J. Philip Newell - 2003 - 134 pągines
...matters: 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... | |
 | Robert Sawyer - 2003 - 172 pągines
...predisposition Edmund so carefully describes in Lear: 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 disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars;... An admirable evasion... | |
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