 | William Hazlitt - English drama - 1859 - 494 pages
...late eclipses in the sun and moon. Edmund, who is in the secret, . says when he is gone — " This is the excellent foppery of the world, that when we...are sick in fortune (often the surfeits of our own behavior1* we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and stars : as if we were villains on... | |
 | Diane Bjorklund - Family & Relationships - 2000 - 286 pages
...autobiographers might use the idea of chance in the manner that Shakespeare described in King 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: as... | |
 | Jean-Marie Pradier - Performing arts - 2000 - 356 pages
...leurs traités. « C'est Vénus, dit le Liber Hermetis, qui lâche la bride à leurs vices; - « This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune, - often the surfeit of our own behaviours, - we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars :... | |
 | Samuel Anthony Barnett - Civilization - 2000 - 230 pages
...can counter the dangers in magic and in unsupported beliefs. CHAPTER 1 FASHIONS IN FAIRY TALES This is the excellent foppery of the world that when we are sick in fortune, . . . we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon and stars; as if we were villains on necessity,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2001 - 148 pages
...And the noble and true-hearted Kent banish'd! his offence, honesty! Tis strange. Exit. EDMUND This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when...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... | |
 | Thomas Mallon - Scientists - 2001 - 324 pages
...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 were villains on necessity;... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 2001 - 490 pages
...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, 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.... | |
 | Robert Brustein - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 322 pages
...true explanations are beyond concepts of blame. As Shakespeare's Edmund puts it, in King Lear, "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.... | |
 | Joseph Twadell Shipley - Foreign Language Study - 2001 - 688 pages
...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,... | |
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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... 
