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 stars : as if we were villains on necessity ; fools by heavenly compulsion... Hudibras: A Poem - Page 115by Samuel Butler - 1822 - 494 pagesFull view - About this book
| English philology - 1918 - 660 pages
...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." There is no reason for thrusting this foppery upon Chaucer himself. Furthermore it is quite characteristic... | |
| George Thorn-Drury - 1920 - 64 pages
...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,...Thieves and treacherous by spherical predominance and Planetary influence : Ibid. C 3. There are persons which hate the day, wishing the Hours thereof... | |
| Raymond Macdonald Alden - Dramatists, English - 1922 - 410 pages
...often the surfeits of oar 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, drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforc'd obedience of planetary... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1927 - 970 pages
...fortune, — often the surfeit of our own behaviour, — we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the 1D [ T,! 6 E Κj c ale <︷x 6 j 1}i Na eΘz a /n z| > x U1@D n `wa e treachers, by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers, by an enforced obedience of... | |
| American essays - 1924 - 880 pages
...quoted my favorite passage from King Lear: 'We make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars, as if we were villains on necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion, drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforced obedience of planetary influence, and all that we are... | |
| William R. Elton - Drama - 1980 - 388 pages
...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 by spherical predominance, drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforc'd obedience of planetary... | |
| H. S. Bennett - Business & Economics - 1989 - 276 pages
...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 by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforced obedience of planetary... | |
| Jay Clayton, Eric Rothstein - American literature - 1991 - 364 pages
...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, moon, and...fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treachers by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforced obedience of planetary... | |
| Merriam-Webster, Inc - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1991 - 552 pages
...direct, make straight + E -ible] disaster "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; drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforc'd obedience of planetary... | |
| William Shakespeare - Drama - 1992 - 340 pages
...fortune, often the surfeits of our own behaviour, we 105 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 by spherical predominance, drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforced obedience of planetary... | |
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