 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...  Sophocles - Page 10by Clifton Wilbraham Collins - 1871 - 181 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Samuel Butler - Knights and knighthood - 1744 - 498 pages
...vol. 5. p. 1 18, 1 19. Edmund, " This ' is the excellent Foppery of the World, that when we are fick ' in Fortune, (often the Surfeit of our own Behaviour) we make ' guilty of our Difafters the Sun, Moon, and Stars j as if we ' were Villains on Neceffity, Fools by heavenly Compulfion,... | |
 | 1802 - 436 pages
...EDMUND. This is theexcelient 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 villians on necessity ; fools, by heavenly compulsion ; knaves, thieves, and... | |
 | 1853 - 678 pages
...forsake that 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 the stars.' Our experience of the past may guide us in our policy towards China in that future which we have yet... | |
 | William Henry Ireland - Satire, English - 1807 - 330 pages
...is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are in sick fortune (often the surfeits of our behaviour) 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 treacherous, by spherical predominance:... | |
 | William Henry Ireland - Fools and jesters - 1807 - 356 pages
...is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are in sick fortune (often the surfeits of our behaviour) 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 treacherous, by spherical predominance... | |
 | Robert Deverell - Hieroglyphics - 1813 - 350 pages
...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 treacherous,... | |
 | Robert Deverell - 1813 - 666 pages
...Edm. 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 starts, as if we were villains on necessity ; fools, by heavenly compulsion ; knaves, thieves, and... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1817 - 392 pages
...gone—" 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 treacherous... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1818 - 342 pages
..." 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 treacherous... | |
 | Samuel Butler - English poetry - 1819 - 584 pages
...mother's cat Had kitten'd, though yourself had ne'er been born." And in Lear, Edmund says, "This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we...behaviour,) we make guilty of our disasters the sun, moon, and stars ; as if we were villains on necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion, knaves, thieves,... | |
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