 | Robert Brustein - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 322 pages
...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. . . . 'Sfoot! I should have been that I am had the maidenliest star in the firmament twinkled on my... | |
 | Joseph Twadell Shipley - Foreign Language Study - 2001 - 688 pages
...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, and the stars; as if we were villains by necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion, knaves, thieves and treachers by spherical predominance;... | |
 | Wystan Hugh Auden - Drama - 2002 - 428 pages
...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 adulterers by an enforc'd obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on. An admirable evasion of whoremaster... | |
 | Millicent Bell - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 316 pages
...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...predominance; drunkards, liars and adulterers by an enforced obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in by a divine thrusting on." His... | |
 | Iván Nyusztay - Drama - 2002 - 210 pages
...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...and adulterers by an enforc'd obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on. (I.ii.l 15-23) The bastard Edmund... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Quotations, English - 2002 - 244 pages
...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, fools...predominance; drunkards, liars and adulterers, by an enforced obedience of planetary influence, and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on: an... | |
 | Marijane Osborn - Poetry - 2002 - 380 pages
...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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2002 - 228 pages
...any society? A4 Edmund scoffs at astrology: 'we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and stars; as if we were villains on necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion . . . and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on' (/, 2, 114-120). But Kent seems to disagree:... | |
 | J. Philip Newell - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 148 pages
...- 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...predominance, drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforced obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in by a divine thrustingon. An... | |
 | Gil Richard Musolf - Psychology - 2003 - 372 pages
...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; fools...predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforced obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on. An... | |
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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... 
