 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
 | 1802 - 436 pages
...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,...predominance: drunkards, liars, and adulterers, by an inforc'd obedience of planetary influence} and all that we art evil in, by a divine thrusting on.... | |
 | William Henry Ireland - Satire, English - 1807 - 330 pages
...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...predominance: drunkards, liars, and adulterers, by an inforced obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on.... | |
 | William Henry Ireland - Fools and jesters - 1807 - 356 pages
...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...predominance : drunkards, liars, and adulterers, by an inforced obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on.... | |
 | Robert Deverell - Hieroglyphics - 1813 - 350 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...predominance ; drunkards, liars, and adulterers, by an enforc'd obedience of planetary influence ; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on.... | |
 | Robert Deverell - 1813 - 666 pages
...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...predominance ; drunkards, liars, and adulterers, by an enforc'd obedience of planetary influence ; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on.... | |
 | 1814 - 378 pages
...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...compulsion ; knaves, thieves, and treacherous, by tplicric.il predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers, by an inforc'd obedience of planetary influence;... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1817 - 392 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;...predominance ; drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforced obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on.... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1818 - 342 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...heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treacherous by sitherical predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforced obedience of planetary iutlueuce;... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1839 - 864 pages
...mother's car Had kitten'd, though yourself had ne'et been born." And, again, in King Lear, act 1st, v inforc'd obedience of planetary influence ; and all that we are evil by a divine thrusting ou." Ward,... | |
 | English essays - 1839 - 722 pages
...King Lear, act 1st, Edmund says, " This ia the excellent foppery of the world, that when we are lick in fortune (often the surfeit of our own behaviour),...predominance ; drunkards, liars, and adulterers by inforc'd obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil by a divine thrusting on." Ward,... | |
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