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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 : as if we were villains by necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion... "
The Plays of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of ... - Page 161
by William Shakespeare - 1809
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Leaving the Cave: Evolutionary Naturalism in Social-scientific Thought

Pat Duffy Hutcheon - Social Science - 1996 - 521 pages
...Montaigne, Hobbes and Hume Michel de Montaigne (1533-92) This is an excellent foppery of the world that, when we are sick in fortune — often the surfeit...villains by necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion . . . and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on. — William Shakespeare, King Lear Erasmus...
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Astronomy Through the Ages: The Story Of The Human Attempt To Understand The ...

Sir Robert Wilson - Science - 2003 - 320 pages
...will be made to it, and the author defers to Shakespeare: This excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune often the surfeit of our...behaviour - we make guilty of our disasters the Sun, Moon and the stars, as if we were villains by necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion, knaves, thieves,...
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Essays in honor of Hans Joachim Schneider

Hans-Dieter Schwind, Edwin Kube, Hans-Heiner Kühne - Law - 1998 - 1106 pages
...excesses. One is the fatalistic excess, so well described by Shakespeare in King Lear (I, ii, 129): "We make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon,...villains by necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion." This fatalistic attitude brings no relief and leads to further disasters as those of the same kind...
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The Wordsworth Dictionary of Quotations

Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...stand Aloof from the entire point. 10313 King Lear This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, Hamlet But to my mind own disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars. 10314 King Lear Have more than thou showest. Speak...
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Shakespeare on Management: Leadership Lessons for Today's Managers

Paul Corrigan - Business & Economics - 2000 - 260 pages
...reasons to explain them: This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick infortune - often the surfeit of our own behaviour - we make guilty...the moon, and the stars: as if we were villains by necessity,fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treachers, by spherical predominance;...
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A Short History of Europe, 1600-1815: Search for a Reasonable World

Lisa Rosner, John Theibault - History - 2000 - 478 pages
...turn to Shakespeare again for the alternative view: "This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune — often the surfeit...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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The Oxford Shakespeare: The History of King Lear

William Shakespeare - Drama - 2001 - 334 pages
...offence honesty! Strange, strange! Exit EDMUND This is the excellent foppery of the world: that 11o when we are sick in fortune — often the surfeit...fools by heavenly compulsion, knaves, thieves, and treacherers by spherical predominance, drunkards, 115 liars, and adulterers by an enforced obedience...
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King Lear: The 1608 Quarto and 1623 Folio Texts

William Shakespeare - Drama - 2000 - 324 pages
...of the world, that 112 when we are sick in fortune — often the surfeit of our 113 own behavior - we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon,...fools by heavenly compulsion, knaves, thieves, and treacherers by spherical predominance, drunkards, 117 liars, and adulterers by an enforced obedience...
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La scène et la fabrique des corps: ethnoscénologie du spectacle vivant en ...

Jean-Marie Pradier - Performing arts - 2000 - 356 pages
...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,...fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treachers, by spherical predominance ; drunkards, liars and adulterers, by an enforced obedience of...
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Interpreting the Self: Two Hundred Years of American Autobiography

Diane Bjorklund - Family & Relationships - 2000 - 286 pages
...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...villains by necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion." The Role of Society and Significant Others Autobiographers who thought about human motivation considered...
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