| 1814 - 378 pages
...there not a great similarity between this speech of Jupiter's, and Edmund's in king Lear ? EDMUND. This is the 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, the moon, and stars ; as if... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1817 - 392 pages
...from the late eclipses in the sun and moon. Edmund, who is in the secret, says when he is 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... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1818 - 342 pages
...from the late eclipses in the sun and moon. Edmund, who is in the secret, says when he is 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... | |
| Samuel Butler - 1819 - 402 pages
...peep into The world, but he has done his do, Aiul in King Lear, act I. vol. 5. p. 118, 119. Edmund. "This is the excellent foppery of the world, that...and treachers by spherical predominance : drunkards, lyars, and adulterers by an inforced obedience of plauctary influence ; and all that we are evil in,... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1819 - 646 pages
...And the noble and true-hearted Kent banished ! his offence, honesty! — Strange! strange ! ££ Edm. This is the excellent foppery of the world ! that,...; fools, by heavenly compulsion ; knaves, thieves, nnd trenchers, by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers, by an enforced obedience... | |
| Samuel Butler - English poetry - 1819 - 584 pages
...if your 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,...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,... | |
| mrs. Kelly - 1821 - 572 pages
...RECORDS OF 1814 AND 1815. a Nobel. IN FIVE VOLUMES. BT MRS. KELLY, AUTHOR OF THE MATRON OF ERIN, 40. This is the excellent foppery of the world. that when...disasters, the sun, the moon, and the stars ; as if we were Tillains by necessity— fools by heavenly compulsion— knaves, thieves, and treachers, by spherical... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1821 - 512 pages
...his ridicule, in the words referred to in the beginning of the note. WAREURTON. * Book IV. v. 383. disasters, the sun, the moon, and the stars : as if...heavenly compulsion ; knaves, thieves, and treachers 4, by spherical predominance ; drunkards, liars, and adulterers, by an enforced obedience of planetary... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1821 - 588 pages
...the noble and true-hearted Kent banished! his offence, honesty !— Strange ! strange ! [Exit. Edm. This is the 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, the moon, and the stars : as if we were villaius... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1821 - 510 pages
...whom we owe this, as well as most other unnatural crimes and follies of these latter ages, fomented that, when we are sick in fortune, (often the surfeit of our own behaviour,) we make guilty of our its original impiety to the most detestable height of extravagance. Petrus Aponensis, an Italian physician... | |
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