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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... "
First Public Examination in Literis Graecis Et Latinis - Page 17
by University of Oxford - 1879
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King Lear. Romeo and Juliet. Hamlet. Othello

William Shakespeare - 1836 - 534 pages
...the noble and true-hearted Kent banished ! his offence, honesty ! — Strange ! strange ! [Exit. Edm. This is the excellent foppery of the world, that,...are sick in fortune, (often the surfeit of our own behavior,) we make guilty of our disasters, the sun, the moon, and the stars; as if we were villains...
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The Tragedies of Sophocles: Literally Translated Into English Prose, with Notes

Sophocles - 1837 - 324 pages
...age made itself gods of all the host of heaven. On this there are some forcible ren;iarks in Lear ; " 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 villains...
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The Star-seer: A Poem, in Five Cantos

William Dearden - 1837 - 200 pages
...in regard to Astrology, he is ready to exclaim with Edmund, in Shakspeare's tragedy of King Lear, " This is the excellent foppery of the world ! that, when we are sick in fortune, (often from the surfeit of our own behaviour,) we make guilty of our disasters, the sun, the moon, and the...
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The wisdom and genius of Shakspeare: comprising moral philosophy ...

William Shakespeare - 1838 - 484 pages
...— What wound did ever heal, but by degrees ? 37— ii. 3. 250 Evils, wrongly ascribed to Heaven. This is the excellent foppery of the world ! that,...treachers,* by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers,by an enforced obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare, Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1838 - 522 pages
...the noble and true-hearted Kent banished! his ofiencc, honesty ! — Strange ! strange ! [Exit. Edm. This is the excellent foppery of the world ! that, when we are sick in fortune (often the surfeit ofour behaviour,) we make guilty of our disasters, the sun, the moon, and the stars : as if we were...
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Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Review

Early English newspapers - 1839 - 864 pages
...Had kitten'd, though yourself had ne'et been born." And, again, in King Lear, act 1st, Edmund says, " Moon, and Stars ; as if we were villains on necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion, knaves, thieves,...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: King Lear. Romeo and Juliet ...

William Shakespeare - 1839 - 536 pages
...excellent 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,...heavenly compulsion ; knaves, thieves, and treachers 2 by spherical predominance ; drunkards, liars, and adulterers, by an enforced obedience of planetary...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: King Lear. Romeo and Juliet ...

William Shakespeare - 1839 - 530 pages
...the noble and true-hearted Kent banished ! his offence, honesty ! — Strange ! strange ! [Exit. Edm. This is the excellent foppery of the world, that,...are sick in fortune, (often the surfeit of our own behavior,) we make guilty of our disasters, the sun. the moon, and the stars ; as if we were villains...
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The London encyclopaedia, or, Universal dictionary of science, art ..., Volume 9

Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 1839 - 864 pages
...beating for his pains. A whole tribe of /op». Got 'tween asleep and awake. Shaktpeare. King Lear. 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...
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The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, for the Year ..., Volume 165

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), 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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