 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
 | Theron Soliman Eugene Dixon - 1895 - 472 pages
...sick in fortune, (often the surfeit of our own behavior,) we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and stars : as if we were villains on necessity...fools by heavenly compulsion ; knaves, thieves, and treachers by spherical predominance ; drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforced obedience of... | |
 | Conduct of life - 1895 - 344 pages
...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. 7. Loath to suffer mute, We, peopling the void air, Make gods to whom to impute The ills we ought to... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1897 - 248 pages
...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 ; knaves, thieves, and treachers, by spherical predominance ; drunkards, liars, ... by an enforced obedience of planetary... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1897 - 340 pages
...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 on necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion, knaves thieves and treachers by spherical predominance, drunkards liars and adulterers by an enforced obedience of planetary... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1898 - 460 pages
...Cf. Edmund's speech in Lear, I, ii, 114: 'we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars; as if we were villains on necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion, knaves, thieves, and treachers, by spherical predominance, drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforced obedience to... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1898 - 456 pages
...Edmund's speech in Lear, I, ii, 114 : ' we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars ; as if we were villains on necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion, knaves, thieves, and treachers, by spherical predominance, drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforced obedience to... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1898 - 462 pages
...Cf. Edmund's speech in Lear, I, ii, 114: 'we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars; as if we were villains on necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion, knaves, thieves, and treachers, by spherical predominance, drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforced obedience to... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English essays - 1902 - 570 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.... | |
 | 1902 - 400 pages
...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 on necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion, knaves, thieves and treachers by spherical predominance, drunkards, liars and adulterers by an enforced obedience of planetary... | |
 | 1902 - 618 pages
...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 on necessity, 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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