 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
 | William Burgess - Bible - 1903 - 322 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 treachers1 by spherical predominance ; drunkards, liars, and adulterers, by an enforced obedience of... | |
 | Albert Stratford George Canning - 1903 - 514 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 Francis Barry - Literature, Modern - 1904 - 408 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... | |
 | Patrick Maxwell - Literature - 1906 - 304 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, and adulterers by an enforced obedience of... | |
 | WILLIAM J. ROLFE - 1908 - 328 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... | |
 | Henry Thew Stephenson - England - 1910 - 568 pages
...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; knaves, thieves,...predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers, by an enforced obedience of planetary influence ; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on... | |
 | English drama - 1910 - 490 pages
...the surfeits" 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 enforc'd obedience of planetary... | |
 | English drama - 1910 - 566 pages
...the surfeits" 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 enforc'd obedience of planetary... | |
 | John Mackinnon Robertson - 1913 - 650 pages
...your new fortunes with this more stubborn and boisterous expedition. Othello, Act I, Scene 3. Edmund. This is the excellent foppery of the world ! that,...fools by heavenly compulsion ; knaves, thieves, and treachers, by spherical predominance ; drunkards, liars, and adulterers, by an enforced obedience of... | |
 | William Alanson White - Psychoanalysis - 1916 - 368 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 ; knaves, thieves, and treachers by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers, by an enforced obedience of... | |
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