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 Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare - Page 17by William Shakespeare, William Harness - 1830Full view - About this book
| Fritz Heider - Psychology - 1982 - 340 pages
...knaves, thieves, and treachers by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforc'd obedience of planetary influence; and all that we...lay his goatish disposition to the charge of a star! (Act I, Scene 2.) Not only are personal actions a fertile field for egocentric attribution; the actions... | |
| William Shakespeare - Drama - 1990 - 324 pages
...fortune, often the surfeit of our own behaviour, we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the H5 moon, and stars; as if we were villains by necessity, fools...in, by a divine thrusting on. An admirable evasion 120 of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition to the charge of a star! My father compounded... | |
| H. S. Bennett - Business & Economics - 1989 - 276 pages
...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...all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on.' These little pamphlets of some twenty-four pages contained much factual information of a useful nature.... | |
| Jay Clayton, Eric Rothstein - American literature - 1991 - 364 pages
...our own behavior, we make guilty of our disasters the sun, moon, and stars; as if we were villains on necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves,...and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting in. An admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition on the charge of a star.... | |
| William Shakespeare - Drama - 1992 - 340 pages
...behaviour, we 105 make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and stars; as if we were villains on necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion, knaves, thieves,...influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine 11o thrusting on. An admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition on the charge... | |
| Marvin Rosenberg - Drama - 1992 - 456 pages
...knaves, thieves, and treachers by spherical predominance, drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforc'd obedience of planetary influence; and all that we...lay his goatish disposition to the charge of a star! (126'34) Now the ubiquitous animal note is sounded: My father compounded with my mother under the dragon's... | |
| William Shakespeare - Drama - 1994 - 160 pages
...compulsion, knaves, thieves, and treacherers by spiritual predominance, drunkards, liars, and adulterers 100 by an enforced obedience of planetary influence; and...man to lay his goatish disposition to the charge of stars. My father 68 sir] <). sirrah F 68 ay,] 1 Q; I, Q2; He F; Ay, Cam. '6« lord. If] L. If FV Lord,... | |
| Sir Robert Wilson - Science - 2003 - 320 pages
...are sick in fortune often the surfeit of our own behaviour - we make guilty of our disasters the Sun, Moon and the stars, as if we were villains by necessity,...all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on. King Lear CHAPTER THREE The Greeks From harmony from heavenly harmony This universal frame began: .... | |
| Paul Corrigan - Business & Economics - 2000 - 260 pages
...guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars: as if we were villains by necessity,fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treachers,...all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on: King Lear, Act 1 Scene 2 lines 118-26 Edmund is sarcastic about his father's railing against change,... | |
| Lisa Rosner, John Theibault - History - 2000 - 478 pages
...liquids, and listening to soothing music. But we can turn to Shakespeare again for the alternative view: "This is the excellent foppery of the world, that,...and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on."6 Nature and Human Nature But what was human nature itself? Men and women of the seventeenth century... | |
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