 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 Fortnightly Review - Page 1131913Full view - About this book
 | William John Birch - Religion in literature - 1848 - 570 pages
...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...fools by heavenly compulsion ; knaves, thieves, and treacherers, by spherial predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers, by an enforced obedience of... | |
 | William John Birch - Religion in literature - 1848 - 574 pages
...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 t compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treacherers, by spherial predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers,... | |
 | Sophocles - 1849 - 376 pages
...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...adulterers, by an enforced obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on." Act I. sc. 2. PH. Thou abhorrence, what lies... | |
 | Commonplace-books - 1849 - 240 pages
...fullness, become mooneyed or moon - calves. We are to ascribe our disasters to the sun and stars forsooth ! as if we were villains by necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, or traitors by spherical predominance ; become drunkards, liars and adulterers, by an irresistible... | |
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - 1850 - 408 pages
...most unphilosophical who pass. The law itself assents when we make nature guilty of our disasters. " As if we were villains by necessity ; fools by heavenly compulsion ; knaves, thieves, and traitors by spherical predominance ; drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforced obedience of planetary... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1850 - 260 pages
...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.—EDM. I., 2. Thou art an O without a figure.—FOOL, I., 4. The hedge-sparrow fed the cuckoo... | |
 | Sir John Robert Seeley, William Young (of the City of London School), Ernest Abraham Hart - 1851 - 170 pages
...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...adulterers, by an enforced obedience of planetary influence ; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on."—Act I. Scene 2. The christian view of men,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 712 pages
...when we 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...adulterers, by an enforced obedience of planetary influence ; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on. An admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 462 pages
...(often the surfeit of our own behaviour) we make guiIty of our disasters, the sun, the moon, and tin: stars : as if we were villains by necessity ; fools,...adulterers, by an enforced obedience of planetary influence ; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on : An admirable evasion of man, to lay his goatish... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 586 pages
...behaviour), we make guilty of our disasters, the sun, the moon, and the stars : as if we were villians by necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion ; knaves,...adulterers, by an enforced obedience of planetary influence ; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on : An admirable evasion of whoremaster man,... | |
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