 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
 | John Sallis - Philosophy - 2000 - 258 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,...predominance, drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforc'd obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on. An... | |
 | Diane Bjorklund - Family & Relationships - 2000 - 286 pages
...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 by necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion." The Role of Society and Significant Others Autobiographers who thought about human motivation considered... | |
 | Burton F. Porter - Philosophy - 2001 - 336 pages
...when we are sick in fortune, often 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;... | |
 | Joseph Twadell Shipley - Foreign Language Study - 2001 - 688 pages
...when we are sick in fortune-often the surfeit of our own behaviour-we make guilty of our own disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars; as if we were villains...adulterers by an enforced obedience of planetary influence . . . -an admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition to the charge of a star!... | |
 | Kodŭng Kwahagwŏn (Korea). International Conference, Kenji Fukaya - Mirror symmetry - 2001 - 940 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,...predominance, drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforc'd obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on. An... | |
 | Sir William Osler - Medical ethics - 2001 - 416 pages
...abnormalities, particularly of the brain, and urges a belief in a criminal psychosis, in which men are "villains by necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion, knaves, thieves, and treachers by spherical predominance."78 This remarkable revolution in our knowledge of brain functions has resulted directly... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2001 - 448 pages
...Where 'tis predominant] Cf. Edmund's speech in Lear, I, ii, 1 14 : '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,... | |
 | Thomas Mallon - Scientists - 2001 - 324 pages
...were villains on necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treachers by heavenly predominance; drunkards, liars, and 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 - Quotations, English - 2002 - 244 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Marijane Osborn - Poetry - 2002 - 380 pages
...ironic about her views as Edmund is ironic in Xing Lear about how "we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars, as if we were villains by necessity." Neither Shakespeare's Edmund nor Chaucer accepts as an excuse "an enforc'd obedience of planetary influence"... | |
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