 | Oxonian - 1835 - 386 páginas
...the world, that when we are sick in fortune, (after the surfeit of our own behaviour) we make guilt of our disasters, the sun, the moon, and the stars ; as if we were viHains by necessity ; fools, by heavenly compulsion ; knaves, thieves, and treachers, (traitors) by... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1836 - 534 páginas
...And the noble and true-hearted Kent banished ! his offence, honesty ! — Strange ! strange ! [Exit. Edm. This is the excellent foppery of the world, that,...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... | |
 | Sophocles - 1837 - 324 páginas
...age made itself gods of all the host of heaven. On this there are some forcible ren;iarks in Lear ; " This is the excellent foppery of the world ! 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... | |
 | Millicent Bell - 2002 - 316 páginas
...were an ominous portent. A modern voice — and not a negligible one — is Edmund's when he says, "This is the excellent foppery of the world, that 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... | |
 | Robert Sawyer - 2003 - 182 páginas
...(254). This attitude sounds similar to the type of predisposition Edmund so carefully describes in Lear: This is the excellent foppery of the world, that,...are sick in fortune, often the surfeit of our own behavior, we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars;... An admirable evasion... | |
 | J. Philip Newell - 2003 - 148 páginas
...influences on our lives. Self-determination and the power of the will, he contends, is all that matters: This is the excellent foppery of the world, that when we are sick in fortune - often the surfeits of our own behaviour - we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and stars, as if... | |
 | Gil Richard Musolf - 2003 - 372 páginas
...from King Lear. Determinism in the stars? Even Edmund knew that that was rationalization and evasion. This is the excellent foppery of the world, that when we are sick in fortune, often the surfeits of our own behavior, we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and stars; as if we... | |
 | Margaret Sönser Breen - 2003 - 242 páginas
...world. that. when we are sick in fortune.—often the surfeit of our own hehav iour.~we make guihy of our disasters the sun. the moon. and the stars: as if we were villains hy necessity; fools hy heavenly compulsion: knaves. thieves. and treachers. hy spherical predominance;... | |
 | Bill Manville, William Henry Manville - 2003 - 300 páginas
...seem to be married to her. Your question raises an important issue for addicts. Blaming others. . . . 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... | |
 | Mary Anneeta Mann - 2004 - 230 páginas
...from the mean. This in part is what Gloucester is trying to do and his son Edmund jeers at him for it: This is the excellent foppery of the world, that when...surfeit of our own behaviour we make guilty of our disaster the sun, the moon, and the stars, as if we were villains by necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion,... | |
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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... 
