| Bill Manville, William Henry Manville - 2003 - 300 pages
...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,...villains by necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion ... an admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition to the charge of a star.... | |
| Mary Anneeta Mann - 2004 - 230 pages
...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,... | |
| Irving Ribner - 2005 - 232 pages
...phenomena of nature which was so integral a part of the Elizabethan doctrine of order and degree : 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... | |
| Sue Young - 2005 - 165 pages
...state. lts presence proves our feet upon the path. Permission to proceed with wisdom is all we need now. "This is the excellent foppery of the world, that...necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion, knaves, thieves, drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforced obedience of planetary influence ..." COMMON SENSE... | |
| Harris - 2005 - 182 pages
...relationships he holds so dear. But it is, says Edmund, "an admirable evasion of whoremaster man," to "make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and...villains by necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion" (I, ii). In any case, by the time of the storm scene, both Lear and Gloucester have lost their faith... | |
| Noga Arikha - 2007 - 412 pages
...reassuring determinism or the strengthening of prejudice — against bastards, in his case. Edmund says it is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when...fools by heavenly compulsion, knaves, thieves, and treachers by spherical predominance, drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforced obedience of planetary... | |
| William Shakespeare - 2007 - 260 pages
...excellent foppery of the world, that when we are sick in fortune, often the surfeits96 of our own behavior, we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon,...stars, as if we were villains by necessity, fools by 1 1 5 heavenly compulsion, knaves, thieves, and treachers97 by spherical predominance,98 drunkards,... | |
| William Shakespeare - 2008 - 380 pages
...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...villains by necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion, . . . and all that we are evil in by a divine thrusting on: (128-136) Gloster: As flies to wanton boys,... | |
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