 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 532 pagine
...the noble and true-hearted Kent banished ! his offence, honesty I—Strange ! strange ! [Exit. Edm. This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, 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... | |
 | John Sallis - 2000 - 262 pagine
...Gloucester's exit, there commences a soliloquy in which Edmund denounces all such appeals to the elements: 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;... | |
 | Lisa Rosner, John Theibault - 2000 - 478 pagine
...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, when we are sick in fortune — often the surfeit of our own behaviour — we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and... | |
 | Lawrence Danson - 2000 - 172 pagine
...controlled by astrological predetermination is pooh-poohed in a later tragedy by the bastard, Edmond: '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,... | |
 | Burton F. Porter - 2001 - 336 pagine
...some die of neglect. The following passage from Shakespeare's King Lear might be a fitting epitaph: 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... | |
 | Diane Bjorklund - 1998 - 286 pagine
...autobiographers might use the idea of chance in the manner that Shakespeare described in King Lear: "This is the excellent foppery of the world, that when we are sick in fortune — often the surfeit of our own behavior — we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon and... | |
 | Jean-Marie Pradier - 2000 - 356 pagine
...dans leurs traités. « C'est Vénus, dit le Liber Hermetis, qui lâche la bride à leurs vices; - « This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune, - often the surfeit of our own behaviours, - we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2001 - 458 pagine
...was born. DEIGHTON calls attention to the contempt with which Edmund (Lear, I, ii, 112) treats this ' excellent foppery of the world, that when we are sick...make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and stars.' 127. dam'd colour'd stocke] KNIGHT :' Stock ' is stocking. We have ventured to read ' damask-coloured.... | |
 | Robert Brustein - 2003 - 322 pagine
...the true explanations are beyond concepts of blame. As Shakespeare's Edmund puts it, in King Lear, "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... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 2001 - 490 pagine
...moral quality of an action by fixing the mind on the mere physical act alone. Ib. Edmund's speech : — This is the excellent foppery of the world ! that, 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... | |
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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... 
