 | 1886 - 626 pages
...the same time, denoting Shakespeare's own protest against self-delusion, are Edmund's words : — _ This is the excellent foppery of the world, that,...and the stars : as if we were villains by necessity ; fools, by heavenly compulsion ; knaves, thieves, and treachers, by spherical predominance. The tokens... | |
 | 1886 - 562 pages
...ganddo hawl i osod bai ei dymher ar y ser, na aal un gallu goruchel yn gyfrifol am ei droseddau : — This is the excellent foppery of the world, that when...and the stars: as if we were villains by necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion ; knaves, thieves, by spherical predominance ; drunkards, liais, and adulterers,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1887 - 888 pages
...hollowness, treachery, and all ruinous disorders, follow us disquietly to our graves!] — Find out this villain, Edmund, it shall lose thee nothing ;...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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1887 - 236 pages
...times ; keeps our fortunes from us, till our oldness cannot relish them. Act 1, sc. 2, 1. 46. EDMUND. This is the excellent foppery of the world, that,...and the stars, as if we were villains by necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treachers, by spherical predominance ; drunkards,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1897 - 340 pages
...nothing : do it carefully. And the noble and true-hearted Kent banished ! his offence, honesty ! 'Tis strange. Exit. Edm. This is the excellent foppery...sun, the moon, and the stars ; as if we were villains on necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion, knaves thieves and treachers by spherical predominance,... | |
 | Edwin Booth - 1899 - 604 pages
...cracked between son [crosses R.] and father. Find out this villain, Edmund; it shall lose thee nothing. Edm. This is the excellent foppery of the world, that,...and the stars; as if we were villains by necessity; fools, by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treachers, by spherical predominance. An admirable... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1899 - 1144 pages
...[crosses R.] and father. Find out this villain, Edmund ; it shall lose thee nothing. [Exit Gloster RIE Edm. This is the excellent foppery of the world, that,...and the stars; as if we were villains by necessity; fools, by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treachers, by spherical predominance. An admirable... | |
 | 1901 - 544 pages
...that of parallelism of expression. Edmund's words might seem a direct answer to Ulysses. He says : "This is the excellent foppery of the world , that...and the stars, as if we were villains by necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion." Marston has added a rhyme-tag to Ulysses' speech: "To end a tale of... | |
 | William John Courthope - 1903 - 642 pages
...Roderigo, about his fathers superstitious belief in the influence of the planets over human actions : — This is the excellent foppery of the world, that,...and the stars : as if we were villains by necessity ; fools by heavenly compulsion ; knaves, thieves and treachers, by spherical predominance ; drunkards,... | |
 | 1903 - 778 pages
...art not thyself; For thou exist'st on many a thousand grains That issue out of dust. ••.. , . " This is the excellent foppery of the world, that when...and the stars ; as if we were villains by necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion ; knaves, thieves and treachers, by spherical predominance ; drunkards,... | |
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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 ; as if we were villains by necessity ; fools, "by heavenly compulsion... 
