 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...  The Plays of Shakespeare: A Thematic Guideefter Victor L. Cahn - 2001 - 361 sidorIngen förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | Kodŭng Kwahagwŏn (Korea). International Conference, Kenji Fukaya - 2001 - 940 sidor
...the stars above us, govern our conditions" (4.3.32-3). Edmund, on the other hand, scorns such views: This is the excellent foppery of the world, that,...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 we were villains on... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 2001 - 490 sidor
...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 stars, &c.... | |
 | Robert Brustein - 2003 - 322 sidor
...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 the stars.... | |
 | Joseph Twadell Shipley - 2001 - 688 sidor
..."These late eclipses in the sun and moon portend no good to us," his villainous bastard Edmund replies: "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 own disasters the sun, the moon,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2002 - 244 sidor
...own petar. Hamlet — Hamlet III.iv Knavery's plain face is never seen till us'd. Iago— Othello Hi This is the excellent foppery of the world, that when...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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2002 - 228 sidor
...is the value of customs, conventions, and traditions in any society? A4 Edmund scoffs at astrology: 'we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon,...villains on necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion . . . and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on' (/, 2, 114-120). But Kent seems to disagree:... | |
 | Millicent Bell - 2002 - 316 sidor
...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...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... | |
 | Wystan Hugh Auden - 2002 - 428 sidor
...We have seen the best of our time. (I.ii.l 12-23) But Edmund rejects laying sins off on the stars: 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... | |
 | Gil Richard Musolf - 2003 - 372 sidor
...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...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... | |
 | J. Philip Newell - 2003 - 148 sidor
...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...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 we were villains on... | |
| |
