 | Lisa Rosner, John Theibault - 2000 - Liczba stron: 478
...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 the stars;... | |
 | Samuel Anthony Barnett - 2000 - Liczba stron: 230
...enquiry can counter the dangers in magic and in unsupported beliefs. CHAPTER 1 FASHIONS IN FAIRY TALES This is the excellent foppery of the world that when we are sick in fortune, . . . we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon and stars; as if we were villains on necessity,... | |
 | Thomas Mallon - 2001 - Liczba stron: 324
...on Sunday night he had found himself in Edmund, ranting with self-satisfaction in die first act of Lear: This is the excellent foppery of the world,...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 were villains on necessity;... | |
 | Robert Brustein - 2003 - Liczba stron: 322
...understood that 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.... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 2001 - Liczba stron: 490
...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.... | |
 | Joseph Twadell Shipley - 2001 - Liczba stron: 688
..."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,... | |
 | Kodŭng Kwahagwŏn (Korea). International Conference, Kenji Fukaya - 2001 - Liczba stron: 940
...come to resemble Edmund's, whose cynicism about human nature also has a strongly sexual coloration ("when we are sick in fortune, often the surfeits of our own behaviour ... drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforc'd obedience of planetary influence ... an admirable... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2001 - Liczba stron: 458
...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 in fortune, we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and stars.' 127. dam'd colour'd stocke] KNIGHT :'... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2002 - Liczba stron: 244
...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...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 were villains on necessity,... | |
 | Wystan Hugh Auden - 2002 - Liczba stron: 428
...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... | |
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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... 
