 | William Shakespeare - 1865 - 362 sivua
...wast born, To signify,—thou cam'st to bite the world. ASTROLOGY. ' FROM THE PLAY OF KING LEAS.' " 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,... | |
 | LUDWIC HERRIC - 1865 - 496 sivua
...meanest brasse. Book IV. Canto IX. but see Archiv fn Sprachen. XXVIII. Band p. 293 — 294. E dmund. This is the excellent foppery of the world : that,...the moon, and the stars: as if we were villains by nece«sitv ; fools, hy heavenly compulsion ; knave?, thieves, ami treachers, by spherical predominance;... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1866 - 788 sivua
...do it carefully. — And the noble and true-hearted Kent banished ! his offence, honesty ! — 'Tis strange. [Exit. Edm. This is the excellent foppery...and the stars : as if we were villains by necessity ; fools by heavenly compulsion ; knaves, thieves, and treachers, by spherical predominance ; drunkards,... | |
 | William Lowes Rushton - 1868 - 82 sivua
...suggested by these stanzas in the ' Faerie Queene,' which contain the same idea similarly expressed. 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 ; drunkards,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1868 - 554 sivua
...And the noble and true-hearted Kent banished! his offence, honesty! — 'Tis strange. [Exit. Eilm. 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 - 1872 - 416 sivua
...nothing; do it carefully. — And the noble and true-hearted Kent banished! his offence, honesty! — 'Tis strange. [Exit. Edm. This is the excellent foppery...and the stars : as if we were villains by necessity ; fools by heavenly compulsion ; knaves, thievea, and treachers by spherical predominance; drunkards,... | |
 | 1873 - 336 sivua
...the poet's own opinion, the latter may perhaps be inferred from such passages as the following : " 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 - 1874 - 646 sivua
...hollowness, treachery, and all ruinous disorders, follow us disquietly to our graves. — Find out ven, or hell ; And this fell tempest shall not cease... &"> 1874 Bickers"- Shakespeare William" William Shakespeare( fools, by heavenly compulsion ; knaves, thieves, and treachers, by spherical predominance ; drunkards,... | |
 | Oxford univ, exam. papers, 2nd publ. exam - 182 sivua
...affront, mazzard, gaberdine, corollary, yare. 8. Explain with reference to the context the following (i) 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,... | |
 | Edward Dowden - 1875 - 448 sivua
...to superstition ; and Gloucester's superstition affords some countenance to Edmund's scepticism. " 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... 
