 | Samuel Cox, Sir William Robertson Nicoll, James Moffatt - 1876 - 496 pàgines
...dogmas and mysteries current in his day, saw and rebuked their immorality. In " King Lear" he writes : " 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,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1877 - 232 pàgines
...carefully. And the noble and true-hearted Kent banished ! his offence, honesty ! 'Tis strange. [Exit. 109 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,... | |
 | John Frederick Blake - 1877 - 470 pàgines
...from Shakespeare and Voltaire. Our immortal poet puts into the mouth of Edmund in King Lear : — " 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 treacherous, by spherical predominance ; drunkards,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1878 - 590 pàgines
...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, thieves, and treachers, 1 by spherical predominance ; drunkards,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1879 - 546 pàgines
...nothing ; do it carefully. And the noble and true-hearted Kent banished ! his offence, honesty ! 'T is ou ; fools by heavenly compulsion ; knaves, thieves, and treachers, by spherical predominance ; drunkards,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1879 - 240 pàgines
...nothing ; do it carefully. — And the noble and true-hearted Kent banish'd ! 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,1' by spherical predominance ; drunkards,... | |
 | University of Oxford - 1879 - 414 pàgines
...detract from purity of style ? 8. Explain with reference to the context the following passaged : — (1) 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,... | |
 | Charles Cowden Clarke, Mary Cowden Clarke - 1879 - 884 pàgines
...famous ape, To try conclusions, in the basket creep, And break your own neck down. — Hamlet, iii. 4. This is the excellent foppery of the world, that,...and the stars : as if we were villains by necessity. — Lear, i. 2. I ll not be struck, my lord. — Nor tripped neither, you base football-player. —... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1881 - 330 pàgines
...nothing ; do it carefully. And the noble and true-hearted Kent banish'd ! 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,16 by spherical predominance ; drunkards,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1880 - 668 pàgines
...the hatch : Who dares not stir by day, must walk by night. KJ, 1 : 1. 048. — Villainy Charged to. 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,... | |
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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... 
