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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... "
Development of English Literature and Language - Page 390
by Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882
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Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors, Volume 2

John Timbs - 1829 - 354 pages
...train, blood, and birth, Are but the fading blossoms of the earth. Sir H. Wottan. DCCUCXI. Astrology 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...
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Laconics; or, The best words of the best authors [ed. by J. Timbs ..., Volume 2

Laconics - 1829 - 358 pages
...of the earth. Fame, honour, beauty, state, train, blood, and birthi SirH. Wotton. DCCLXXI. Astrology 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...
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A London Encyclopaedia, Or Universal Dictionary of Science, Art ..., Volume 9

Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 822 pages
...beating for his pains. A whole tribe of fops, Got 'tween asleep and awake. Shakspeare. King tear. Thi» is the excellent foppery of the world, that when we are sick in fortune, often the surfeits of our own behaviour, we make guilty of our disasters, the »un, the moon, and »tars, as...
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A London Encyclopaedia, Or Universal Dictionary of Science, Art ..., Volume 18

Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 804 pages
...should be ordered by those deliberations, wherein such an humour as this were predominant. Hooker. We make guilty of our disasters, the sun, the moon, and the stars, as we if were knaves, thieves, and treacherous by spherical predominance. Shakipeare. Foul subordination...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare, Volume 8

William Shakespeare, William Harness - 1830 - 638 pages
...the noble and true-hearted Kent banished ! his offence, honesty ! — Strange ! strange ! [Exit. Edm. This is the excellent foppery of the world ! that,...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...
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The Dramatic Works, Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1831 - 522 pages
...the noble And true-hearted Kent banished! his ofience, honestv! — Strange! strange! [Exit. Ëdin. This is the excellent foppery of the world ! that, when we are sick in fortune (often the »urfeii of our behaviour,) we make guilty of our disasters, the sun, the moon, and the stars : as...
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The Dramatic Works, Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1831 - 528 pages
...and true-hearted Kent banished! his offence, horieetv!— Strange! strange! [Exit. Êdm. This is'the excellent foppery of the world ! that, when we are sick in fortune (often the surfeit of our behaviour,) we make guilty of our disasters, the sun, the moon, and the stars : as if we were villains...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: With Glossarial Notes, a Sketch of ...

William Shakespeare - 1832 - 1022 pages
...foppery of the world I that, when we are sick in fortune, (often the surfeit of our own behaviour,) things Till then, my noble friend, chew upon this...repute himself a son of Rome Under such hard cond thieve», and treachers, *• by spherical predominance ; drunkards, liars, and adulterers, by an enforced...
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Thaumaturgia, Or, Elucidations of the Marvellous

Oxonian - 1835 - 380 pages
...it would, as Shakspeare says, " if my mother's cat had kittened. This," says our sagacious bard, " is the excellent foppery of the world, that when we are sick in fortune, (after the surfeit of our own behaviour) we make guilt of our disasters, the sun, the moon, and the...
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Thaumaturgia, Or, Elucidations of the Marvellous

Oxonian - 1835 - 386 pages
...the world, that when we are sick in fortune, (after the surfeit of our own behaviour) we make guilt of our disasters, the sun, the moon, and the stars ; as if we were viHains by necessity ; fools, by heavenly compulsion ; knaves, thieves, and treachers, (traitors) by...
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