... we make guilty of our disasters, the sun, the moon, and the stars : as if we were villains by necessity; fools, by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treachers, by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers, by an enforced obedience... Stultifera Navis: Qua Omnium Mortalium Narratur Stultitia : The Modern Ship ... - Seite 146von William Henry Ireland - 1807 - 295 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Peter J. Leithart - 2006 - 179 Seiten
...knaves, thieves, and treachers by spherical 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 admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition to the charge... | |
| Noga Arikha - 2007 - 412 Seiten
...knaves, thieves, and treachers by spherical predominance, drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforced obedience of planetary influence; and all that we...of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition to the charge of a star! My father compounded with my mother under the dragon's tail, and my nativity... | |
| William Shakespeare - 2008 - 380 Seiten
...sun, the moon and the stars; as if we were villains by necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion, . . . and all that we are evil in by a divine thrusting on: (128-136) Gloster: As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods, They kill us for their sport; (4.1.36-37)... | |
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