 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 462 pàgines
...slays More than you rob : take wealth and lives together ; Do villany, do, since you profess to do't, Like workmen. I'll example you with thievery : The sun's a thief, and with his groat attraction Robs the vast sea ; the moon's an arrant thief, And her pale fire she snatches from... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 586 pàgines
...: the moon 's an arrant thief, * Begular. And her pale fire she snatches from the sun : The sea 'sa thief, whose liquid surge resolves The moon into salt tears : the earth's a thief, That feeds and breeds by a composture * stolen From general excrement ; each thing 'sa thief; The laws,... | |
 | Brian Boyd - 1991 - 838 pàgines
...Readers with their suspicions aroused — and this ought to be everybody — should check the original: The sun's a thief, and with his great attraction Robs...whose liquid surge resolves The moon into salt tears. Those who make the effort* are rewarded not only with the source of Shade's title, but with a hilariously... | |
 | Julian Markels - 1993 - 180 pàgines
...man; what Can it not do and undo? (n.iii.75-78) And in Timon of Athens he side-lined Timon's words, The sun's a thief, and with his great attraction Robs...sea: the moon's an arrant thief, And her pale fire snatches from the sun: The sea's a thief, whose liquid surge resolves The moon into salt tears: the... | |
 | Warren F. Motte - 1995 - 262 pàgines
...translation. It occurs in Tittum of Athent IV iii: The sun's a thief, and with his great attraction Robs 1he vast sea; the moon's an arrant thief, And her pale...resolves The moon into salt tears; the earth's a thief, That feeds and breeds by a composture stol'n From gen'ral excrement. Each thing's a thief.10 The crooked,... | |
 | Brian Vickers - 1995 - 585 pàgines
......But matters may not always be so easily managed: — a plagiarism from Anacreon hath been detected! The Sun's a thief, and with his great attraction Robs the vast Sea. The Moon's an arrant thief, 1 Kurd, ibid. (4.305). Upton, Critical Observations, p. 255. * I find the character of this work pretty... | |
 | Stanley Wells - 1997 - 438 pàgines
...group of thieves provokes another great outburst in which all nature is seen as a prey upon itself: The sun's a thief, and with his great attraction Robs...resolves The moon into salt tears. The earth's a thief, That feeds and breeds by a composture stol'n From gen'ral excrement. Each thing's a thief. (4.3.438-44)... | |
 | Norman Page - 1997 - 268 pàgines
...But Mr. Nabokov in an interview says it is from 'Timon of Athens,' and so it is; in Act IV, Scene 3: 'The sun's a thief, and with his great attraction...And her pale fire she snatches from the sun.' The reference to Kinbote's academic rape of Shade's poem is, as we say, unmistakable. (The exegetical itch... | |
 | 1913 - 446 pàgines
...her light doth rob her brother, What ist in man, one man to rob another.' (City Wit 4. 1. p. 341.) I'll example you with thievery : The sun's a thief, and with his great attraction Bobs the vast sea : the moon's an arrant thief, And her pale fire she snatches from the sun : The sea's... | |
 | Brian Boyd - 2001 - 316 pàgines
...may have borrowed from Shakespeare, and if we reach for a concordance, we find our hunch is right: I'll example you with thievery: The sun's a thief,...whose liquid surge resolves The moon into salt tears. (Timon of Athens, 4.3.435-40) In the past Shade has followed the common academic habit (which Kinbote... | |
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I'll example you with thievery: The sun's a thief, and with his great attraction Robs the vast sea: the moon's an arrant thief, And her pale fire she snatches from the sun... 
