 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 588 pages
...villainy, do, since you profess to do't, Ijkc workmen. I'll example you with thievery: • For legal, The sun's a thief, and with his great attraction Robs...the moon's an arrant thief, And her pale fire she suatches from the sun ; The sea's a thief, whose liquid surge resolves The'moon into salt tears : the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1823 - 346 pages
...suppose these to he imitations, but only to be similar thoughts on similar occasions. JOHNSON. 'I'll, sun's a thief, and with his great attraction Robs...stolen From general excrement : each thing's a thief ; The laws, your curb and whip, in their rough power Have uncheck'd theft. Love not yourselves ; away... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1823 - 636 pages
...Do villainy, do, since you profess to do't, Like workmen. I'll example you with thievery : The sim's a thief, and with his great attraction Robs the vast...earth's a thief, That feeds and breeds by a composture 5 stolen From general excrement: each thing's a thief; The laws, your curb and whip, in their rough... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1823 - 350 pages
...easily managed :- — a plagiarism from Anacreon hath been detected. The sun's a thief, and with hi* great attraction Robs the vast sea. The moon's an...The earth's a thief, • That feeds and breeds by a composlure stol'n From gen'ral excrement : each thing's a thief. " This (says Dr. Dodd) is a good deal... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1823 - 376 pages
...where the thonghts of the ode before us are preserved with such striking similitude : TIMON, ACT. IV. I'll example you with thievery. The sun's a thief,...The sea's a thief, whose liquid surge resolves The mounds into salt tears. The earth's a thief, That feeds, and breeds by a composture stolen From general... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1823 - 378 pages
...where the thoughts of the ode before us are preserved with snch striking similitude : TIMON, ACT. IV. I'll example you with thievery. The sun's a thief, and with his great attraction Robs the va*.t sea. The moon's an arrant thief, And her pale 6re she suatches from the sun. The sea's a thief,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1824 - 422 pages
...you rob : take wealth and lives together j Do villany, do, since you profess to do't, Like workmen. I'll example you with thievery : The sun's a thief,...stolen From general excrement : each thing's a thief; The laws, your curb and whip, in their rough power Have uncheck'd theft. Love not yourselves; away;... | |
 | British poets - 1824 - 676 pages
...the prop That doth sustain my house ; you take my life, When you do take the means whereby I live. I'll example you with thievery, The sun's a thief,...stolen From general excrement : each thing's a thief; The laws, your curb and whip, in their rough power Have uncheck'd theft. Bankrupts, hold fast ; Rather... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1824 - 512 pages
...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,...: the earth's a thief, That feeds and breeds by a composture5 stolen From general excrement : each thing's a thief; The laws, your curb and whip, in... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - Periodicals - 1824 - 570 pages
...apology for drinking; and Shakspeare long before had given it' a grand paraphrase, in Timon of Athens: " I'll example you with thievery. The sun's a thief,...thief, And her pale fire she snatches from the sun." We will first cite the original, and then Mr. Richardson's translation; and having, in justice to the... | |
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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... 
