 | William Shakespeare - 1852 - 562 pages
...Like workmen. I'll example you with thievery: The sun's a thief, and with his great attraction Rob-» r with him. York. You mean, to bear me, not to bear...me: — Uncle, my brother mocks both you and me ; iuto salt tears : the earth's a thief, That feeds and breeds by a composture5 stolen From general excrement... | |
 | Rolf Soellner, Gary Jay Williams - Pessimism in literature - 1979 - 264 pages
...the bandits: 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...tears; the earth's a thief. That feeds and breeds by a com posture stol'n From gen'ral excrement; each thing's a thief. (4,3.438-45) For Shakespeare's audience,... | |
 | L. C. Knights - Literary Criticism - 1979 - 326 pages
...he declaims: 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...sun; The sea's a thief, whose liquid surge resolves "3 The moon into salt tears ; the earth's a thief, That feeds and breeds by a composture stol'n From... | |
 | Brian Boyd - Biography & Autobiography - 1991 - 838 pages
...to be everybody — should check the original: The sun's a thief, and with his great attraction Robs the vast sea; the moon's an arrant thief, And her...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 - American fiction - 1993 - 180 pages
...thief, and with his great attraction Robs the vast sea: the moon's an arrant thief, And her pale fire snatches from the sun: The sea's a thief, whose liquid...and whip, in their rough power Have uncheck'd theft. (IV.iii.439-47) In all these passages personal and social corruption reflect each other and are parr... | |
 | Warren F. Motte - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 262 pages
...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...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, quirky, unbalanced coincidence... | |
 | Brian Vickers - 1995 - 585 pages
...Thus 'twixt one Plutarch there's more difference, Than i'th' same Englishman return'd from France. And her pale fire she snatches from the Sun. The Sea's...Earth's a thief, That feeds and breeds by a composture stol'n From gen'ral excrements: each thing's a thief. [Timon of Athens, 4.3.439ff.] 'This, says Dr.... | |
 | Stanley Wells - Biography & Autobiography - 1997 - 438 pages
...which all nature is seen as a prey upon itself: The sun's a thief, and with his great attraction Robs the vast sea. The moon's an arrant thief, And her...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) King Lear's reconciliation with Cordelia... | |
 | Norman Page - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 268 pages
...Athens,' and so it is; in Act IV, Scene 3: '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.' The reference to Kinbote's academic rape of Shade's poem is, as we say, unmistakable. (The exegetical itch... | |
 | 1913 - 446 pages
...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...; the earth's a thief, That feeds and breeds by a oomposture stolen From general excrement ; each thing's a thief : The laws, your curb and whip, in... | |
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