 | William Shakespeare - 1866 - 728 sidor
...Like workmen. I'll example you with thievery : The sun's a thief, and with his great attraction Eobs 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 general excrement: each thing's a thief: The laws, your curb and whip, in their rough power... | |
 | Rolf Soellner, Gary Jay Williams - 1979 - 264 sidor
...which Tirnon parallels nature's destructiveness with human wickedness is his sermon to the bandits: I'll example you with thievery: The sun's a thief,...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 - 1979 - 326 sidor
...were essentially dishonest. He has been, in effect, a thief. Confronted with the bandits, he declaims: I'll example you with thievery: The sun's a thief,...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 - 1991 - 838 sidor
...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 sidor
...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...earth's a thief That feeds and breeds by a composture stolen From general excrement: each thing's a thief; The laws, your curb and whip, in their rough power... | |
 | Warren F. Motte - 1995 - 262 sidor
...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 sidor
...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 - 1997 - 438 sidor
...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...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 - 1997 - 268 sidor
...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 sidor
...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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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... 
