...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,...

...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...

...from Timón of Athens which contains the phrase reflects on various modes of reflected illumination: The sun's a thief, and with his great attraction Robs the vast sea. The moon's an errant thief, And her pale fire she snatches from the sun. [4.3.439-41] The series of robberies here...

...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...

...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...

...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...

......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...

...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...

...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...

...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...