 | Julian Markels - 1993 - Liczba stron: 180
...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... | |
 | Brian Vickers - 1995 - Liczba stron: 585
......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... | |
 | Warren F. Motte - 1995 - Liczba stron: 262
...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 fire she snatches from the sun; The sea's a thief, whose liquid surge resolves The moon into salt tears; the earth's a thief, That... | |
 | Norman Page - 1997 - Liczba stron: 268
...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...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... | |
 | Stanley Wells - 1997 - Liczba stron: 438
...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...thief, And her pale fire she snatches from the sun. The sea's a thief, whose liquid surge resolves The moon into salt tears. The earth's a thief, That... | |
 | 1913 - Liczba stron: 446
...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 - Liczba stron: 316
...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,...thief, And her pale fire she snatches from the sun; The sea's a thief, whose liquid surge resolves The moon into salt tears. (Timon of Athens, 4.3.435-40)... | |
 | Henry Charles Lea Professor of History Emeritus Natalie Zemon Davis, Natalie Zemon Davis - 2000 - Liczba stron: 210
...courtesy, "We are born to do benefits." Now from his cave, he declares to bandits, "Each thing's a thief": The sun's a thief, and with his great attraction Robs...thief, And her pale fire she snatches from the sun; The sea's a thief, whose liquid surge resolves The moon into salt tears; the earth's a thief, That... | |
 | Wystan Hugh Auden - 2002 - Liczba stron: 428
...birds and fishes; / You must eat men" (IV.iii.419-20, 424-27). Timon then urges them to remain thieves: I'll example you with thievery. The sun's a thief,...thief, And her pale fire she snatches from the sun, The sea's a thief, whose liquid surge resolves The moon into salt tears. The earth's a thief, That... | |
 | Peter Wayner - 2002 - Liczba stron: 444
...arrived yet?" The other responds, "Yes. It will cost you 10,000 bananas." The potentials are amazing. The sun's a thief, and with his great attraction Robs...thief, And her pale fire she snatches from the sun: The sea's a thief, whose liquid surge resolves The moon into salt tears. . . —William Shakespeare... | |
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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... 
