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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... "
The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and ... - Page 401
by William Shakespeare - 1821
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The Life and Beauties of Shakespeare: Comprising Careful Selections from ...

William Shakespeare - 1853 - 420 pages
...wealth and lives together; Do, villany, do, since you profess to do't, Like workmen. I'll example yon with thievery: The sun's a thief, and with his great...whose liquid surge resolves The moon into salt tears: toe earth's a thief, That feeds and breeds by a composturet stolen From general excrement: each thing's...
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The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore: Complete in One Volume

Thomas Moore - 1853 - 790 pages
...ode before us are preserved with, such striking similitude : I'll example you with thievery. Тип sun's a thief, and with his great attraction Robs...thief, And her pale fire she snatches from the sun. The sen's ft thief, whose liquid surge resolves Thcinound-i into suit tears. The earth's a lliief. That...
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Vladimir Nabokov: The American Years

Brian Boyd - Biography & Autobiography - 1991 - 838 pages
...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...
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Melville and the Politics of Identity: From King Lear to Moby-Dick

Julian Markels - American fiction - 1993 - 180 pages
...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...
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Playtexts: Ludics in Contemporary Literature

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...whose liquid surge resolves The moon into salt tears; the earth's a thief, That feeds and breeds by a composture stol'n From gen'ral excrement. Each thing's...
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William Shakespeare: The Critical Heritage, Volume 5

Brian Vickers - 1995 - 585 pages
......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...
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Shakespeare: A Life in Drama

Stanley Wells - Biography & Autobiography - 1997 - 438 pages
...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...whose liquid surge resolves The moon into salt tears. The earth's a thief, That feeds and breeds by a composture stol'n From gen'ral excrement. Each thing's...
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Vladimir Nabokov: The Critical Heritage

Norman Page - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 268 pages
...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...
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Yale Studies in English, Volumes 46-47

1913 - 446 pages
...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...
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Nabokov's Pale Fire: The Magic of Artistic Discovery

Brian Boyd - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 316 pages
...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,...whose liquid surge resolves The moon into salt tears. (Timon of Athens, 4.3.435-40) In the past Shade has followed the common academic habit (which Kinbote...
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