...destructiveness with human wickedness is his sermon to the bandits: I'll example you with thievery: The sun's a thief, and with his great attraction Robs the vast...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,...

...effect, a thief. Confronted with the bandits, he declaims: I'll example you with thievery: The sun's a thief, and with his great attraction Robs the vast...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...

...their suspicions aroused — and this ought to be everybody — should check the original: The sun's a thief, and with his great attraction Robs the vast...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...

...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...

...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...That feeds and breeds by a composture stol'n From gen'ral excrement. Each thing's a thief.10 The crooked, quirky, unbalanced coincidence of the two passages...

...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...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. Dodd, is a...

...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 the vast...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 is also...

...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 / Robs the...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...

...generosity takes from another and endlessly gives. "I'll example you with thievery," Timon says: The sun's a thief, and with his great attraction Robs the vast...whose liquid surge resolves The moon into salt tears. . . . But Nabokov steals from his speech to express not Timon's contempt for universal thievery but...