 | Natalie Zemon Davis - 2000 - 210 pages
...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...tears; the earth's a thief, That feeds and breeds by a composture stol'n From gen'ral excrement — each thing's a thief. The laws, your curb and whip, in... | |
 | W. H. Auden - 2002 - 428 pages
...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, and with his great attraction Robs...tears. The earth's a thief, That feeds and breeds by a composture stol'n From gen'ral excrement. Each thing's a thief. (IV.iii.438-45) We have to encroach... | |
 | George Wilson Knight - 2002 - 348 pages
...thievery' onwards his gestures are fantastic, conjuring up the great cosmos, sun, moon, sea and earth: The sun's a thief, and with his great attraction Robs...tears. The earth's a thief, That feeds and breeds by a composture stol'n From general excrement: each thing's a thief . . . He points to moon, sea, and earth... | |
 | Peter Wayner - 2002 - 444 pages
...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...whose liquid surge resolves The moon into salt tears. . . —William Shakespeare in Timons of Athens • The Disguise. Grammar-based mimicry can be quite... | |
 | Natalie Zemon Davis - 2002 - 236 pages
...a thief, and with his great attraction Robs the vast sea; the moon's an arrant thief, And her pate fire she snatches from the sun; The sea's a thief,...tears; the earth's a thief, That feeds and breeds by a composture stol'n From gcn'ral excrement — each thing's a thief. The laws, your curb and whip, in... | |
 | Heather Dubrow - 2004 - 264 pages
...Athens to which I referred above, the cycles of nature metamorphose into endless cycles of criminality: The sun's a thief, and with his great attraction Robs...tears; the earth's a thief, That feeds and breeds by a composture stol'n From gen'ral excrement. (IV.iii.436-442) This type of uncontrolled breeding is especially... | |
 | Irving Ribner - 2005 - 232 pages
...reflects a pattern of injustice with which human thievery may accord: I'll example you with thievery: The sun's a thief, and with his great attraction Robs...: the 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... | |
 | Helen Deutsch - 2005 - 337 pages
...theme begins with the title, taken from Shakespeare's Timon of Athens: 111 example you with thievery: The sun's a thief, and with his great attraction Robs...whose liquid surge resolves The moon into salt tears. (4.3.435—40) This motif of resemblance as both theft and transformation (staged by Nabokov/Shade's... | |
 | Jill Phillips Ingram - 2006 - 196 pages
...rules of incorporation, but also against laws. Before he does so, he explains the thievery in nature: The sun's a thief, and with his great attraction Robs...tears; the earth's a thief, That feeds and breeds by a composture stol'n From gen'ral excrement; each thing's a thief. The laws, your curb and whip, in their... | |
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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... 
