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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 Cyclopædia of Practical Quotations: English and Latin, with an Appendix ... - Page 417
by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt - 1882 - 899 pages
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The Dublin University Magazine, Volume 14

1839 - 812 pages
...could almost imagine that, affording at from the mighty Anacreon. " 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." Timon qfAthent, act i v. teens 3....
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: Richard III. Henry VIII. Troilus ...

William Shakespeare - 1839 - 592 pages
...together; Do villany, do, since you profess to do't, Like workmen. I'll example you with thievery. The sun's a thief, and with his great attraction Robs...whose liquid surge resolves The moon into salt tears; 2 the earth's a thief, That feeds and breeds by a composture 3 stolen From general excrement; each...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: Henry IV, pt. 2. Henry V. Henry VI ...

William Shakespeare - 1839 - 592 pages
...together ; Do villany, do, since you profess to do't, Like workmen. I'll example you with thievery. The sun's a thief, and with his great attraction Robs...whose liquid surge resolves The moon into salt tears ; 2 the earth's a thief, That feeds and breeds by a composture 3 stolen From general excrement; each...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare, Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1839 - 550 pages
...from Anacreon hath been detected, j The sun's a thief, and wilh his great attraction Robs the vii •( sea. The moon's an arrant thief, And her pale fire...tears. The earth's a thief, That feeds and breeds hy a composture stolsn From geu'ral excrement: each thing's a thief, " This (says Dr. Dodd) is a good...
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Meister Franz Rabelais der arzeney doctoren Gargantua und Pantagruel aus dem ...

François Rabelais - 1839 - 1206 pages
...thievery: The sun's a Ihief, and with his great attraction Hob« the vast sea: Ihe moon's au arrant t bid', And her pale fire she snatches from the sun : The...tears: the earth's a thief, That feeds and breeds by a composture stolen From general excrement.1' (S. meine Uibcrftçung beê Simon «on Athen, -Jrcicfau...
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The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore, Volume 1

Thomas Moore - 1840 - 434 pages
...of the ode before us are preserved with such striking similitude : I '11 example you with thievery. The sun's a thief, and with his great attraction Robs...The sea's a thief, whose liquid surge resolves The mounds into salt tears. The earth's a thief, That feeds, and breeds by a composture stol'n From general...
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Dick Turpin

Henry Downes Miles - 1840 - 344 pages
...with hie great attraction Robe the vast eea: the moon'e an arrant thief. And her pale fire ehe filches from the sun : The sea's a thief, whose liquid surge...: 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...
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The Works of William Shakespeare: Troilus and Cressida ; Coriolanus ; Titus ...

William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier - 1842 - 608 pages
...together ; Do villainy, do, since you protest to do't1, Like workmen. 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...
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The Dublin University Magazine, Volume 19

1842 - 840 pages
...markable in itself ; but it is curious as pardoned for quoting.. -I'll example you with thievery : The sun's a thief, and with his great attraction Robs...The sea's a thief, whose liquid surge resolves The mounds into salt tears. The earth's a thief That feeds and breeds by a composture stolen From general...
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The works of Shakspere, revised from the best authorities: with a ..., Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1843 - 594 pages
...together ; Do villany, do, since you profess to do 't, Like workmen. I 'll example you with thievery : The sun's a thief, and with his great attraction Robs...And her pale fire she snatches from the sun : The sea 'sa thief, whose liquid surge resolves The moon into salt tears : the earth 'sa thief, That feeds...
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