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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 Dramatic Works and Poems of William Shakespeare - Page 209
by William Shakespeare - 1836
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: Accurately Printed from ..., Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1824 - 512 pages
...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 the vast...: the earth's a thief, That feeds and breeds by a composture5 stolen From general excrement : each thing's a thief; The laws, your curb and whip, in...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare, Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1824 - 512 pages
...attraction Robs the vast sea : the moon's an arrant thief. And her pale fire she snatches ;'. f >m tho sun : The sea's a thief, whose liquid surge resolves...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...
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Monthly Review; Or Literary Journal Enlarged

Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - Periodicals - 1824 - 570 pages
...before had given it' a grand paraphrase, in Timon of Athens: " I'll example you with thievery. The sun's a thief, and with his great attraction Robs the vast...thief, And her pale fire she snatches from the sun." We will first cite the original, and then Mr. Richardson's translation; and having, in justice to the...
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Classical Disquisitions and Curiosities: Critical and Historical

Benjamin Heath Malkin - Classical philology - 1825 - 688 pages
...Do villainy, 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 the vast...earth's a thief, That feeds and breeds by a composture stole From general excrement : each thing's a thief, The laws, your curb and whip, in their rough power...
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The Family Shakspeare ... in which Nothing is Added to the Original Text ...

William Shakespeare - 1825 - 442 pages
...Do villainy, 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 the vast...whose liquid surge resolves The moon into salt tears : each thing's a thief; The laws, your curb and whip, in their rough power Have uncheck'd theft. Love...
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A Select Collection of Old Plays: In Twelve Volumes, Volume 7

Robert Dodsley, Isaac Reed, Octavius Gilchrist - English drama - 1825 - 476 pages
...Justices, juries, constables, keepers, and hangmen, I'd practise, spite of all ; and leave behind me " And her pale fire she snatches from the sun ; " The...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...
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The plays of William Shakspeare, pr. from the text by G. Steevens ..., Volume 7

William Shakespeare - 1826 - 648 pages
...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 the vast...earth's a thief, That feeds and breeds by a composture 4 stolen From general excrement : each thing's a thief; The laws, your curb and whip, in their rough...
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Timon of Athens. Coriolanus. Julius Caesar. Antony and Cleopatra

William Shakespeare - 1826 - 560 pages
...Like workmen. I'll example you with thievery : The sun's a thief, and with his great attraction Hobs the vast sea : the moon's an arrant thief, And her...whose liquid surge resolves The moon into salt tears 6l : the earth's a thief, That feeds and breeds by a composture62 stol'n From general excrement : each...
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The Beauties of Shakspeare Regularly Selected from Each Play. With a General ...

William Shakespeare, William Dodd - 1827 - 362 pages
...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 the vast...into salt tears: the earth's a thief, That feeds and fcreeds by a composturef stolen From general excrement: each thing's a thief; The laws, your curb and...
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The First Twenty-eight Odes of Anacreon: In Greek and in English and in Both ...

Anacreon, John Broderick Roche - 1827 - 330 pages
...before us are preserved with such striking similitude :" — " I'll example you with thievery. The sun's a thief, and with his great attraction Robs the vast...The sea's a thief, whose liquid surge resolves The mounds into soft tears. The earth's a thief, That feeds, and breeds by a cornposture stolen From general...
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