...his great attraction Robs the vast sea; the moon's an arrant thief, And her pale fire she snatches from the sun; The sea's a thief, whose liquid surge...stolen From general excrement: each thing's a thief. — Timon of Athens 264 Several Athenian senators visit Timon and apologize for the shameful way they...

...his great attraction Robs the vast sea; the moon's an arrant thief, And her pale fire she snatches from the sun; The sea's a thief, 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...

...his great attraction Robs the vast sea; the moon's an arrant thief, And her pale fire she snatches from the sun; The sea's a thief, whose liquid surge...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 rough...

...to read exposure. We have, however, other words of a similar formation in these plays. So in Timon: 'The earth's a thief That feeds and breeds by a composture stolen From general excrement,' IV, iii, 444. [In answer to the implied question in the foregoing it may be said that the NED quotes...

...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, whose liquid surge...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 their rough...

...his great attraction Robs the vast sea. The moon's an arrant thief, And her pale fire she snatches from the sun. The sea's a thief, whose liquid surge...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 in turn;...

...his great attraction Robs the vast sea. The moon's an arrant thief, And her pale fire she snatches from the sun, The sea's a thief, whose liquid surge...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 on others...

...his great attraction Robs the vast sea: the moon's an arrant thief, And her pale fire she snatches from the sun: The sea's a thief, whose liquid surge resolves The moon into salt tears. . . —William Shakespeare in Timons of Athens • The Disguise. Grammar-based mimicry can be quite...

...she began, with admirable assurance. " 'The moon's an errant thief, and her pale fire she snatches from the sun. The sea's a thief, whose liquid surge resolves the moon into salt tears Daric remembered the white light in Myiepa, how it rushed through the trees when he spoke Grandpapa's...

...his great attraction Robs the vast sea; the moon's an arrant thief, And her pale fire she snatches from the sun; The sea's a thief, whose liquid surge...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 germane...