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

...man; what Can it not do and undo? (n.iii.75-78) And in Timon of Athens he side-lined Timon's words, The sun's a thief, and with his great attraction Robs...sea: the moon's an arrant thief, And her pale fire snatches from the sun: The sea's a thief, whose liquid surge resolves The moon into salt tears: the...

...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...whose liquid surge resolves The moon into salt tears; the earth's a thief, That feeds and breeds by a composture stol'n From gen'ral excrement. Each thing's...

......But matters may not always be so easily managed: — a plagiarism from Anacreon hath been detected! The Sun's a thief, and with his great attraction Robs the vast Sea. The Moon's an arrant thief, 1 Kurd, ibid. (4.305). Upton, Critical Observations, p. 255. * I find the character of this work pretty...

...group of 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...whose liquid surge resolves The moon into salt tears. The earth's a thief, That feeds and breeds by a composture stol'n From gen'ral excrement. Each thing's...

...But Mr. 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...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...

...intertextual reference, derived in part from variora annotation, to comment on lines spoken by Timon: "The sea's a thief, whose liquid surge resolves / The moon into salt tears" (4.3.439-40). Chedworth remarks: That Shakespeare knew the moon is the cause of tides appears likewise...

...Shakespeare, and if we reach for a concordance, we find our hunch is right: 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. (Timon of Athens, 4.3.435-40) In the past Shade has followed the common academic habit (which Kinbote...

...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...whose liquid surge resolves The moon into salt tears; the earth's a thief, That feeds and breeds by a composture stol'n From gen'ral excrement — each thing's...

...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...whose liquid surge resolves The moon into salt tears. The earth's a thief, That feeds and breeds by a composture stol'n From general excrement: each thing's...