 | William Shakespeare - 1839 - 592 pages
...slays More than you rob. Take wealth and lives together ; Do villany, do, since you profess to do't, Like workmen. I'll example you with thievery. The...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... | |
 | 1839 - 842 pages
...the same time both precept and example, he had himself thieved the idea from the mighty Anacreon. " I'll example you with thievery : The sun's a thief,...whose liquid surge resolves The moon into salt tears ; the earth's a thief, That feeds and breeds by a composture stolen From general excrement ; each thing's... | |
 | Ireland - 1839 - 812 pages
...he had himself thieved the idea could almost imagine that, affording at from the mighty Anacreon. " I'll example you with thievery : The sun's a thief,...whose liquid surge resolves The moon into salt tears ; the earth's a thief) That feeds and breeds by a composture stolen From general excrement ; each thing's... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1839 - 534 pages
...not suppose these to be imitations, but only to be similar thoughts on simitar occasions. JOHNSON. 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 stolen From general excrement : each thing's... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Thomas Price - 1839 - 478 pages
...music is such art ; Killing care, and grief of heart, Fall asleep, or, hearing die. 25 — iii. 1. 79 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* stolen From general excrement : each... | |
 | 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...whose liquid surge resolves The moon into salt tears. The earth's a thief, That feeds and breeds hy a composture stolsn From geu'ral excrement: each thing's... | |
 | 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...whose liquid surge resolves The moon into salt tears: the earth's a thief, That feeds and breeds by a composture stolen From general excrement.1' (S. meine... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1840 - 434 pages
...Shakspeare, where the thoughts of the ode before us are preserved with such striking similitude : I '11 example you with thievery. The sun's a thief, and...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... | |
 | Henry Downes Miles - English fiction - 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 resolves The moon into salt tears : the earth's a thief, That feeds and breeds by a composture stolen From general excrement : each thing's... | |
 | William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier - 1842 - 606 pages
...slays More than you rob : take wealth and lives together ; Do villainy, do, since you protest to do't1, Like workmen. I'll example you with thievery : The...whose liquid surge resolves The moon into salt tears : the earth's a thief, That feeds and breeds by a composture stolen From general excrement : each thing's... | |
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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... 
