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George Chapman Quotes (1559-1634)
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βNor could the foole abstaine,
But drunke as often.β
But drunke as often.β
βThe lady of the light, the rosy-fingered Morn,
Rose from the hills.β
Rose from the hills.β
β'Tis immortality to die aspiring,
As if a man were taken quick to heaven.β
As if a man were taken quick to heaven.β
βThis was a sleight well mask'd. O, what is man,
Unless he be a Politician?β
Unless he be a Politician?β
βObscuritie in affection of words, & indigested concets, is pedanticall and childish...β
βFor one heat, all know, doth drive out another,
One passion doth expel another still.β
One passion doth expel another still.β
βI tell thee Love is Nature's second sun,
Causing a spring of virtues where he shines.β
Causing a spring of virtues where he shines.β
βHe is at no end of his actions blest
Whose ends will make him greatest, and not best.β
Whose ends will make him greatest, and not best.β
βLove is a golden bubble, full of dreams,
That waking breaks, and fills us with extremes.β
That waking breaks, and fills us with extremes.β
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George Chapman on Love 2 quotes
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βHis deedes inimitable, like the Sea That shuts still as it opes, and leaves no tracts Nor prints of Precedent for poore men's facts.β
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George Chapman on Homer 2 quotes
View all 2 quotes on Homer →George Chapman on Women
βLet no man value at a little price A virtuous woman's counsel; her wing'd spirit Is feather'd oftentimes with heavenly words.β
George Chapman on Virgil
βHomer's poems were writ from a free fury, an absolute and full soul; Virgil's out of a courtly, laborious, and altogether imitatory spirit: not a simile he hath but is Homer's; not an invention, person, or disposition but is wholly or originally built upon Homerical foundations, and in many places hath the very words Homer useth.β
George Chapman on Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford
βI overtook, coming from Italy, In Germany, a great and famous Earl Of England; the most goodly fashioned man I ever saw: from head to foot in form Rare and most absolute; he had a face Like one of the most ancient honoured Romans From whence his noblest family was derived; He was besides of spirit passing great Valiant and learned, and liberal as the sun, Spoke and writ sweetly, or of learned subjects, Or of the discipline of public weals: And 'twas the Earl of Oxford.β
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Douglas Bush on George Chapman
βIf Homer could return from Elysium to read all the English renderings, he would surely find in Chapman his truest son, a man who has fed on lions' marrow.β
William Godwin on George Chapman
βThe translation of Homer, published by George Chapman, in the reign of queen Elizabeth and king James, is one of the greatest treasures the English language has to boast.β
Henry Hallam on George Chapman
βHe has more thinking than many of the old dramatists; and the praise of one of his critics, though strongly worded, is not without some foundation, that we "seldom find richer contemplations on the nature of man and the world."β
William Hazlitt on George Chapman
βChapman, ... where he lays aside the gravity of the philosopher and poet, discovers an unexpected comic vein, distinguished by equal truth of nature and lively good humour.β
John Keats on George Chapman
βMuch have I travell'd in the realms of gold, And many goodly states and kingdoms seen; Round many western islands have I been Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold. Oft of one wide expanse had I been told That deep-brow'd Homer ruled as his demesne; Yet did I never breathe its pure serene Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold: Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He stared at the Pacificβand all his men Look'd at each other with a wild surmiseβ Silent, upon a peak in Darien.β
Disputed Quotes
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βOur hopes, I see, resemble much the sun,
That rising and declining cast large shadows;
But when his beams are dressed in's midday brightness,
Yields none at all: when they are farthest from
Success, their guilt reflection does display
The largest shows of events fair and prosperous.β
That rising and declining cast large shadows;
But when his beams are dressed in's midday brightness,
Yields none at all: when they are farthest from
Success, their guilt reflection does display
The largest shows of events fair and prosperous.β
βI know an Englishman,
Being flattered, is a lamb; threatened, a lion.β
Being flattered, is a lamb; threatened, a lion.β