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George Chapman Quotes (1559-1634)
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βEnough 's as good as a feast.β
βMake ducks and drakes with shillings.β
βPromise is most given when the least is said.β
βUse makes things nothing huge, and huge things nothing.β
βNor could the foole abstaine,
But drunke as often.β
But drunke as often.β
βAs far as white Aurora's dews are sprinkled through the air.β
βNone ever loved but at first sight they loved.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
βEach natural agent works but to this end,β
To render that it works on like itself.β
To render that it works on like itself.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
βHe that to nought aspires, doth nothing need;
Who breaks no law is subject to no king.β
Who breaks no law is subject to no king.β
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George Chapman on Love 2 quotes
βNone ever loved, but at first sight they loved.β
George Chapman on Deeds 2 quotes
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
George Chapman on Hunger
βEnough is as good as a feast.β
George Chapman on Money
βMake ducks and drakes with shillings.β
George Chapman on English proverbs (alphabetically by proverb)
βMake ducks and drakes with shillings.β
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George Chapman on Promises
βPromise is most given when the least is said.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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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
Quotes attributed to George Chapman that are questionable.
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
βThey're only truly great who are truly good.β
βI know an Englishman,
Being flattered, is a lamb; threatened, a lion.β
Being flattered, is a lamb; threatened, a lion.β