George Chapman was an English dramatist, translator and poet. He was a classical scholar whose work shows the influence of Stoicism. Chapman has been speculated to be the Rival Poet of Shakespeare's sonnets by William Minto, and as an anticipator of the metaphysical poets of the 17th century. Chapman is best remembered for his translations of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, and the Homeric Batrachomyomachia. Wikipedia
“I tell thee Love is Nature's second sun,
Causing a spring of virtues where he shines.”
Act I, scene i.
All Fools (1605)
Act IV, scene i.
All Fools (1605)
“Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.”
Act V, scene i.
All Fools (1605)
“Cornelia. What flowers are these?
Gazetta. The pansy this.
Cor. Oh, that's for lover's thoughts.”
Act II, scene i.
All Fools (1605)
Book VIII, line 487, p. 115 https://books.google.com/books?id=ashjAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA115&dq=%22As+when+about%22
The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets (1611)
“Love is a golden bubble, full of dreams,
That waking breaks, and fills us with extremes.”
Hero and Leander: a poem (1600), begun by Christopher Marlowe, and finished by George Chapman. Sestiad III.
Hymnus in noctem, line 398
The Shadow of Night (1594)
Book VI, line 506, p. 94
The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets (1611)
“None ever loved but at first sight they loved.”
The Blind Beggar of Alexandria (1596); reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Compare: "Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?" Christopher Marlowe, Hero and Leander (1598).
Act III, scene i; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
The Conspiracy and Tragedy of Charles, Duke of Byron (1608)
“The sea had soaked his heart through”
Homer's Odysses (1614), Book V, line 608; shipwrecked Odysseus washes up on Scheria.
Context: Then forth he came, his both knees falt'ring, both
His strong hands hanging down, and all with froth
His cheeks and nostrils flowing, voice and breath
Spent to all use, and down he sunk to death.
The sea had soaked his heart through; all his veins
His toils had rack'd t'a labouring woman's pains.
Dead weary was he.
“Danger (the spur of all great minds) is ever
The curb to your tame spirits.”
The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois (1613), Act V, scene i.
Book I, line 1, p. 1
The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets (1611)
Context: Achilles' baneful wrath resound, O Goddess, that imposed
Infinite sorrows on the Greeks, and many brave souls loosed
From breasts heroic, sent them far to that invisible cave
That no light comforts, and their limbs to dogs and vultures gave;
To all which Jove's will gave effect; from whom first strife begun
Betwixt Atrides, king of men, and Thetis' godlike son.
“He is at no end of his actions blest
Whose ends will make him greatest, and not best.”
Act V, scene i; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
The Conspiracy and Tragedy of Charles, Duke of Byron (1608)
The Gentleman Usher, Act IV, scene i; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“They're only truly great who are truly good.”
Revenge for Honour, Act V, scene ii; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Disputed
Act IV, scene i.
The Conspiracy and Tragedy of Charles, Duke of Byron (1608)
“He that to nought aspires, doth nothing need;
Who breaks no law is subject to no king.”
The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois (1613), Act IV, scene i.
“As night the life-inclining stars best shows,
So lives obscure the starriest souls disclose.”
Epilogue to Translations; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Act III, scene ii.
Eastward Hoe (1605)
Revenge for Honour (1654), Act II, scene i. Attributed, probably falsely, to Chapman. The play may have been written by Henry Glapthorne.
Disputed
“Who to himself is law no law doth need,
Offends no law, and is a king indeed.”
Act II, scene i.
Bussy D'Ambois (1607)
“Man is a torch borne in the wind; a dream
But of a shadow, summ'd with all his substance.”
Act I, scene i.
Bussy D'Ambois (1607)
Act I, scene i.
Bussy D'Ambois (1607)
“For one heat, all know, doth drive out another,
One passion doth expel another still.”
Monsieur D'Olive, Act V, scene i; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Black is a pearl in a woman's eye.”
An Humorous Day's Mirth; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Nor could the foole abstaine,
But drunke as often.”
Homer's Odysses (1614), Book IX, line 496
Hymnus in noctem, line 1
The Shadow of Night (1594)
Preface to Ovid's Banquet of Sense (1595)
“As far as white Aurora's dews are sprinkled through the air.”
Book VII, line 374, p. 104
The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets (1611)
“Each natural agent works but to this end,—
To render that it works on like itself.”
Act III, scene i.
Bussy D'Ambois (1607)
Book XXIV, line 494, p. 336
The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets (1611)
“Virtue is not malicious; wrong done her
Is righted even when men grant they err.”
Monsieur D'Olive, Act I, scene i; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Obscuritie in affection of words, & indigested concets, is pedanticall and childish…”
Preface to Ovid's Banquet of Sense (1595)
“The lady of the light, the rosy-fingered Morn,
Rose from the hills.”
Book I, line 460, p. 11
The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets (1611)
“Promise is most given when the least is said.”
Musæus of Hero and Leander; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Book III, line 167, p. 41
The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets (1611)
Act I, scene i.
Eastward Hoe (1605)
“This was a sleight well mask'd. O, what is man,
Unless he be a Politician?”
Act I, scene i.
Bussy D'Ambois (1607)
“Tis immortality to die aspiring,
As if a man were taken quick to heaven.”
Act I, scene i; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
The Conspiracy and Tragedy of Charles, Duke of Byron (1608)
“Fair words never hurt the tongue.”
Act IV, scene i.
Eastward Hoe (1605)
“I know an Englishman,
Being flattered, is a lamb; threatened, a lion.”
Alphonsus, Emperor of Germany (1654), Act I, scene ii, lines 208–209. Attributed, probably falsely, to Chapman. Perhaps by George Peele.
Disputed
Act III, scene i.
The Conspiracy and Tragedy of Charles, Duke of Byron (1608)
“To put a girdle round about the world.”
Act I, scene i.
Bussy D'Ambois (1607)
The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois (1613)
Act I, scene i.
Bussy D'Ambois (1607)
An Humorous Day's Mirth; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Revenge for Honour, Act V, scene ii; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Disputed
“I am ashamed the law is such an ass.”
Revenge for Honour, Act III, scene ii.
Disputed
Poor envious souls they are that cavil at truth's want in these natural fictions; material instruction, elegant and sententious excitation to virtue, and deflection from her contrary, being the soul, limbs, and limits of an authentical tragedy.
The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois (1613)
