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“Exceeding fair she was not; and yet fair
In that she never studied to be fairer
Than Nature made her; beauty cost her nothing,
Her virtues were so rare.”

George Chapman All Fools

Act I, scene i.
All Fools (1605)

“Who to himself is law no law doth need,
Offends no law, and is a king indeed.”

George Chapman Bussy D'Ambois

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.”

George Chapman Bussy D'Ambois

Act I, scene i.
Bussy D'Ambois (1607)

“His deeds inimitable, like the sea
That shuts still as it opes, and leaves no tracts
Nor prints of precedent for poor men's facts.”

George Chapman Bussy D'Ambois

Act I, scene i.
Bussy D'Ambois (1607)

“None ever loved but at first sight they loved.”

George Chapman The Blind Beggar of Alexandria

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).

“For one heat, all know, doth drive out another,
One passion doth expel another still.”

George Chapman Monsieur D'Olive

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.”

George Chapman An Humorous Day's Mirth

An Humorous Day's Mirth; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“Nor could the foole abstaine,
But drunke as often.”

George Chapman

Homer's Odysses (1614), Book IX, line 496

“Great goddess, to whose throne in Cynthian fires,
This earthly altar endless fumes expires;
Therefore, in fumes of sighs and fires of grief,
To fearful chances thou send'st bold relief,
Happy, thrice happy type, and nurse of death,
Who, breathless, feeds on nothing but our breath,
In whom must virtue and her issue live,
Or die for ever.”

George Chapman

Hymnus in noctem, line 1
The Shadow of Night (1594)

“Poetry, unlike oratory, should not aim at clarity… but be dense with meaning, 'something to be chewed and digested'…”

George Chapman

Preface to Ovid's Banquet of Sense (1595)

“As far as white Aurora's dews are sprinkled through the air.”

George Chapman

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.”

George Chapman Bussy D'Ambois

Act III, scene i.
Bussy D'Ambois (1607)

“This said, he reached to take his son; who, of his arms afraid,
And then the horse-hair plume, with which he was so overlaid,
Nodded so horribly, he clinged back to his nurse, and cried.
Laughter affected his great sire, who doffed and laid aside
His fearful helm, that on the earth cast round about it light;
Then took and kissed his loving son, and (balancing his weight
In dancing him) these loving vows to living Jove he used,
And all the other bench of Gods: "O you that have infused
Soul to this infant, now set down this blessing on his star:
Let his renown be clear as mine; equal his strength in war."”

George Chapman

Book VI, line 506, p. 94
The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets (1611)

“Music, and mood, she loves, but love she hates
(As curious ladies do, their public cates),
This train, with meteors, comets, lightenings,
The dreadful presence of our empress sings:
Which grant for ever (O eternal Night)
Till virtue flourish in the light of light.”

George Chapman

Hymnus in noctem, line 398
The Shadow of Night (1594)

“Love is a golden bubble, full of dreams,
That waking breaks, and fills us with extremes.”

George Chapman

Hero and Leander: a poem (1600), begun by Christopher Marlowe, and finished by George Chapman. Sestiad III.

“So our lives
In acts exemplary, not only win
Ourselves good names, but doth to others give
Matter for virtuous deeds, by which we live.”

George Chapman Bussy D'Ambois

Act I, scene i.
Bussy D'Ambois (1607)

“Mourne not inevitable things; thy teares can spring no deeds
To helpe thee, nor recall thy sonne: impacience ever breeds
Ill upon ill, makes worst things worse.”

George Chapman

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.”

George Chapman Monsieur D'Olive

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…”

George Chapman

Preface to Ovid's Banquet of Sense (1595)

“Give me a spirit that on this life's rough sea
Loves t' have his sails fill'd with a lusty wind,
Even till his sail-yards tremble, his masts crack,
And his rapt ship run on her side so low
That she drinks water, and her keel plows air.”

George Chapman The Conspiracy and Tragedy of Charles, Duke of Byron

Act III, scene i; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
The Conspiracy and Tragedy of Charles, Duke of Byron (1608)