George Chapman
George Chapman
George Chapmanwas an English dramatist, translator, and poet. He was a classical scholar whose work shows the influence of Stoicism. Chapman has been identified as 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...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
spent
We've spent $300,000 and it doesn't look much different.
doth himself indeed king law offends
Who to himself is law, no law doth need, offends no law, and is a king indeed
advice british-statesman
Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least.
I am ashamed the law is such an ass.
pride shame
Let pride go afore, shame will follow after.
archer men two
Archers ever Have two strings to bow; and shall great Cupid (Archer of archers both in men and women), Be worse provided than a common archer?
stars night soul
As night the life-inclining stars best shows, So lives obscure the starriest souls disclose.
sleep eye blood
Blood, though it sleep a time, yet never dies. The gods on murtherers fix revengeful eyes.
money ducks
Make ducks and drakes with shillings.
weed ill grows
An ill weed grows apace.
water
Words writ in waters.
dream men wind
Man is a torch borne in the wind; a dream But of a shadow, summed with all his substance.
ambition immortality dies
Tis immortality to die aspiring.
mind spurs great-minds
Danger, the spur of all great minds.