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
men done virtue
Virtue is not malicious; wrong done her Is righted even when men grant they err.
front goes race soon
As soon as you're here in front of those race cars, ... everything else kind of goes away.
difficult expected growth
Second-half growth is not expected to be as difficult to obtain.
spent
We've spent $300,000 and it doesn't look much different.
I am ashamed the law is such an ass.
advice british-statesman
Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least.
doth himself indeed king law offends
Who to himself is law, no law doth need, offends no law, and is a king indeed
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?
song courage voice
I will neither yield to the song of the siren nor the voice of the hyena, the tears of the crocodile nor the howling of the wolf.
ambition immortality dies
Tis immortality to die aspiring.
dream men wind
Man is a torch borne in the wind; a dream But of a shadow, summed with all his substance.
meaning-something oratory clarity
Poetry, unlike oratory, should not aim at clarity... but be dense with meaning, 'something to be chewed and digested'...
soul tragedy fiction
And for the authentical truth of either person or actions, who (worth the respecting) will expect it in a poem, whose subject is not truth, but things like truth? 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.
our-actions action worthy
We inherit nothing truly, but what our actions make us worthy of.