The voices / 36 fragments

George Chapman

1557 AD — 1634 AD

Listed in the author section of Bartlett’s ninth-edition anthology, in the linked 1905 printing. Dates reflect that historical edition and may differ from modern scholarship.

Author and source reference ↗

▷ Play this voice Search within this voice ↗Place in time ↗nature love mind character knowledge death life wisdom

Historical source references

The Blind Beggar of Alexandria
An Humorous Day's Mirth
All Fools
Monsieur D'Olive
The Gentleman Usher
Bussy D'Ambois
Conspiracy of Charles, Duke of Byron
Tragedy of Charles, Duke of Byron
Revenge for Honour
Eastward Ho
Epilogue to Translations
Musæus of Hero and Leander
Counsel · anthology attribution: George Chapman
Page 530 · printed citation: George Chapman · subject: SEEING—SIGHT

Archive entries

01c. 1595 AD

None ever loved but at first sight they loved.

George Chapman / quote

↗

02c. 1595 AD

An ill weed grows apace.

George Chapman / quote

↗

03c. 1595 AD

Black is a pearl in a woman's eye.

George Chapman / quote

↗

04c. 1595 AD

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 / quote

↗

05c. 1595 AD

I tell thee Love is Nature's second sun, Causing a spring of virtues where he shines.

George Chapman / quote

↗

06c. 1595 AD

Cornelia. What flowers are these? Gazetta. The pansy this. Cor. Oh, that 's for lovers' thoughts.

George Chapman / quote

↗

07c. 1595 AD

Fortune, the great commandress of the world, Hath divers ways to advance her followers: To some she gives honour without deserving, To other some, deserving without honour.

George Chapman / quote

↗

08c. 1595 AD

Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.

George Chapman / quote

↗

09c. 1595 AD

Virtue is not malicious; wrong done her Is righted even when men grant they err.

George Chapman / quote

↗

10c. 1595 AD

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

George Chapman / quote

↗

11c. 1595 AD

Let no man value at a little price A virtuous woman's counsel; her wing'd spirit Is feather'd oftentimes with heavenly words.

George Chapman / quote

↗

12c. 1595 AD

To put a girdle round about the world.

George Chapman / quote

↗

13c. 1595 AD

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 / quote

↗

14c. 1595 AD

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 / quote

↗

15c. 1595 AD

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

George Chapman / quote

↗

16c. 1595 AD

Each natural agent works but to this end,— To render that it works on like itself.

George Chapman / quote

↗

17c. 1595 AD

'T is immortality to die aspiring, As if a man were taken quick to heaven.

George Chapman / quote

↗

18c. 1595 AD

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 / quote

↗

19c. 1595 AD

He is at no end of his actions blest Whose ends will make him greatest, and not best.

George Chapman / quote

↗

20c. 1595 AD

Words writ in waters.

George Chapman / quote

↗

21c. 1595 AD

They 're only truly great who are truly good.

George Chapman / quote

↗

22c. 1595 AD

Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee. Light gains make heavy purses. 'T is good to be merry and wise.

George Chapman / quote

↗

23c. 1595 AD

Make ducks and drakes with shillings.

George Chapman / quote

↗

24c. 1595 AD

Only a few industrious Scots perhaps, who indeed are dispersed over the face of the whole earth. But as for them, there are no greater friends to Englishmen and England, when they are out on 't, in the world, than they are. And for my own part, I would a hundred thousand of them were there [Virginia]; for we are all one countrymen now, ye know, and we should find ten times more comfort of them there than we do here.

George Chapman / quote

↗

George Chapman

Archive entries

Read further

Meditations

The Republic

Tao Te Ching