George Chapman Quotations
George Chapman (c. 1559 – May 12, 1634) was an English dramatist, translator and poet.
| This article on an author is a stub. You can help Wikiquote by expanding it. |
Sourced
- Poetry ,unlike oratory should not aim at clarity..but be dense with meaning,'something to be chewed and digested'
- Preface to Ovid's Banquet of Sense 1595
- O what is man Unless he be a Politician?
- Bussy d'Ambois, Act i, sc. 1. (1613)
The Shadow of Night - Hymnus in noctem
- Great Goddesse to whose throne in Cynthian fires,
This earthlie Alter endlesse fumes expires,
Therefore, in fumes of sighes and fires of griefe,
To fearefull chances thou sendst bold reliefe,
Happie, thrise happie, Type, and nurse of death,
Who breathlesse, feedes on nothing but our breath,
In whom must vertue and her issue liue,
Or dye for euer.
- Line 1
- Musicke, and moode, she loues, but loue she hates,
(As curious Ladies do, their publique cates)
This traine, with meteors, comets, lightenings,
The dreadfull presence of our Empresse sings:
Which grant for euer (ô eternall Night)
Till vertue flourish in the light of light.
- Line 398
- Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee. Light gains make heavy purses. 'Tis good to be merry and wise.
- Eastward Ho., Act I. Sc. I
External links
Wikipedia has an article about: George Chapman
|