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George Chapman

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Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least.


— George Chapman


#always #least #like #most #seldom

Flatterers look like friends, as wolves like dogs.


— George Chapman


#flatterers #friends #like #look #wolves

I am ashamed the law is such an ass.


— George Chapman


#ashamed #ass #i #i am #law

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


— George Chapman


#know #men #old #old men #think

An Englishman, being flattered, is a lamb; threatened, a lion.


— George Chapman


#englishman #flattered #lamb #lion #threatened

And let a scholar all earth's volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate clock.


— George Chapman


#carry #clock #dictionary #earth #mere

Be free all worthy spirits, and stretch yourselves, for greatness and for height.


— George Chapman


#greatness #height #spirits #stretch #worthy

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


— George Chapman


#doth #drive #expel #heat #know

He that shuns trifles must shun the world.


— George Chapman


#shun #shuns #trifles #world

Ignorance is the mother of admiration.


— George Chapman


#ignorance #mother






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Eastward Ho (1605) written with Jonson and John Marston contained satirical. Chapman is best remembered for his translations of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey and the Homeric Batrachomyomachia. His plays show a willingness to experiment with dramatic form: An Humorous Day's Mirth was one of the first plays to be written in the style of 'humours comedy' which Ben Jonson later used in Every Man in his Humour and Every Man Out of his Humour.

He was a classical scholar whose work shows the influence of Stoicism. 1559 – 12 May 1634) was an English dramatist translator and poet.

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