"The majesty and riches of the mind,
But dwell in darkness; for your God is blind." George Chapman (1559?-1634), British poet. A Coronet for His Mistress Philosophy (l. 13-14). . .
Sonnet, The; an Anthology. Robert M. Bender and Charles L. Squier, eds. (1987) Washington Square Press/Pocket Books. |
"I know an Englishman,
Being flattered, is a lamb; threatened, a lion." George Chapman c. 1559-1634, British dramatist, poet, translator. repr. In Plays and Poems of George Chapman: The Tragedies, ed. Thomas Marc Parrott (1910). Archbishop of Cologne, in Alphonsus, Emperor of Germany, act 1, sc. 2, l. 208-9 (1654).
on the proposal to make Richard, Earl of Cornwall, Holy Roman Emperor. The ascription of the play to Chapman has been questioned. |
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