 Next Marlowe, bathed in the Thespian springs, Had in him those brave translunary things That the first poets had ; his raptures were All air and fire, which made his verses clear ; For that fine madness still he did retain Which rightly should possess...  Thoreau, the Poet-naturalist: With Memorial Verses - Page 55by William Ellery Channing - 1902 - 396 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Robert Shiells, Theophilus Cibber - 1753 - 366 pages
...characterized. Next Marloe bathed in Thefpian fprings, Had in him thofe brave fublunary things, That your.firA poets had ; his raptures were All air and fire, which made his verfes clear ; For that fine madnefs ftill he did retain, .. Which rightly fhould poflefs a poet's... | |
 | 1780 - 428 pages
...Marlow, bathed in the Thefpian fprings, " Had in him thofe brave fublunary things, " That your firft poets had; his raptures were " All air and fire, which made his verfes clear : " For that fine madnefs ftill he did retain, " Which rightly fhould poflefs a poet's... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1805 - 392 pages
...tated by Drayton, in his Epistle to jf. Reynolds, on Poets and Poetry : describing Marlowe, he says : " that fine madness still he did retain, " Which rightly should possess a poet's brain." Malone. 9 constancy;] Consistency, stability, certainty. Johnson. Call Philostrate.2 Philos. Here,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1832 - 644 pages
...crowded on the daring imagination of the Greet : — as the fine lines of Drayton express it — ' Our Marlowe, bathed in the Thespian springs, Had in him...retain, Which rightly should possess a poet's brain :' — and if his vaulting ambition did overleap itself, 'and fall on the other side,' the contemporaries... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1810 - 618 pages
...in these termt : * " Next Marlow, bathed in the Thespian springs, Ilnd in him (hose brave sublunary things, That your first poets had ; his raptures were...retain, Which rightly should possess a poet's brain." And George Peele, in The Honour of the Garter, I /". 1593, or 99, mention* Aim in thit manner : " Unhappy... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 692 pages
...Marlow bathed in the Thespian springs, Had in him those brave translunary things, That the first poet* had, his raptures were, All air, and fire, which made...retain, Which rightly should possess a poet's brain. And surely Nashe, though he a proser were, A branch of laurel yet deserves to bear, Sharply satyric... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1810 - 618 pages
..." in these terms : " Next Marlow, bathed in the Thespian springs, Had in him those brave sublunary things, That your first poets had ; his raptures were...made his verses clear : For that fine madness still be did retain, Which rightly should possess a poet's brain." And George Peele, in The Honour of the... | |
 | David Erskine Baker - 1812 - 416 pages
...in him those brave translunary things " That your first poets had ; his raptures were " A4 airai.d fire, which made his verses clear ; " For that fine...retain, " Which rightly should possess a poet's brain." Mr. Marloe cams to an untimely end, falling a virrim to the ¡uost torturing passion of the human breast,... | |
 | David Erskine Baker - 1812 - 426 pages
...in him those brave transtunary things " That your first poets had ; his raptures were " AU air arid fire, which made his verses clear ; " For that fine...still he did retain, " Which rightly should possess a poet'» brain." Mr. Marloe came to an untimely end, falling a victim to the most torturing passion... | |
 | David Erskine Baker - 1812 - 430 pages
...following manner : " Next Marme, bathed in the Thespian springs, "Had in Mm those brave transluuary things " That your first poets had ; his raptures were " All air and fire, which made his v erses clear ; " For that fine madness #till he di d retain, ' " Which rightly should possess a ipoet's... | |
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