 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
 | Christopher Marlowe - 1826 - 1070 pages
...bathed in the Thespian springs, Had in him those brave translunary things That your first poets hat!: his raptures were All air and fire, which made his...retain Which rightly should possess a poet's brain." s", a zealous puritan, and an arch-dialectician, holds him up as a notable example of the danger of... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1826 - 438 pages
...Reynolds on poets and poetry, seems to have had this in his mind, when, speaking of Marlowe, he says : ' That fine madness still he did retain, Which rightly should possess a poet's brain.' * ie are made of mere imagination. A local habitation, and a name. Such tricks hath strong imagination... | |
 | 1829 - 712 pages
...verses. " Neat MARLOW, bathed in the Thespian iprinn, Had in him tlmse brave translunary thingi, That the first Poets had ; his raptures were All air and fire,...retain, Which rightly should possess a Poet's brain." " And surely NASHE, though be a 1': >•„-. were, A branch of laurel yet deserves to bear ; Sharply... | |
 | 1829 - 738 pages
...bathed in the Thespian springs, Had in him those brave translunary things, That the first Poets hail ; 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... | |
 | 1829 - 720 pages
...Had In hire those brave translunary things, That the first Poets had ; his raptures were All air aud fire, — which made his verses clear, For that fine...retain, Which rightly should possess a Poet's brain." " And surely NASUE, though he a Proser were, A branch of laurel yet deserve* to bear ; Sharply satyric... | |
 | 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 - 650 pages
...crowded on the daring imagination of the Greek : — as the tine lines 01 Drayton express it — 4 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... | |
 | 1885 - 614 pages
...brave translunary things That the first poets had ; his raptures were All ayre and fire which made bis verses clear, For that fine madness still he did retain Which rightly should possess a poet's brain.' It was in this translunary sphere that he found his characters ; it was under the inspiration of this... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1838 - 790 pages
...translunar}' things. That your first poets had ; Ilia raptures were All air and fire, which made his vence Z% P c 4G>}T.}ԖOʙ' n ~ X a 1M $ e W 1 a n k } ) M ş ," Wn @ v 7 The phrase, fine madness, very aptly eiprcsses the character of his genius. In The Tragical History... | |
 | Thomas Warton - 1840 - 550 pages
...Thespian springes, Had in him those braue translunary8 thinges, That the first poets had : his raptvres were All air, and fire, which made his verses clear: For that fine madness still he did retaine Which rightly should possesse a poet's braine'. In the RETURN FROM PARNASSUS, a sort of critical... | |
 | Thomas Warton - 1840 - 572 pages
...Thespian springes, Had in him those braue translunary" thinges, That the first poets had : his raptvres were All air, and fire, which made his verses clear : For that fine madness still he did retaine Which rightly should possesse a poet's braine'. In the RETURN FROM PARNASSUS, a sort of critical... | |
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