 | Robert Shiells, Theophilus Cibber - 1753 - 366 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 - 1788 - 460 Seiten
...Drayton in his Epistle to J. Reynolds on Poets and Poetry : describing Marlowe, he says : " that^ne madness still he did retain, «' Which rightly should possess a poet's brain!" MALONE. The powers of imagination were never more •philosophically or poetically expressed than by... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1805 - 392 Seiten
...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 Shakespeare - 1805 - 384 Seiten
...Drayton, in his Epistle to J. Reynolds, on Poets and Poetry ; describing Marlowe, he says : " that Jine madness still he did retain, " Which rightly should possess a poet's brain." Afalone. 9 constancy;] Consistency, stability, certainty, Johnson. i Wait on — ] The old copies have... | |
 | 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 Seiten
...Drayton express it — ' Our Marlowe, bathed in the Thespian springs, Had in him those brave translunary things That your first poets had : his raptures were...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
..." 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 Seiten
...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,... | |
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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... 
