...PIIILUPS. 11 Next Marloe, bathed in Thespian Rpringt, Had In him those translnnary things That your first poets had : his raptures were All air and fire, which made his verses clear: For that fine marines still he did retain Which rightly should [«»-,-• n poet's brain." Drayton's tonsure of...

...sentences, there is much both in this and Faustus to justify the fine enthusiasm of Michael Drayton : "Neil, Marlowe, bathed in the Thespian springs, Had in him...That the first poets had : his raptures were All air ami fire, which made his verses clear; For that fine madness still he did retain, Which rightly should...

...me With almost wonder ; so fine, cleere and new, As yet they have bin equalled by few. Next1 Marlow, bathed in the Thespian springs, Had in him those brave...things That the first Poets had ; his raptures were All ayre and fire, which made his verses cleere ; For that fine madnes still he did retaine Which rightly...

...Drayton : "Next, Marlowe, bathed in the Thespian springs, Had in him those brave Iranslunary things Thai the first poets had : his raptures were All air and fire, which made bis verses clear; For that fine madness Mill he did retain, Which rightly should possess a poet's brain."...

...himself, how poor a thing is man ! To the Gauntest of Cumberland. Stanza 12. MICHAEL DRAYTON. 1563-1631. Had in him those brave translunary things, That the first poets had. (Of Marlowe.) To Henry Reynold*, of Poett and Potsy. For that fine madness still he did retain, Which...

...of his brother playwrights. His genius and temper have been admirably described by Drayton : 1 Next Marlowe, bathed in the Thespian springs, Had in him...things That the first poets had ; his raptures were All ayre and fire which made his verses clear, For that fine madness still he did retain Which rightly...

...germs such as those that gave us a Shakespeare, for having in him, as Drayton has grandly said — " Those brave translunary things That the first poets had ; his raptures were All iir and fire, which mado his yersea clear j For that fine madness still he did retain Which rightly...

...in thirty books and nearly one hundred thousand lines. It was Drayton who said of Marlowe, that he " had in him those brave translunary things that the first poets had ; " arid there are brave things in Drayton, but they are only occasional passages, oases among dreary...

...sentences, there is much both in this and Faustus to justify the fine enthusiasm of Michael Drayton : "Next, Marlowe, bathed in the Thespian springs, Had in him...things That the first poets had : his raptures were Alt air and fire, which made his verses clear •, For that fine madness still he did retain. Which...

...dear unto us, living an after-life in our memory ; " Drayton's wellinspired lines are familiar : — "Marlowe, bathed in the Thespian springs, Had in him those brave translunary things That our first poets had : his raptures were All air and fire, which made his verses clear : For that fine...