| William Shakespeare - 1788 - 460 pages
...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 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 Shakespeare - 1805 - 384 pages
...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 - English literature - 1832 - 644 pages
...imagination of the Greet : — as the fine lines of Drayton express it — ' Our Marlowe, bathed in the Thespian springs, Had in him those brave translunary...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 - English drama - 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 - English poetry - 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... | |
| David Erskine Baker - English drama - 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 - Dramatists, English - 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... | |
| Biography - 1815 - 542 pages
...Poets," in these lines; " Next Marloe bathed in Thespian springs, Had in him those brave transhtnary things, That your first poets had; his raptures were...retain, Which rightly should possess a poet's brain." 1 Nichols's Bowyer—with the Addition of tome MS particulars and judicious remarks by James H. Markland,... | |
| William Shakespeare - English drama (Comedy) - 1872 - 480 pages
..." 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,...retain Which rightly should possess a poet's brain." Before leaving the subject, I must notice a remark by Charles Lamb, — the dear, delightful Charley.... | |
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