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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... "
Poetry and Poets: A Collection of the Choicest Anecdotes Relative to the ... - Page 96
by Richard Ryan - 1826 - 292 pages
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Love's labour's lost. Midsummer night's dream

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...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare ...: With the Corrections and ..., Volume 2

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,...
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The plays of William Shakspeare, with the corrections and illustr ..., Volume 2

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...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 46

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...
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The Ancient British Drama ...

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...
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Drayton, WArner

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...
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Biographia Dramatica: pt. 2. Authors and actors: I-Y. Appendix. Additions ...

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,...
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Biographia Dramatica: pt.1. Authors and Actors: A-H

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...
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The General Biographical Dictionary:: Containing an Historical and Critical ...

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,...
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Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale, Volume 1

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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