 | Robert Shiells, Theophilus Cibber - 1753 - 366 psl.
...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 psl.
...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 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 psl.
...crowded on the daring 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 things That your first poets had : his raptures were All air and fire, which made his verses clear ; For that fine... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1810 - 618 psl.
...: " Next Marlow, bathed in the Thespian springs, Had in him those brave sublunary things, That your first poets had ; his raptures were All air and fire,...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... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 692 psl.
...me With almost wonder, so fine, clear, and new, As yet they have been equalled by few. Ne^t 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 his verses clear, For that fine madness... | |
 | David Erskine Baker - 1812 - 430 psl.
..." Next Marme, bathed in the Thespian springs, "Had in Mm those brave transluuary things " That your first poets had ; his raptures were " All air and fire, which made his v erses clear ; " For that fine madness #till he di d retain, ' " Which rightly should possess a ipoet's... | |
 | David Erskine Baker - 1812 - 416 psl.
...called The Censure of the Poets, in which he speaks of him in the folio-wing manner : " Next Marine, bathed in the Thespian springs, " Had 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... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1815 - 512 psl.
...lines : " Next Marloe bathed in Thespian springs, Had in him those brave translunary things, That your first poets had ; his raptures were All air and fire,...which made his verses clear : For that fine madness stilj he did retain, Which rightly should possess a poet's brain." 1 Nichols's Bowyur with the... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1815 - 540 psl.
...lines : " Next Marloe bathed in Thespian springs, Had in him those brave translunary things, That your first poets had ; his raptures were All air and fire, which made his verses clear: For thut fine madness still he did return. Which rightly should possess a poet's brain." 1 Nichols's Bowyer... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - 1816 - 482 psl.
...than parallel." What! the " envious" Ben ? Impossible. Drayton thus characterises him : " Next Marlow, bathed in the Thespian springs, Had in him those brave...which made his verses clear ; For that fine madness he did still retain, Which rightly should possess a poet's brain.'* When, like Apollo, he came forth... | |
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