 | 1900 - 640 psl.
...imitate him. Drayton's estimate was and still is true and appreciative as well as descriptive : . . . 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... | |
 | Charles Frederick Johnson - 1900 - 566 psl.
...practice more than heavenly power permits." Michael Draytou, a contemporary poet, wrote of him : " Marlowe, bathed in the Thespian springs, Had in him those brave, translunary tilings That the first poets had. His raptures were All air and fire, which made his verses clear,... | |
 | Cuyler Reynolds - 1902 - 504 psl.
...LONGFEI.I.OW. For words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them. HOBBBS, The Leviathan. Had in him those brave translunary things that the first poets had. DRAYTON, To Henry Reynolds. The monarchist boasts more bayonets, the republican more books. CARNEGIE,... | |
 | 1903 - 1186 psl.
... BEEBELEY : On the Prospect of Planting Arts and Learning in America. MICHAEL DRAYTON. 1563-163L Had in him those brave translunary things That the first poets had. (Said of Marlowe. ) To Henry Eeynolde, of Poett and Povsy. For that fine madness still he did retain... | |
 | Thomas Seccombe, John William Allen - 1903 - 380 psl.
...by his early death. Dray ton in his Epistle to Henry Reynolds of 1627 has never been surpassed : ' Marlowe, bathed in the Thespian springs, Had in him...first poets had ; his raptures were All air and fire.' . . . BOOK II. PROSE. § 1. Introductory. § 2. Crities. § 3. Novelists. § 4. Satirists... | |
 | Thomas Seccombe - 1903 - 328 psl.
...lost by his early death. Drayton in his Epistle to Henry Reynolds of 1627 has never been surpassed : ' Marlowe, bathed in the Thespian springs, Had in him...translunary things That the first poets had ; his raptures went All air and fire.' . . . BOOK II. PROSE. 55 1. Introductory. § 2. Critics. § 3. Novelists.... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1903 - 536 psl.
...Drayton's lines on Marlowe in his poem "To my Friend Henry Reynolds, of Poets and Poesy " : Of Marlowe, bathed in the Thespian springs, Had in him...brave translunary things That the first poets had ... For that fine madness still he did retain Which rightly should possess a poet's brain. Page 133,... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb - 1903 - 542 psl.
...Marlowe in his poem "To my Friend Henry Reynolds, of Poets and Poesy" : Of Marlowe, batbed in ihe Thespian springs, Had in him those brave translunary things That the first poets had . . . For that fine madness still he did retain Which rightly should possess a poet's brain. Page 133,... | |
 | John Hawley Stotsenburg - 1904 - 556 psl.
...mighty line." It was Marlowe, as Drayton beautifully puts it, who " Bathed in the Thespian spring, Had in him those brave translunary things That the...were All air and fire, which made his verses clear." His leading motive, as Symonds says, was the love or lust of unattainable things. He deserves in every... | |
 | John H. Ingram - 1904 - 340 psl.
...above-quoted verses of Shakespeare, and show that Drayton knew to whom the words referred : ' 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 cleare ; For that fine madness still he did retaine, Which rightly... | |
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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... 
