...Marlowe. greatest scholar and poet, speaks of him in the following lines of singular beauty :— " Next Marlowe, bathed in the Thespian springs Had in him...verses clear For that fine madness still he did retain rightly should possess a poet's brain." Ben Jonson refers to " Marlowe's mighty line" and some other...

...series of tragedies forming a fairly definite type, but also as that of an inspiring personality. "Next Marlowe, bathed in the Thespian springs, Had in him...raptures were All air and fire, which made his verses clere; For that fine madnes still he did retaine, Which rightly should possess a poet's braine." DRAYTON...

...me With almost wonder, so fine, cleere, and new, As yet they have hin equalled by few. Neat Mario w 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 flne madness still he did retaine, Which righlly...

...1596, and was doubtless inspired by "The Merchant of Venice." "TiiE RICH JEW OF MALTA." Christopher Marlowe, "Bathed in the Thespian Springs, Had in him...brave translunary things That the first poets had." It is a thousand pities that he, like his greater brother, should have given over that "fine madness...

...standing "up to the chin in the Pierian flood" ; and Drayton paid him this exquisite tribute : 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 cleere, For that fine madness still he did retaine Which rightly...

...chosen. No finer tribute was paid him than that given by Michael Drayton, in Epistles of Poets and Neat* Marlowe, bathed in the Thespian springs Had in him those brave translunary things That the fine poets had : his raptures were All air and fire which made his verses clear ; For that fair madness...

...that " All power of fancy over reason is a degree of insanity," * we need to be reminded how Marlowe " Had in him those brave translunary things That the first poets had, his raptures were All ayre and fire, which made his verses cleere ; For that fine madness still he did retaine Which rightly...

...hailed him a morning star of song ; Peele calls him the "muse'p darling," and Dray ton tells us that "his raptures were all air and fire, which made his verses clear." We may write across his tombstone his epilogue to Dr. Faustus : " Cut is the branch that might have...

...Next Percy Jones, bathed in the Thespian Springs, Had in him those brave sublunary Things That your first Poets had ; his Raptures were All Air and Fire, which made his Verses clear; For that fierce Madness still he did retain, Which rightly should possess a Poet's Brain. 1 So in Vlacl-.iivi...

...resulting in those passages which seem to have been in Drayton's mind when he wrote of the dramatist thus: Marlowe bathed in the Thespian springs Had in him...brave, translunary things That the first poets had. Of this character is the celebrated line which Barabas addresses to Abagail on the balcony: "But stay,...