 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 a poet's...  The New Monthly Belle Assemblée - Σελίδα 28Πλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 σελίδες
...nature. ISAAC D 'ISRAELI — Literary Character of Men of Genius. Vers de Societe. 5 For that fine madness still he did retain, Which rightly should possess a poet's brain. DRAYTON — To Henry Reynolds. Of Poets and Poesy. L. 109. (See also DBYDEN under INSANITY) 6 Happy... | |
 | George Goodchild - 1922 - 264 σελίδες
...Poets. That fine madness. See Drayton's Of Poets and Poesy. He is writing of Marlowe: — " That fine madness still he did retain, Which rightly should possess a poet's brain." The whole passage is well worth reading. Faithful Shepherdess. I. iii. 27-44. The author is John Fletcher... | |
 | Ernest Rhys - 1922 - 270 σελίδες
...was possessed by his art, rather than as one who, like Shakespeare, held it in possession. That fine madness still he did retain, Which rightly should possess a poet's brain. So wrote Dray ton; and according to Chapman's fine hyperbole he Stood Up to the chin in the Pierian... | |
 | William Thomas Young - 1923 - 328 σελίδες
...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 a poet's brain. And surely Naske, though he a proser were, A branch of laurel yet deserves to bear, Sharply satiric... | |
 | Norbert Hardy Wallis - 1924 - 244 σελίδες
...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 a poet's brain ".3 " A poet's brain " — this is indeed true of Marlowe, who was a poet by nature and a dramatist... | |
 | Arthur Henry Bullen - 1924 - 312 σελίδες
...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 a Poet's brain." His description of Thomas Nashe, the brilliant satirist, is most apt and happy. "... though he a Proser... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1925 - 412 σελίδες
...rhyme nor reason. Lints mi ni* front /><•</ Pension. SPENSER. CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE. For that fine madness still he did retain, Which rightly should possess a poet's brain. To Htnry Kiynalds . Of Pern and Poesy. M. DRAYTON LORD BACON. If parts allure thce, think how Bacon... | |
 | George Reuben Potter - 1928 - 640 σελίδες
...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 a poet's brain. And surely Nashe, though he a proser were, A branch of laurel yet deserves to bear. Sharply satiric... | |
 | 1900 - 546 σελίδες
...greater as a poet than as a dramatist. . . .his raptures were All air and fire . . . ; For that fine madness still he did retain Which rightly should possess a poet's brain. He left but a single step to be taken in the full unfolding of the drama, and that step Shakespeare... | |
 | 1864 - 804 σελίδες
...gentle, lovable man. They felt the truth of his life. They saw that " Only that fine madness still be did retain Which rightly should possess a poet's brain."...the chief consciousness of most men, was to him only staging, an incumbrancc, and uncouth, but to be endured and made the most of. The world of the imagination... | |
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