 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
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 594 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. Besides the dramatists thus far noticed, as the precursors of Shakspeare, we might mention Haughton,... | |
 | George Markham Tweddell - 1852 - 232 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.'' The ill-treatment of the unfortunate Qneen of Scots, who is still kept a close prisoner, moves a few... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 360 σελίδες
...ybur 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. " THOMAS NA6H. (1564-1600.) " And thou, into whose soul, if ever there were a Pythagorean metempsychosis,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1857 - 490 σελίδες
...poets and poetry, seems to have had this in his mind, when, speaking of Marlowe, he says : " That Jim madness still he did retain, Which rightly should possess a poet's brain." 2 That is, are made, composed, of mere imagination. VOL. II. 29 22 A local habitation, and a name.... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1861 - 626 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. J Marlow is, by nearly universal admission, our greatest dramatic writer before Shakespeare. He is... | |
 | Gail Hamilton - 1865 - 468 σελίδες
...gentle, lovable man. They felt the truth of his life. They saw that " Only that fine madness still ho did retain Which rightly should possess a poet's brain."...the chief consciousness of most men, was to him only staging, cumbersome and uncouth, but to be endured and made the most of. The world of the imagination... | |
 | Gail Hamilton - 1865 - 461 σελίδες
...he was a sweet, gentle, lovable man. They felt the truth of his life. They saw that " Only that fine madness still he did retain Which rightly should possess...Imagination was to him the great reality. The external, that winch makes the chief consciousness of most men, was to him only staging, cumbersome and uncouth, but... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1866 - 412 σελίδες
...your 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." To the list of dramatic poets, preceding Shakespeare, may be added the names of Chettle, Munday, and... | |
 | Thomas Cox (Poet.) - 1866 - 100 σελίδες
...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 ! — " DRAYTON. " MARLOWE so happy in his buskin'd muse — Alas ! unhappy in his life and end ! —... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1868 - 828 σελίδες
...thing is man ! To the Countess of Cumberland. Stanza 12. MICHAEL DRAYTON. 1563-1631. For that fine madness still he did retain, Which rightly should possess a poet's brain. (Of Marlowe.) To Henry Reynolds, of Pods and Poesy. 1 In his will, he directed the stone over his grave... | |
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