 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
 | William Shakespeare - 1877 - 212 σελίδες
...notes that this seems to have been imitated by Drayton in his description of Marlowe : " that fine madness still he did retain, Which rightly should possess a poet's brain." 21, 22. These lines are enclosed in brackets by W. as probably an interpolation. Halliwell quotes Quarles... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1878 - 408 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... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1878 - 788 σελίδες
...Helicon; we therefore may suppose Those made not poets, but the poets those. SIR J. DKNHAM. For that fine madness still he did retain Which rightly should possess a poet's brain. DRAYTON: fefjoMon. (Of Afarlmoe.) ^TJI&*HV Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy,... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson - 1879 - 844 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." To the list of dramatic poets, preceding Shakespeare, may be added the names of Chettle, Munday, and... | |
 | Henry Austin Dobson - 1880 - 348 σελίδες
...the pre-Shakesperian writers, and ' the true founder of the dramatic school ; ' — * ' For that fine madness still he did retain Which rightly should possess a poet's brain.' (Drayton.) ' In delineating character, he reaches a degree of truth to which they [the predecessors... | |
 | 1881 - 504 σελίδες
...and equality — • " 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." Mr. Arnold's ideal is very different. Of broad thoughtful brow and calm unimpassioned demeanour, he... | |
 | 1881 - 654 σελίδες
...fraternity, and equality — " 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." Mr. Arnold's ideal is very different. Of broad thoughtful brow and calm unimpassioned" demeanour, he... | |
 | James Baldwin - 1882 - 632 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."* John Lyly, better known as the author of Eupkues, was a dramatist of some ability. His plays for the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1883 - 496 σελίδες
...poets and poetry, seems to have had this in his mind, when, speaking of Marlowe, he says : " That Jmt madness still he did retain, Which rightly should possess a poet's brain." * That is. are made, composed, of mere imagination. A local habitation, and a name. Such tricks hath... | |
 | Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 σελίδες
...things, That the first poets had. (Of Marlowe.) To Henry Reynold*, of Poett and Potsy. For that fine madness still he did retain, Which rightly should possess a poet's brain. ibid. BISHOP HALL. 1574-1G5G. Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all... | |
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