...Drayton : " Next Marloe, bathed in Thespian springs, Had in him those brave translunary things That your first poets had; his raptures were All air and fire,...retain Which rightly should possess a poet's brain." To the most daring scepticism and licentiousness of principles, were added in him a fertile genius...

...Thespian springes, Had in him those braue translunary * thinges, That the first poets had: his raptvres were All air, and fire, which made his verses clear: For that fine madness still he did retaine Which rightly should possesse a poet's braine c . In the RETURN FROM PARNASSUS, a sort of critical...

...lines: " Next Marloe bath'd in Thespian springs, Had in him those brim-: translunary things, That your first poets had; his raptures were All air and fire,...retain, Which rightly should possess a poet's brain." Ben Jonson also speaks of " Marlow's mighty line." " His tragedies," says Warton, " manifest traces...

...lines: " Next Marloe bath'd in Thespian springs, Had in him those brave translunary things, That your first poets had; his raptures were All air and fire,...retain, Which rightly should possess a poet's brain." Ben Jonson also speaks of " Marlow's mighty line." " His tragedies," says Warton, " manifest traces...

..." Next 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,...retain Which rightly should possess a poet's brain." Judgments*, a zealous puritan, and an arch-dialectician, holds him up as a notable example of the danger...

...lines: " Next Mai-lex; bath'd in Thespian springs, Had in him those brave translunary things, That your first poets had; his raptures -were All air and fire,...still he did retain, Which rightly should possess a poefs braiD." Ben Jonson also speaks of " Marlow's mighty line." " His tragedies," says Warton, " manifest...

...Poets," give the clearest and most distinct notion of his powers and peculiarities. ———— " his raptures were All air and fire, which made his...still he did retain, Which rightly should possess a poet'« brain." I shall beg the reader to bear this description in mind during the remainder of this...

...bravo translunary things That your first poets had : his raptures wore All air and fire, which maJe his verses clear ; For that fine madness still he...retain Which rightly should possess a poet's brain." Judgments*, a zealous puritan, and an areh-dialectician, holds him up as a notable example of the danger...

...poets and poetry, seems to have had this in his mind, when, speaking of Marlowe, he says : ' That ./me madness still he did retain, Which rightly should possess a poet's brain.' A local habitation, and a name. Such tricks hath strong imagination; That, if it would but apprehend...

...are therein confined to four verses. “Neat MARLOW, bathed in the Thespian Had in bins 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...