...— " 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." So Drummond's sonnet, " Icarus," pleased him with its stirring line: — "For still the shore my brave...

...Marlowe bathed in the Thespian springs Had in him those brave translunary things That your first I¿oets had: his raptures were All air and fire, which made...retain Which rightly should possess a poet's brain.” So Drummond's sonnet, “Icarus,” pleased him with its stirring line: — “For still the shore...

...in the Thespian springs Had in him those brave translunary things That your first poets had : liis raptures were All air and fire, which made his verses...retain Which rightly should possess a poet's brain." So Drummond's sonnet, " Icarus," pleased him with its stirring line : — "For still the shore my brave...

...the greatest of the pre-Shakesperiau writers, and ' the true founder of the dramatic school;'—* ' For that fine madness still he did retain Which rightly should possess the poet's brain.' (Drayton.) ' In delineating character, he reaches a degree of truth to which they...

...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*. 300. b. Nor docs it always appear at the end...

...stream Of Helicon; we therefore may suppose Those made not poets, but the poets those. StR J. DENHAM. For that fine madness still he did retain Which rightly should possess a poet's brain. DRAYTON: Polyolbion. (Of Marlowe.I Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England...

...fellow-dramatist, Michael Drayton : Next Marlowe, bathed in the Thespian springs, Had in him those brave e In bulk, doth make man better be, Or standing long...far, in May, Although it fall and die that night, The great success of Marlowe's plays, and the popularity of Alleyn, the principal actor in them, must...

...own body-guard. Drayton sings : Next Marlow, bathed in the Thespian springs, Had in him those brave translunary things That the first poets had, his raptures...retain, Which rightly should possess a poet's brain. Robert Daborne is chiefly interesting to us from his connection in misfortunes and dramatic labours...

...the greatest of 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...

...wild musical words in praise of the eternal truths of liberty, fraternity, and equality“His iaptures were All air and fire, which made his verses clear,...retain Which rightly should possess a poet's brain.” Mr. Arnold's ideal is very different. Of broad thoughtful brow and calm unimpassione& demeanour, he...