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" 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... "
Michael Drayton; a Critical Study, with a Bibliography - Page 139
by Oliver Elton - 1905 - 216 pages
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Monthly Packet of Evening Readings for Members of the English Church ...

1888 - 614 pages
...well described in Drayton's fine passage — ' Next Marlowe, bathed in the Thespian springs, Had iu him those brave translunary things That the first poets had ; his raptures were A II ayro and fire, which made his verses dere ; For that fine marines still he did retaine, Which...
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English Poetry and Poets

Sarah Warner Brooks - 1890 - 520 pages
...been such as mortal never sang before ; for he had indeed — "... Bathed in the Thespian springs, And had in him those brave translunary things That the first poets had." And moreover, he was by. divine election a seer, — the poet of the hereafter, " the herald of the...
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From Chaucer to Tennyson: English Literature in Eight Chapters

Henry Augustin Beers - 1890 - 320 pages
...in thirty books and nearly one hundred thousand lines. It was Drayton who said of Marlowe, that he "had in him those brave translunary things that the first poets had ; " and there are brave things in Drayton, but they are only occasional passages, oases among dreary...
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Familiar Quotations: A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced ...

John Bartlett - 1891 - 1190 pages
...chinks that Timo has made. WALI.EH : Vei-ses iijxm Jits Itirlnc Pot fij. MICHAEL DKAYTON. 1563-1631. Had in him those brave translunary things That the first poets had. (Said of Marlowe.) To Henry Reynolds, of Poets and Poesy. For that fine madness still he did retain...
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The Works of James Russell Lowell, Volume 11

James Russell Lowell - 1892 - 380 pages
...loosened himself for a moment from the choking coils of his Polyolbion for a larger breath: — "Next Marlowe bathed in the Thespian springs Had in him those brave translunary tllings That the first poets had ; his raptures were All air and fire, which made his verses clear;...
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English Writers: An Attempt Towards a History of English Literature, Volume 10

Henry Morley - 1893 - 538 pages
...sweetness too, thus defined Marlowe's rare genius when a generation had passed since his death : " Next Marlowe, bathed in the Thespian springs, Had in him...which made his verses clear ; For that fine madness did he still retain Which rightly should possess a poet's brain. CHAPTER V. " KING RICHARD III." completes...
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Questions at Issue

Edmund Gosse - 1893 - 364 pages
...Browning. Of Marlowe, indeed, we can to this day write nothing better than Michael Drayton wrote : (Marlowe, bathed in the Thespian springs, Had in him those brave translunary things That our Jirst poets had ; hts raptures were All air and fire, which made his verses clear; For that Jine...
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The Poems of Shakespeare: With a Memoir

William Shakespeare - 1894 - 392 pages
...a happy variety of pause. The lines in which Drayton describes him have been often quoted : " 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, which made his verses clear ; For that fine...
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From Chaucer to Tennyson: With Twenty-nine Portraits and Selections from ...

Henry Augustin Beers - 1894 - 328 pages
...in thirty books and nearly one hundred thousand lines. It was Drayton who said of Marlowe, that he " had in him those brave translunary things that the first poets had ; " and there are brave things in Drayton, but they are only occasional passages, oases among dreary...
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It was Marlowe: A Story of the Secret of Three Centuries

Wilbur Gleason Zeigler - 1895 - 326 pages
...Gorgon," Gabriel Harvey, 1593. 23 "Dead Musaeus' gracious song." —Henry Chettle. 24 "Next Marlow, bathed in the Thespian springs, Had in him those brave...were All air and fire which made his verses clear." — Michael Drayton's Epistle, etc. 25 Ben Jonson's commendatory verses prefixed to the Folio Edition...
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