...' proser,' in the language of our ancestors. Thus, Drayton writes of his contemporary Nashe : — " And surely Nashe, though he a proser were, A branch of laurel yet deserves to bear" — that is, the ornament, not of a ' proser,' but of a poet. The tacit assumption that vigor, animation,...

...' proser,' in the language of our ancestors. Thus, Drayton writes of his contemporary Nashe : — " And surely Nashe, though he a proser were, A branch of laurel yet deserves to bear" — that is, the ornament, not of a ' proser,' but of a poet. The tacit assumption that vigor, animation,...

...vital signs it had, was likely to live. Milton, Reason of Church Government, b. ii. And surely Nash, though he a proser were, A branch of laurel yet deserves to bear. Drayton, On Poets and Poesy. PRUNE. At present we only ' prune' trees; but our earlier authors use...

...Marlow, bathed in the Thespian sprine7s, Had in him those bravo translunary things That the first poets had : his raptures were All air and fire, which made...retain, Which rightly should possess a poet's brain. J Marlow is, by nearly universal admission, our greatest dramatic writer before Shakespeare. He is...

...Marlow, bathed in the Thespian springs, Had in him those bravo translunary things That the first poets had : his raptures were All air and fire, which made...did retain, Which rightly should possess a poet's hrain.J Marlow is, by nearly universal admission, our greatest dramatic writer before Shakespeare....

...Marlow, bathed in the Thespian springs, Had i" him those brave translunary things That tho first poets had : his raptures were All air and fire, which made his verses clear : For Ihat fine madness still he did retain, Which rightly should possess a pott's I8ain.J ' Marlow is, by...

...Marlow, 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...did retain, Which rightly should possess a poet's brain.t Marlow is, by nearly universal admission, our greatest dramatic writer before Shakespeare....

...Marlow, 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...did retain, Which rightly should possess a poet's brain.t Marlow is, by nearly universal admission, our greatest dramatic writer before Shakespeare....

...translunary things That the Erst poets had ; his raptures were All air and fire, which made his versea clear; For that fine madness still he did retain, Which rightly should possess a post's brain." " Faustas " is an excellent play, and has had a rare progeny, eg, Goethe's "Faust,"...

...To them 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 a poet's brain." Imagination was to him the great reality. The external, that winch makes the chief consciousness of...