...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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;...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...