...mighty line." It was Marlowe, as Drayton beautifully puts it, who " Bathed in the Thespian spring, Had in him those brave translunary things That the...were All air and fire, which made his verses clear." His leading motive, as Symonds says, was the love or lust of unattainable things. He deserves in every...

...above-quoted verses of Shakespeare, and show that Drayton knew to whom the words referred : ' Next Marlowe, bathed in the Thespian springs, Had in him those brave...things That the first poets had ; his raptures were All ayre and fire, which made his verses cleare ; For that fine madness still he did retaine, Which rightly...

...tragedies forming a fairly definite type, but also as that of an inspiring personality. "Next Marlowe, bathed in the Thespian springs, Had in him those brave...raptures were All air and fire, which made his verses clere; For that fine madnes still he did retaine, Which rightly should possess a poet's braine." DRAYTON...

...me With almost wonder, so fine, cleere, and new, As yet they have hin equalled by few. Neat Mario w bathed in the Thespian springs Had in him those brave...things, That the first Poets had, his raptures were, All ayre, and fire, which made his verses cleere, For that flne madness still he did retaine, Which righlly...

...was doubtless inspired by "The Merchant of Venice." "TiiE RICH JEW OF MALTA." Christopher Marlowe, "Bathed in the Thespian Springs, Had in him those...brave translunary things That the first poets had." It is a thousand pities that he, like his greater brother, should have given over that "fine madness...

..."up to the chin in the Pierian flood" ; and Drayton paid him this exquisite tribute : Next Marlowe, bathed in the Thespian springs, Had in him those brave...things That the first poets had ; his raptures were All ayre and fire, which made his verses cleere, For that fine madness still he did retaine Which rightly...

...finer tribute was paid him than that given by Michael Drayton, in Epistles of Poets and Neat* Marlowe, bathed in the Thespian springs Had in him those brave translunary things That the fine poets had : his raptures were All air and fire which made his verses clear ; For that fair madness...

...that " All power of fancy over reason is a degree of insanity," * we need to be reminded how Marlowe " Had in him those brave translunary things That the first poets had, his raptures were All ayre and fire, which made his verses cleere ; For that fine madness still he did retaine Which rightly...

...hailed him a morning star of song ; Peele calls him the "muse'p darling," and Dray ton tells us that "his raptures were all air and fire, which made his verses clear." We may write across his tombstone his epilogue to Dr. Faustus : " Cut is the branch that might have...

...Next Percy Jones, bathed in the Thespian Springs, Had in him those brave sublunary Things That your first Poets had ; his Raptures were All Air and Fire, which made his Verses clear; For that fierce Madness still he did retain, Which rightly should possess a Poet's Brain. 1 So in Vlacl-.iivi...