...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 brain." And Chapman, taking up and continuing Marlowe's half-told story of Hero and Leander, breaks forth suddenly...

...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 brain." And Chapman, taking up and continuing Marlowe's half-told story of Hero and Leander, breaks forth suddenly...

...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 brain. Hevwood, in his ' Hierarchie of the Blessed Angels,' 1635 (bk. iv.), wrote less effectively : — Mario,...

...3. For suffering and enduring there is no remedy but striving and doing. Carlylc. 10 For that fine rès honnêtes gens— Men who are knaves D ray Urn. For the apotheosis of Reason we have substituted that of Instinct ; and we call everything...

...your 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 brain." To the list of dramatic poets, preceding Shakespeare, may be added the names of Chettle, Munday, and...

...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 brain. And surely Nash, though he a proser were, Nash. A branch of laurel yet deserves to bear; Sharply satiric...

...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 brain. DRAYTON : Elegies of Poets and Poesy Marlowe, renown'd for his rare art and wit, . . T. HEYWOOD : The...

...your 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 brain. Item: the students of Oxford — Marlowe was happy in his buskind muse, Alas unhappy in his life and...

...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 brain. In our own day Marlowe is greatly honoured by all true lovers of poetry. Mr. Swinburne eloquently says...

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