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(1563–1631) 355Had in him those brave translunary things

Quotations 1919

(1563–1631) 1Had in him those brave translunary things

Quotations 1919

QUOTATION: Had in him those brave translunary things

Quotations 1919

The day Emerson wrote Bacchus he had in him, as Michael Drayton said of Marlowe, "those brave translunary things that the first poets had."

Ponkapog Papers. 1904

You know the old recipe for Wine of Cos, that full-bodied, seignorial, superlative, translunary wine.

The Mayor of Troy Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

An inclusion of nearly all the effective lyrics of Poe, and of enough of Emerson to show his translunary spirit at full height, still left each of these antipodal bards within smaller confines than are given to Longfellow, —the people’s “artist of the beautiful” through half a century of steadfast production, or to Whittier—the born balladist, whose manner and purport could not be set forth compactly.

0 Introduction. Stedman, Edmund Clarence, ed. 1900. An American Anthology, 1787-1900 Edmund Clarence Stedman 1900

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 wastes of sand.

From Chaucer to Tennyson 1886

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 {98} things in Drayton, but they are only occasional passages, oases among dreary wastes of sand.

Brief History of English and American Literature 1886

Drayton said of Marlowe, "those brave translunary things that the first poets had."

Ponkapog Papers Thomas Bailey Aldrich 1871

Man, in his earth life, cannot always be "high contemplative", and indulge in "brave translunary things"; he must welcome again, it must be confessed, "land the solid and safe".

An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry Hiram Corson 1869