Michael Drayton citations

Michael Drayton est un poète anglais né en 1563 à Hartshill, près d'Atherstone dans le Warwickshire, et mort le 23 décembre 1631 à Londres. Wikipedia  

✵ 1563 – 23. décembre 1631
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Michael Drayton: Citations en anglais

“Victor I will remain
Or on this earth lie slain,
Never shall she sustain
Loss to redeem me.”

Michael Drayton

Source: To the Cambro-Britons and Their Harp, his Ballad of Agincourt (1627), Lines 37-40.

“Oh, when shall English men
With such acts fill a pen,
Or England breed again
Such a King Harry?”

Michael Drayton

Source: To the Cambro-Britons and Their Harp, his Ballad of Agincourt (1627), Lines 117-120.

“Had in him those brave translunary things
That the first poets had.”

Michael Drayton

To Henry Reynolds, of Poets and Poesy (1627), referring to Christopher Marlowe.

“Yet have we well begun,
Battles so bravely won
Have ever to the sun
By fame been raisëd.”

Michael Drayton

Source: To the Cambro-Britons and Their Harp, his Ballad of Agincourt (1627), Lines 29-32.

“The coast was clear.”

Michael Drayton

Nimphidia, the Court of Faery (1627).