 To bridle a goddess is no very delicate idea; but why must she be bridled? because she longs to launch ? an act which was never hindered by a bridle: and whither will she launch? into a nobler strain.  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Stran 961821Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 714 strani
...is, however/one broken metaphor, of which \noticen pioperly be taken : Fir'd with that I bridle in my struggling Muse with pain, That longs to launch into a nobler strain. , To bridle a geddtss is no very delicate idea ; bat why must she be iridfa becaqse she fangs to launch... | |
 | John Young - 1810 - 432 strani
...horsemanship, and watery motion, as 58 CRITICISM | Addison has done in the following couplet : I bridle in my struggling muse with pain, That longs to launch into a nobler strain. Of the melancholy truth, that great parts are often kept from expansion, by the influence of poverty... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 378 strani
...one broken metaphor, of which notice may properly be taken : Fii-'d with that name — 1 bridle in my struggling Muse with pain, That longs to launch into a nobler strain. * Spence. To bridle a goddess is no very delicate idea ; but why jmust she be bridled ? because she... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 504 strani
...one broken metaphor, of which notice may properly be taken : Fir'd with that name — I bridle in my struggling Muse with pain, That longs to launch into a nobler strain. To bridle a goddess is no very delicate idea ; but why must she be bridled? because she longs to launch;... | |
 | 1827 - 798 strani
...twigs and leaves, in the fairest of God's creatures, but an assemblage of bones, sinews, and veins ? But we bridle in our struggling muse with pain. That longs to launch into a nobler strain. The voyage of Alciphron and Alcthe is now at an end. They land — and there is an immediate transition... | |
 | 1844 - 826 strani
...aunals of queenly hospitality. But we must descend to the world again ; we must, as the poet said, " Bridle in our struggling muse with pain, That longs to launch into a nobler strain." We bid farewell to a description of the indescribable. During this week, but one question was asked... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 416 strani
...metaphor, of which- notice may properly be taken : — — — Fir'd with that name— I bridle in my struggling Muse with pain, That longs to launch into a nobler strain. To bridle a goddess is no very delicate idea ; but why must she be bridled'? because she longs to launch... | |
 | John Jebb - 1820 - 502 strani
...I alItrde to the well-known, and, as I think, unjustlyridiculed couplet of Addison: I bridle in my struggling muse with pain, That longs to launch into a nobler strain. The truth is, that, without resorting to Mr. Dugalcl Stewart's able apology for mixed or broken metaphors,... | |
 | 1821 - 778 strani
...drudgery, doomed to dwindle, year after year, into unfeed peripateticism in the outer-house, without " One brief memorial, still erected nigh." But, " We bridle...of the Edinburgh youth, but an occasional grunt of delight from that pig-eyed Speculator, or the crack of a rotten filbert which some student, during... | |
 | 1821 - 720 strani
...year after year, into unfeed peripateticism in the outer-house, without " One brief memorial, etill erected nigh." But, " We bridle in our struggling muse with pain. That longe to launch into a nobler sir,, in." and leave the imagination of our readers to bring before them... | |
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