 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1825 - 504 pages
...merit. It is more correct, with less appearance of labour, and more elegant, with less ambition of ornament, than any other of his poems. There is, however,...notice may properly be taken : Fir'd with that name — 1 bridle in my struggling muse with pain, That longs to launch into a nobler strain. To bridle... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 512 pages
...merit. It is more correct, with less appearance of labour, and more elegant, with less ambition of ornament, than any other of his poems. There is, however,...notice may properly be taken : Fir'd with that name — 1 bridle in my struggling muse with pain, That longs to launch into a nobler strain. To bridle... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1826 - 430 pages
...merit. It is more correct, with less appearance of labour, and more elegant, with less amhition of ornament, than any other of his poems. There is, however,...broken metaphor, of which notice may properly be taken : — Flr'd with that name— I bridle la my Btrnggling Muse with pain, That longs to launch into a... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1828 - 268 pages
...dissimulation:" as a mask conceals, but does not shelter. Addison, in his letter from Italy, says: I bridle in my struggling muse with pain, That longs to launch into a bolder strain. The muse, figured as a horse, may be bridled; but when we speak of launching, we make... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 436 pages
...bit. The queen of beauty stopped her bridled doves ; Approved the_little labour of the Loves. Prior. I bridle in my struggling muse with pain, That longs to launch into a bolder slraiu. AditiKm. 'A. bright genius often betrays itself into many enoun, without a continual... | |
 | Hugh Blair, Abraham Mills - English language - 1832 - 372 pages
...metaphors. It is surprising that the following should have escaped Mr. Addison, m his letter from Italy: I bridle in my struggling muse with pain, That longs to launch into a bolder strain. The muse, figured as a horse, may be bridled ; but when we speak of launching, we make... | |
 | Hugh Blair - Rhetoric - 1833 - 654 pages
...too; which forms such a confused picture, that it is impossible for any imagination to comprehend it. I bridle in my struggling muse with pain, That longs to launch into a bolder strain.* The muse, figured as a horse, may be bridled; but when we speak of launching, we make... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1834 - 728 pages
...its merit. It s more correct, with less appearance of labour, and more elegant, with less ambition of ornament, than any other of his poems. There is, however,...longs to launch into a nobler strain. To bridle a goddeai is no very delicate idea ; but why must she be bridled ? because she langt to launch ; an act... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1834 - 366 pages
...dissimulation :" as a mask conceals, but does not shelter. Addison, in his letter from Italy, says: I bridle in my struggling muse with pain, That longs to launch into a bolder strain. The muse, figured as a horse, may be bridled ; but when we speak of launching, we make... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1835 - 268 pages
...dissimulation :" as a mask conceals, but does not shelter. Addison, in nil letter from Italy, says : I bridle in my struggling muse with pain, That longs to launch into a bolder strain. The muse, figured as a horse, may be bridled; but when we speak of launching, we make... | |
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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. 
