 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 482 pages
...appearance of labour, and more elegant, with less ambition of ornament, than any other of his poems.106 There is, however, one broken metaphor, of which 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 a goddess... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - Italy - 1854 - 486 pages
...* Fired with the name which I so oft have found, The distant climes and different tongues resound, I bridle in my struggling Muse with pain That longs to launch into a bolder strain.' The poet much mistook the character of his muse, which was any thing but 'struggling'... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - Italy - 1854 - 480 pages
...' Fired with the name which I so oft have found, The distant climes and different tongues resound, I bridle in my struggling Muse with pain That longs to launch into a bolder strain.' The poet much mistook the character of his muse, which was any thing but ' struggling'... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1856 - 474 pages
...Fired with the name which I so oft have found The different* climes and different tongues resound, I bridle in my struggling muse with pain, That longs to launch into a bolder strain ; But spent already with a rhyme so3 long, I dare not tempt^ a more adventurous song;... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - 1857 - 416 pages
...whatever between worshipping and rowing ; and " to pull the oar of an idol" is a palpable absurdity. " I bridle in my struggling Muse with pain That longs to launch into a bolder strain." Dr. Johnson, in his " Life of Addison," criticising these lines, says : " To bridle... | |
 | George Payn Quackenbos - English language - 1857 - 470 pages
...imagination, and are to be strictly guarded against. Thus Addison, in his " Letter from Italy," says, " I bridle in my struggling muse with pain, That longs to launch into a bolder strain." He first makes his muse a horse which may be bridled, then a ship which may be launched.... | |
 | William Hunter (rector of Ayr acad.) - 1857 - 128 pages
...following metaphors ? To thee the world its present homage pays, The harvest early but mature the praise, ' I bridle in my struggling muse with pain, That longs to launch into a bolder strain. Walk thoughtful on the silent, solemn shore Of that vast ocean it must sail so soon... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1858 - 418 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,...one broken metaphor, of which notice may properly' betaken: — What is this but to say, that he who could compliment Cromwell had been the proper poet... | |
 | Joseph Addison, John Gay, George Gilfillan - English poetry - 1859 - 428 pages
...Fired with the name, which I so oft have found The distant climes and different tongues resound, ieo I bridle in my struggling Muse with pain, That longs to launch into a bolder strain. But I 've already troubled you too long, Nor dare attempt a more adventurous song. My... | |
 | James Alexander McMullen - 1860 - 170 pages
...simile becomes a metaphor; as, Her hair was golden threads. Mixed metaphors are very inelegant — I bridle in my struggling muse with pain That longs to launch into a nobler strain. The muse is represented as a goddess, but here in the first line She is bridled; in the next wishes... | |
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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. 
