 sometimes fall into this error of mixing metaphors. It is surprising how the following inaccuracy should have escaped Mr. Addison in his letter from Italy : I bridle in my struggling muse with pain. That longs to launch into a bolder strain.* The muse,...  Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres - Page 192by Hugh Blair - 1839 - 679 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1800 - 572 pages
...Dr. Johnson with such just severity, that Mr. Murphy is .warranted in having wholly omitted them: *' I bridle in my struggling muse with pain, That longs to launch into a bolder strain." P. 44. We shall only farther remark that, in our opinion, the admirers of modern Latin poetry will... | |
 | Books - 1800 - 574 pages
...Dr. Johnson with such just severity, that Mr. Murphy is warranted in having wholly omitted them: " I bridle in my struggling muse with pain,' That longs to launch into a bolder strain." P. 44. Ílation for E.irl ; and ad Comilem dc Halifax would certainly have read much better than the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 714 pages
...There is, however/ one broken metaphor, of which \notii properly be taken : Fir'd with that earner— I bridle in my struggling Muse with pain, That longs to launch into a nobler strain. To bridle a gvidns is no very delicate idea ; but why must she be It because she longs... | |
 | William Owen Pughe - English language - 1803 - 212 pages
...praxis upon the VOWELS is subjoined, in order to exhibit some English words, in the Welsh orthography: ' I bridle in my struggling muse with pain, That longs to launch into a bolder strain.' yi bryidl in myi stryggling miws wuth paen, Zat longs tw lansh intw a bolder straen. • ' ' To thee... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1805 - 350 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...The muse, figured as a horse, may be bridled ; but whet* we speak of launching, we make it a ship ; and by no force of imagination, can it be supposed... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1807 - 290 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 same author, elsev here, says, " There is not a si gle view of human nature, which is not sufficient... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1808 - 526 pages
...as a mask conceals, but does not shelter. Addison in his letter from Italy, says: I bridle in rrty struggling muse with pain, That longs to launch into...as a horse, may be bridled ; but when we speak of launching, we make it a ship; and by no force of imagination, can it be supposed both a hoise and a... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1809 - 346 pages
...dissimulation;" a sa mask conceals, but does not shelter. Addison, in his Jetter from Italy, says : I bridle in my struggling muse with pain, That longs...as a horse, may be bridled ; but when we speak of launching, we make it a ship ; and by no force of imagination, can it be supposed both a horse and... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1809 - 352 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...muse, figured as a horse, may be bridled ; but when we speakof launching, we make it a ship ; and by no"force of imagination, can it be supposed both a horse... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1809 - 348 pages
...dissimulation ;" as.a mask conceals, but does not shelter. Adclison, in his letter from Italy, says: I tridle in my struggling muse with pain, That longs to launch into a bolder strain. The tnuse, figured as a horse, may be bridled; but when we speakof launching, we make it a ship ; and by... | |
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