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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. "
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 86
1821
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Lives

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 714 pages
...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...
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A Criticism of the Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

John Young - Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771 - 1810 - 432 pages
...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...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, L. L. D.: In Twelve Volumes, Volume 10

Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 378 pages
...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...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 10

Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1816 - 504 pages
...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;...
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Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 22

England - 1827 - 798 pages
...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...
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Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 56

England - 1844 - 826 pages
...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...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 416 pages
...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...
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Sacred Literature: Comprising a Review of the Principles of Composition Laid ...

John Jebb - Bible - 1820 - 502 pages
...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,...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 8

England - 1821 - 726 pages
...drudgery, doomed to dwindle, year after year, into unfeed peripateticism in the outer-house, without " On» brief memorial, still erected nigh." But, " We bridle...of the Edinburgh youth, but an occasional grunt of defight from that pig-eyed Speculator, or the crack of a rotten filbert which ноте student, during...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 8

England - 1821 - 720 pages
...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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