 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - 446 стор.
...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 * Spence. why must she be bridled'? because she longs... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - 452 стор.
...one broken m'etaphor, 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 * Spence. why must she be bridled1? because she... | |
 | 1824 - 762 стор.
...rendering the government like — Penelope's web !" Here the Biographer obviously " Bridles in his struggling muse with pain, That longs to launch into a nobler strain." The prose is an absolute rival of this great canon of inetaphoric poetry. The lieutenancies and the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 504 стор.
...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 is no very delicate idea ; bat wh? h Spence. must she be bridled ? because she... | |
 | 1827 - 808 стор.
...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 «train. The voyage of Alciphron and Alethe U now at an end. They land — and there is an immediate... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1834 - 722 стор.
...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 goddeai is no very delicate idea ; but why must she be bridled ? because she langt to launch... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 752 стор.
...one broken metaphor, of which notice may properly be taken : — Fir'd with that na I bridle in my ll defended, re ward your pious labours, and grant that I may be foun To bridle a goddess is no very delicate idea ; but why must she be bridled 'I because she longt to... | |
 | 1844 - 834 стор.
...annals 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... | |
 | 1844 - 828 стор.
...annals of queenly hospitality. But we must destend 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 - 1854 - 344 стор.
...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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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. 
