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...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...

...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...

...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;...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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,...

...drudgery, doomed to dwindle, year after year, into unfeed peripateticism in the outer-house, without " One brief memorial, still erected nigh." But, " We bridle...of the Edinburgh youth, but an occasional grunt of delight from that pig-eyed Speculator, or the crack of a rotten filbert which some student, during...

...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...