 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 - 96 ページ1821全文表示 - この書籍について
 | Francis Barton Gummere - 1913 - 280 ページ
...should not "mix" metaphors. The usual example quoted for warning is the couplet : — " I bridle in my struggling muse with pain, That longs to launch into a nobler strain." This assumes a likeness of the main object to objects that are themselves mutually incongruous. The... | |
 | James Champlin Fernald - 1918 - 488 ページ
...statement images that are incompatible or mutually contradictory. Thus Addison writes : "I bridle in my struggling Muse with pain, That longs to launch into a nobler strain." Here the metaphors are contained in the two verbs, "bridle" and "launch." By the first the Muse is... | |
 | Roy Sarles Durstine - 1920 - 304 ページ
...Dr. Johnson's " Life of Addison," Hill quotes this passage : " Fired with that name, I bridle in my Struggling muse with pain, That longs to launch into a nobler strain. " ' To bridle a goddess,' roars the old Doctor, ' is no very delicate idea; but why must she be bridled?... | |
 | Frederick Clarke Prescott - 1922 - 354 ページ
...soliloquy, but improper if it represents an un unified picture or series of mere conceits, as I bridle in my struggling muse with pain That longs to launch into a nobler strain.' The simile on the other hand, which connects the names of two objects with the word like or its equivalent,... | |
 | John Ker Spittal - 1923 - 436 ページ
...broken metaphor, of which notice may properly be taken : Fir' 1 1 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... | |
 | Stephen Coleridge - 1923 - 290 ページ
...There is one broken metaphor, of which notice may be taken : " ' Fired with that name, I bridled 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... | |
 | Henry W. Wells - 1924 - 256 ページ
...illustrates his view of a figure that suggests an Elizabethan type. 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;... | |
 | Edward Alan Bloom, Lillian D. Bloom - 1995 - 508 ページ
...however 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. (24) To bridle a goddess Is no very delicate Idea; but why must she be Jbridled? because she longs... | |
 | Stephen Adams - 1997 - 260 ページ
...lose sight of their own metaphors, the results can embarrass: Fir'd with that name, I bridle in my struggling Muse with pain, That longs to launch into a nobler strain. "But why must she be 'bridled'? because she longs to 'launch' — an act which was never hindered by... | |
 | William Bowman Piper - 1997 - 212 ページ
...one broken metaphor, of which notice may be properly 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 bridledl because she longs to launch;... | |
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