...metaphors. It is surprising that the following 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, figured as a horse, may be bridled ; but when we speak of launching, we make it a ship ;...

...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 (train.* The muse, figured as a horse, may be bridled; but when we speak of launching, we make it a...

...Example 3. More correct writers than Shakspeare sometimes fall into this error of mixing metaphors. I bridle in my struggling muse with pain, That longs to launch into a holder strain.* Analysis. The muse, figured as a horse, may be bridled; but when we speak of launching,...

...Example 3. More correct writers than Shakspeare sometimes fall into this error of mixing metaphors. I bridle in my struggling muse with pain, That longs to launch into a bolder strain.* Analysis. The muse, figured as a horse, may be bridled; but when we speak of launching, we make it...

...vain to conquer or divide, Whom Nassau's arme defend and counsels guide. Fir'd with the name, which 1 ual king, And put to proof his high supremacy, Whether upheld by stre bridle-in my struggling Muse with pain. That longs to launch into a bolder strain. But 1 've already...

...godlike sons would disunite By foreign gold, or by domestic spite : ADDISON. But strives in vain lo sh worn, bridle-in my struggling Muse with pain, That longs to launch into a bolder strain. But I 've already...

...aspiring head, And fain her godlike sons would disunite By foreign gold, or by domestic spite : V ADDISON. BO oft have found The distant climes and different tongues resound, I bridle-in my struggling Muse...

...look out for minute similitudes. Q. Can you give any example of the latter part of the rale ! A. " I bridle in my struggling muse with pain, That longs to launch into a bolder strain-" Q. What is the error here 1 A. The muse is first compared to a horse, held in by a bridle, that it...

...Whip into rhyme the noblest work of God ? f * This is an allusion to the well-known couplet : — " I bridle in my struggling muse with pain, That longs to launch into a bolder strain." f Pope sings " A wit's a feather and a chief's a rod, An honest man's the noblest work of God ; " where,...

...view may enable us to discover the beauty of an object, but can never be said to extinguish it.—" I bridle in my struggling muse with pain, That longs to launch into a bolder strain." The muse, if figured as a horse, may, indeed, be bridled; but when we speak of launching, we make it...