 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1762 - 480 pages
...frequency of its paufes, fimilar to what is made by laborious interrupted motion : With many a weary ftep, and many a groan, Up the high hill he heaves a huge round (tone. Odj/y, xi. 736. Firft march the heavy mules, fecurely flow 5 i>. i O'er hills, o'er dales, o'er... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1762 - 478 pages
...frequency of its paufes, fimilar to what is made by laborious interrupted motion : With many a weary ftep, and many a groan, Up the high hill he heaves a huge round ftone. Otty/ey, xi. 736. Firft march the heavy mules, fecurely flow ; O'er hills, o'er dales, o'er... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1765 - 576 pages
...frequency of its paufes, fimilar to what is made by laborious interrupted motion : With many a weary ftep, and many a groan, Up the high hill he heaves a huge round ftone. Odyffey, xi. 736. Firft march the heavy mules fecurely flow ; O'er hills, o'er dales, o'er craggs,... | |
 | Richard Turner - 1779 - 132 pages
...eye, and as I turn'd, furvey'd A mournful vifion ! — the Syfyphian fliade ; With many a weary flep, and many a groan, Up the high hill he heaves a huge round ftone ; The hugs round ftone, refulting with a bound, Thunders impetuous down, and fmokes along the... | |
 | Marco Girolamo Vida (bp. of Alba.) - 1793 - 302 pages
...turn'd my eye, and as I turn'd furvey'd A mournful vifion, the Sifyphian fhade ! With many a weary ftep and many a groan, . ; Up the high hill he heaves a huge round Hone ; The huge round ftone refulting with a bound, Thunders impetuous down, and fmokes along the ground*... | |
 | 1792 - 926 pages
...my eye, and as 1 turn'd furvey'd A mournful vifion ! the Sifyphian (hade ; With many a weary ftep, and many a groan, Up the high hill he heaves a huge round (tone ; The huge round ftone, refulting with a bound, Thunders impetuous down, and (mokes along the... | |
 | Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 970 pages
...my eye* and as I turn'd furvey'd A mournful vifion ! the Sifyphian fhade ; With many a weary ftep, and many a groan, Up the high hill he heaves a huge round (lone ; The huge round lionc, re fulling with a bound. Thunders impetuous down, and fmokes along the... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English literature - 1799 - 408 pages
...glide ; And fhips fecure without their haulfers ride. ! tnd imftluous math*. With many a weary ftep, and many a groan, Up the high hill he heaves a huge round ftone : The huge round ftone refulting, with a bound, Thunders impetuous down, and fmokes along the... | |
 | Joseph Robertson - English language - 1799 - 156 pages
...my eye, and, as I turiTd, furvey'd A mournful vifion, the Sifyphian fliade. With many' a weary ftep, and many' a groan, Up the high hill, he heaves a huge round ftone. The huge round ftone, refulting with a bound, Thunders impetuous down, and fmokes along the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800
...attempts has been to describe the labour of Sisyphus : With many a weary *ep, and many a groan, Up a high hill he heaves a huge round stone ; The huge round stone, resulting with abound, Thunders impetuous down, and smoaks along the ground. Who does not perceive... | |
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