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" With many a weary step, and many a groan, Up the high hill he heaves a huge round stone; The huge round stone, resulting with a bound, Thunders impetuous down, and smokes along the ground. "
The Gods of Homer and Virgil: Or, Mythology for Children - Page 196
1837 - 210 pages
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The Philosophy of Rhetoric, Volume 2

George Campbell - English language - 1801 - 404 pages
...which had on this very account been much admired in Homer by all the critics both ancient and modern. Up the high hill he heaves a huge round stone ; The huge round stone resulting with a bound, Thunders impetuous down, and smoaks along the ground {. In Greek thus, rttrec...
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The Spectator ...

1803 - 412 pages
...xyXiv&TO Xaa; avat&j£. ODYSS. II. i * i turn'd my eye, and as I turn'd survey'd A moqrnful vision ! the Sisyphian shade : With many a weary step, and...heaves a huge round stone : The huge round stone, resulting with a bound, Thunders impetuous down, and smokes alongthe ground.' • •— . ' -V --....
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The Elements of English Composition: Containing Practical Instructions for ...

David Irving - English language - 1803 - 266 pages
...fecurely flow ; O-'er hills, o'er dales, o'ercraggs, o'er rocks they go. " Pope. With many a weary. flep, and many a groan, Up the high hill he heaves a huge round ftone. Brvome. The impreffion made by rough founds in fucceffion, refembles that made by rough or tumultuous...
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Select British Classics, Volume 14

English literature - 1803 - 372 pages
...Av'rts I tarn'd my eye and as I torn'd survey'd A mournful vision, the Sisyphian shade : With uiany a weary step, and many a groan, Up the high hill he heaves ah*ge round stone : The huge round stoue, resulting with a bound, Thunders impetuous down, and smokes...
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The Method of Teaching and Studying the Belles Lettres: Or, An Introduction ...

Charles Rollin - Education - 1804 - 520 pages
...ix xpale{ opy'f«». " I turn'd my eye, and as I turn'd survey'd " A mournful vision ! theSisyphian shade; " With many a weary step, and many a groan,...heaves a huge round stone; " The huge round stone, resultingXvith a bound, " Thunders impetuous down, and smokes along tlie '.' ground. " Again the restless...
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The works of the poets of Great Britain and Ireland. With prefaces ..., Volume 1

Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...attempts has been to describe the labour o/ Sisyphus : With many a weary step, 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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The English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry, Selected from the Best ...

Lindley Murray - Readers - 1805 - 288 pages
...And fhips fecure without their hawfers ride. LABORIOUS AND IMPETUOUS MOTION. With riany a xveary 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 fnrokes along the...
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The Odyssey of Homer, Volume 3

Homer - Greek poetry - 1806 - 236 pages
...it on high, and whirl it to the skies. I turn'd my eye, and as I turn'd survey'd A mqurnful vision! the Sisyphian shade; With many a weary step, and many a groan, 735 Up the high hill he heaves a huge round stone; The huge round stone, resulting with a bound, Thunders...
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The Odyssey, tr. by A. Pope. To which is added, The battle of the frogs and mice

Homerus - 1807 - 488 pages
...turn'd survey'd A mournful vision! the Sisyphiau shade; "With many a weary step, and many a groan, 735 Up the high hill he heaves a huge round stone; The huge round stone, resulting with a bound, Thunders impetuous down, ami smokes along the ground. Again the restless orb...
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The Odyssey, tr. by A. Pope

Homerus - 1807 - 408 pages
...it on high, and whirl it to the skies. I turn'd my eye, and as I turn'd survey'd A mournful vision ! the Sisyphian shade; With many a weary step, and many a groan, 735 Up a high hill he heaves a huge round stone ; The huge round stone, resulting with a bound,-? Thunders...
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