| Samuel Johnson - 1820 - 412 pages
...attempts has been to describe the labour of Sisyphus : i 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 a bound, Thunders impetuous down, and smokes along the ground. Who does not perceive... | |
| David Irving - English language - 1821 - 336 pages
...march the heavy mules securely slow ; O'er hills, o'er dales, o'er crags, o'er rocks they go.— Ptpc. With many a weary step, and many a groan, Up the high hill he heaves a huge round stone. — Broome. i ne impression made by rough sounds in succession, resembles that made by rough or tumultuous... | |
| Lindley Murray - Children - 1821 - 278 pages
...without their halsers ride. Laborious and impetuous motion. With many a weary step, and many a groan, Hp 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. Regular and slow movement.... | |
| Lindley Murray - Children - 1821 - 280 pages
...softer murmurs glide ; And ships secure without their hawsers ride. Laborious and Impetuous Moticn. With many a weary step and many a groan, Up the high hiH he heaves a huge round stone : The huge round stt.ne resulting, with a bound, Thunders impetuous... | |
| British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 348 pages
...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...heaves a huge round stone ; The huge round stone, resulting with a bound, Thunders impetuous down, and smokes along the ground. Again the restless orb... | |
| Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - Literature - 1822 - 322 pages
...softer murmurs glide; And ships secure without their halsers ride. Laborious and impetuous motion. With many a weary step, and many a groan, Up the high...he heaves a huge round stone; The huge round stone resulting with a bound, Thunders impetuous down, and smokes along the ground. Regular and slow movement.... | |
| British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 308 pages
...attempts has been to describe the labour of 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 a bound, Thunders impetuous down, and smokes along the ground. Who does not perceive... | |
| Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 278 pages
...xuXivSEro Xan; srauMf. — ODYSS. I. 11. I turn'd my eye, and as I turn'd survey'd A mournful 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 along the ground. — POPE. It would be... | |
| British essayists - 1823 - 820 pages
...iivKi^lro Aaaf ava/S>i;. ODTSS. A. 596. I turn'd my eye, and as I turn'd survey'd A mournful 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 along the ground. It would be endless to... | |
| Aristotle - Rhetoric - 1823 - 510 pages
...memory. Pope's beautiful translation touches not on what Aristotle deems the main circumstance : — With many a weary step and many a groan, Up the high...he heaves a huge round stone; The huge round stone, resulting with a bound, Thunders impetuous down, and smokes along the ground. satiate their thirst... | |
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