| 1836 - 932 pages
...I- 11. I (unTd my eye. and as I turiTd eurvey'd A mournful vision, the Sisyphian shade : Wilh many B we laugh at may in the main of their characters be much w huse round stone : The nine round stone resulting with a hound, Thunders impetuous down, and smokes... | |
| Homer - Epic poetry, Greek - 1836 - 356 pages
...yellow apples ripen into gold : 730 " 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 the high hill he heaves a huge round stone ; The huge round stone, resulting with a bound, Thunders... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1836 - 342 pages
...waters wash'd, Where mingled and yet separate appears The river from the lake, all bluely dash'd (1) £" With many a weary step, and many a groan, Up the high hilt he heaves the huge round stone : The huge round stone, retailing with a bound, Thundera impetuous... | |
| Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1836 - 502 pages
...it on high, and whirl it to the skies. I turn'd my eye, and as 1 turn'd survey'd A mournful vision ! m *8m * * I'p the high hill he heaves a huge round stone ; The huge round stone, resulting with a hound. Thunders... | |
| Fables - 1837 - 292 pages
...on high, and whirl it to the skies. I turn'd my eye, and as I turn'd survey'd A nmurul'.il vision! the Sisyphian shade ; With many a weary step, and...he heaves a huge round stone ; The huge round stone resulting with a bound, Thunders impetuous down, and smokes along the ground, A^ain the restless orb... | |
| New Church gen. confer - 1883 - 638 pages
...to be discovered by such foul pollution, and their labours will only result like those of Sisyphus : "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 sweeps along the ground. Again the restless orb... | |
| Alfred Hix Welsh - English language - 1885 - 368 pages
...Thus Homer and his English translators suggest, by a succession of aspirates, the labor of Sisyphus: With many a weary step, and many a groan, Up the high hill he heaves a huge round stone. Then the descent: • The huge round stone, resulting with a bound, Thunders impetuous down, and smokes... | |
| William T. Ross - Elocution - 1887 - 362 pages
...; When she sang, you heard a gush Of full-voiced sweetness like a thrush. Magdalena. JF Waller. 6. With many a weary step, and many a groan, Up the high hill he heaves a huge round stone. The Odyssey, XI., 726. Homer. 7. Through moss and through brake It runs and it creeps, For a while, till... | |
| English language - 1888 - 576 pages
...march the heavy mules securely slow O'er hills, o'er dales, o'er crags, o'er rocks they go. — Popl. With many a weary step, and many a groan, Up the high hill he heaves a huge round stone.— Broom*. The impression made by rough sounds in succession resembles that made by rough or tumultuous,... | |
| Sanitary Institute of Great Britain - Public health - 1888 - 620 pages
...to a never-ending contest with the force of gravity — With many a weary sigh and many a groan, Tip 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. By means of great expenditure... | |
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