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An Essay on the Nature of the English Verse: With Directions for Reading Poetry - Page 38
by Joseph Robertson - 1799 - 134 pages
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The Elements of English Composition: Containing Practical Instructions for ...

David Irving - 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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The Method of Teaching and Studying the Belles Lettres: Or, An Introduction ...

Charles Rollin - 1804 - 520 pages
...my eye, and as I turn'd survey'd " A mournful vision ! theSisyphian shade; " With many a weary step, and many a groan, " Up the high hill he heaves a huge round stone; " The huge round stone, resultingXvith a bound, " Thunders impetuous down, and smokes along...
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The English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry, Selected from the Best ...

Lindley Murray - 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...refulting, with a bound, Thunders impetuous down, and fnrokes along the ground; REGULAR AND SLOW MOVEMENT. Firft march the heavy mules fecurely flow ; O'er...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper, Volume 19

Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 790 pages
...ihy eye, and as I tum'd survey'd A mournful vision ! the Sfeyphian shade ; 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...
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The English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry, Selected from the Best ...

Lindley Murray - 1810 - 262 pages
...ships secure without their haulsers ride. Laborious and imfietuous Motion. 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...
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The American Orator, Or, Elegant Extracts in Prose and Poetry: Comprehending ...

Increase Cooke - 1811 - 428 pages
...And ships secure without their haulsers ride.. Laborious and Impetuous Motion. 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...
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The Arts and Sciences Abridged: With a Selection of Pieces, from Celebrated ...

Charles Peirce - 1811 - 266 pages
...gliJe ; *e«ttre. wuaout,ihei?.baw«w fide. Laborious and impetuous motion, With many a weary step, and many a groan, Up the high hill he heaves a huge round ston; : The huge round stone, resulting with a bound, Thunders impetuous down, and smokes along the...
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The Works of the Greek and Roman Poets, Volume 3, Part 1

1813 - 406 pages
...tnrn'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, 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...
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The poems, with critical notes; a life of the author; and an essay on his ...

Thomas Gray, John Mitford - 1816 - 446 pages
...from Pope's Homer, Od. xi. 736, is to be attributed to another source : And, " With many a weary step, and many a groan, Up the high hill he heaves a huge round stone." " When the tide rushes from her trembling caves, The rough rock roars, tumultuous boil the...
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Elements of Criticism, Volume 2

Lord Henry Home Kames - 1816 - 452 pages
...frequency of its pauses, similar to what is made by laborious interrupted motion ; With many a weary step, and many a groan, Up the high hill he heaves a huge round stone. OJy'tey, xi. 736. First march the heavy mules securely slow ; O'er hills, o'er dules, o'er crags,...
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