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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. "
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 British essayists, with prefaces by A. Chalmers, Volumes 7-8

British essayists - 1823 - 820 pages
...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 English Reader, Or, Pieces of Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Best ...

Lindley Murray - 1825 - 270 pages
...And ships secure without their halsers 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 ground....
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A Grammar of Rhetoric and Polite Literature: Comprehending the Principles of ...

Alexander Jamieson - 1826 - 320 pages
...shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar." Example 2. Again, " With many a weary step, and many a groan, Up the high hill he heaves a huge round stone." Analysis. The last line possesses uncommon heauty ; for, hesides that the words are all monosyllahles,...
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The English Reader, Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry: From the Best Writers ...

Lindley Murray - 1827 - 262 pages
...ships secure without their halsers ride*. Laborious and impetuous motion. With many a weary step*, and many a groan', Up the high hill he heaves a huge round stone* : Tne huge round stone resulting with abound', Thunders impetuous down', and smokes along the...
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The Odyssey, tr. by A. Pope. To which is added, The battle of the frogs and mice

Homerus - 1827 - 538 pages
...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 th ground....
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The Odyssey of Homer, Volume 1

Homer - 1828 - 244 pages
...my eye, and as I turn'd survey'd A mournful vision ! the Sisy phian 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 ground....
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The Odyssey, tr. by A. Pope. [Followed by] Battle of the frogs and ..., Volume 1

Homerus - 1828 - 246 pages
...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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Murray's English Reader

Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - 1829 - 318 pages
...And ships secure, without their halsers 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 ground....
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The English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry, Selected from the Best ...

Lindley Murray - 1830 - 244 pages
...ships secure without their halsers ride. Laborious and impetuous motion. With many a weary step, an 1 many a groan, Up the high hill he heaves a huge round stone : The huge round stone resulting with a bound, Thunders impetuous down, ana smokes along the...
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Works, Volume 2

Thomas Gray - 1835 - 342 pages
...quotes from Pope's Homer, Od. xi. 736, is to be attributed to another source : ' With many a weary step, and many a groan, Up the high hill he heaves a huge round stone. ' And, " When the tide rushes from her trembling caves, The rough rock roars, tumultuous boil...
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