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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 Carthusian, Issue 1

1837 - 574 pages
...effect of his translation, though his last line is but a copy of Dryden's. " 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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Mythological Fables

1837 - 292 pages
...my eye, and as I turn'd survey'd A nmurul'.il 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 Gods of Homer and Virgil: Or, Mythology for Children

1837 - 222 pages
...as constantly returning, kept him perpetually employed. 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, returning with a bound, Thunders impetuous down, and smokes along the...
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A Grammar of Rhetoric and Polite Literature: Comprehending the Principles of ...

Alexander Jamieson - 1840 - 314 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 beauty ; for, besides that the words are all monosyllables,...
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Literary leaves, or, Prose and verse: chiefly written in India, Volumes 1-2

David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 714 pages
...attempts at imitative harmony is his description of the labour of Sisyphus. With many n weary step and many a groan, Up the high hill he heaves a huge round stone ; The huge round stone, resulting witli a hound, Thunders impetuous dairn and smolies along the...
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Literary Leaves; Or, Prose and Verse Chiefly Written in India, Volume 1

David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 352 pages
...attempts at imitative harmony is his description of the labour of Sisyphus. 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 Works of Joseph Addison, Volumes 1-2

Joseph Addison - 1842 - 944 pages
...turn'd my eye, and as I turn'd turvcy'd A mournful viiion, tbe Sisyphian shade : With many a weary step, p stone : The hnge round stone, resulting with a bound, Thunders impetuous down, and smokes along tbe...
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Elements of Mythology: Or, Classical Fables of the Greeks and Romans

Eliza Robbins - 1851 - 318 pages
...never-ceasing labour of rolling an enormous rock up to the summit of a steep mountain. 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 Prosody: With Rules Deduced from the Genius of Our Language, and ...

Asa Humphrey - 1847 - 238 pages
...spondee, in the intermediate parts. 7. 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 | impel | uous down, | and smokes...
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Specimens of the Poets and Poetry of Greece and Rome

William Peter - 1847 - 562 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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