 | Lord Henry Home Kames - 1847 - 516 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 roundstone. Odyaey, XI. 736. First march the heavy mules securely slow; O'er hills, o'er dales, o'er... | |
 | 1848 - 622 pages
...A.VTIS, firtiTa weSovSe KV\iv8(TO \aas Pope has rendered these lines thus : — 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 grotmd.f... | |
 | Mary Howard Ballantyne - 1849 - 266 pages
...again, and all his labour had to recommence. Homer writes thus of him:— " 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1850 - 510 pages
...turn'd my eye, and as I tum'd surrey '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... | |
 | 1852 - 742 pages
...to describe the laa long time without even the move- bour 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... | |
 | James Robert Boyd - 1852 - 364 pages
...the waves before, Wide-rolling, foaming high, and tumbling on the shore." " 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... | |
 | Spectator The - 1853 - 1118 pages
...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. 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... | |
 | Homer - 1853 - 398 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 ; 13 The huge round stone, resulting with a bound, Thunders impetuous down, and smokes along... | |
 | Spectator The - 1853 - 566 pages
...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, 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... | |
 | 1854 - 630 pages
...my eye. and as I turn'd siirvey'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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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. 
