 | J. R. Wolfe - 1855 - 272 pages
...turned mine eye and as I turned 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... | |
 | 1856 - 640 pages
...appositely illustrate the obstacles to our progress. Like Pope's hero, who "With many aweary 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... | |
 | Francis Baily, John Frederick William Herschel - 1856 - 466 pages
...my eye, and as I turn'd, survey'd A mournfiil 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 amokes along the... | |
 | Francis Bowen - 1856 - 590 pages
...is realized the fable of Sisyphus, and an instructive moral is inculcated. " With many a weary step and many a groan, Up the high hill he heaves a huge ronnd stone ; The huge round stone, resulting with a bound, Thunders impetuous down, and smokes along... | |
 | John Timbs - 1858 - 272 pages
...labour. But Sisyphus overreached Pluto, and escaped from the under-world. , " 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... | |
 | Francis Bowen - 1859 - 586 pages
...is realized the fable of Sisyphus, and an instructive moral is inculcated. " 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... | |
 | Francis Bowen - 1859 - 576 pages
...is realized the fable of Sisyphus, and an instructive moral is inculcated. " 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 - 1859 - 504 pages
...turn'd my eye, and as 1 turu'd survey'd A mournful vision ! the Sisyphian shade. With many a weury step, away. Bat 1, who think more highly of our kind, i (And su stone ; The huge round stone, resulting with a bound, Thunders impetuous down, and smokes along the... | |
 | James Robert Boyd - 1860 - 416 pages
...the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse, should like the torrent roar." " With many a weary step, and many a groan, Up the high hill he heaves a huge round stone." ' " Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smootn stream in smoother numbers... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1861 - 660 pages
...their most successful attempts has been to describe 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... | |
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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. 
