 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 714 pages
...has been to describe the labour of Sisyphus : With many a weary *ep, and many a groan, Up a high hill he heaves a huge round stone ; The huge round stone, resulting with abound, Thunders impetuous down, and smoaks along the ground. Who does not perceive the stone to move... | |
 | George Campbell - 1801 - 404 pages
...very account been much admired in Homer by all the critics both ancient and modern. Up the high hill he heaves a huge round stone; The huge round stone...resulting with a bound, Thunders impetuous down, and smoaks along the ground £. In Greek thus, wd)i$. OD. In Latin verse, Vida, in his Art of Poetry, hath... | |
 | 1803 - 412 pages
...moqrnful 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,...with a bound, Thunders impetuous down, and smokes alongthe ground.' • •— . ' -V --. : ..... POPE. It would be endless to quote verses out of Virgil... | |
 | 1803 - 372 pages
...weary step, and many a groan, Up the high hill he heaves ah*ge round stone : The huge round stoue, resulting with a bound, Thunders impetuous down, and smokes along the ground. " POPE. It would be endless to quote verses out of Virgil which have this particular kind of beauty... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...been to describe the labour o/ Sisyphus : With many a weary step, and many a groan, Up a high hill he heaves a huge round stone ; The huge round stone, resulting with abound, Thunders impetuous down, and smoaks along the ground. Who does not perceive the stone to move... | |
 | Charles Rollin - 1804 - 520 pages
...resultingXvith a bound, " Thunders impetuous down, and smokes along tlie '.' ground. " Again the restless orh his toil renews, " Dust mounts in clouds, and sweat descends in dews." POPE. 4. Swiftness. In the following passage does not the rapidity of the second verse dispute it with... | |
 | Homer - 1806 - 236 pages
...mqurnful vision! the Sisyphian shade; With many a weary step, and many a groan, 735 Up the high hill he heaves a huge round stone; The huge round stone,...descends in dews. Now I the strength of Hercules behold, 741 A tow'ring spectre of gigantic mould, A shadowy form! for high in heav'n's abodes Himself resides,... | |
 | Homerus - 1807 - 488 pages
...mournful vision! the Sisyphiau shade; "With many a weary step, and many a groan, 735 Up the high hill he heaves a huge round stone; The huge round stone, resulting with a bound, Thunders impetuous down, ami smokes along the ground. Again the restless orb his toil renews, Dust mounts in clonds, and sweat... | |
 | Homerus - 1807 - 408 pages
...mournful vision ! the Sisyphian shade; With many a weary step, and many a groan, 735 Up a high hill he heaves a huge round stone ; The huge round stone,...resulting with a bound,-? Thunders impetuous down, andsmokesalpngtheground. Again the restless orb his toil renews, Dust mounts in clouds, and sweat descends... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 296 pages
...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,...Thunders impetuous down, and smokes along the ground. POPE. It would be endless to quote verses out of Virgil which have this particular kind of beauty in... | |
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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. 
