...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...Thunders impetuous down, and smokes along the ground, A^ain the restless orb his toil renews, Dust mounts in clouds, while he the toil pursues." For if,...

...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,...Thunders impetuous down and smokes along the ground." How unmeasurably inferior to the original is every imitation here given ! The English translators more...

...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...bound, Thunders impetuous down, and smokes along the grourv Regular and s/ozw movement. First march the heavy mules securely slow ; O'er hills, o'er dales,...

...Sisyphian shade : With many a weary step, and many a groan, Up the high hill he heaven a huge round Btone : The huge round stone, resulting with a bound. Thunders impetuous down, and smokes along the ground. Pope. It would be endless to quote verses put of Virgil which have this particular kind of beauty in...

...a weary step, and many a eroan, Up a high hill he heaves a huge round stone ; The huge round clone ich he used to relieve by inhaling the steam of coffee, which he very frequen Who does not perceive the stone to move slowly upward, and roll violently back ? But set the same numbers...

...rolled the stone up it; and, therefore, the latter part of his punishment would have been impossible,— "The huge round stone, resulting with a bound, thunders impetuous down, and smokes along the ground." So steep is the ascent that common sand or gravel would not lie at so great an inclination to the horizon,...

...motion downwards.* 230. Pope employs again the Alexandrine to describe the motion downward. Example. " The huge round stone, resulting with a bound, Thunders impetuous down, and smokes along the ground." 231. Easy or smooth motion may be painted by a succession of soft and harmonious sounds. * The lines...

...the stone up it; and, therefore, the latter part of his punishment would have been impossible, — "The huge round stone, resulting with a bound, thunders impetuous down, and smokes along the ground." So steep is the ascent that common sand or gravel would not lie at so great an inclination to the horizon,...

...Sisyphus : With many a weary stop, and many a groan, Up a high hill he heaves a huge round Bfone ; The huge round stone resulting with a bound. Thunders impetuous down, and smokes along the ground. Who docs not perceive the stone to move slowly upward, and roll violently back ? But set the same numbers...

...mournful vision ! the Sisyphian shade. With many a weary step, and many a groan, Гр the high hill 0 Again the restless orb his toil renews, Dust mounts in clouds, and sweat descends in dews. " Now I...