 | Lord Henry Home Kames - 1762
...frequency of its paufes, fimilar to what is made by laborious interrupted motion : With many a weary ftep, and many a groan, Up the high hill he heaves a huge round (tone. Odj/y, xi. 736. Firft march the heavy mules, fecurely flow 5 i>. i O'er hills, o'er dales, o'er... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - 1762
...frequency of its paufes, fimilar to what is made by laborious interrupted motion : With many a weary ftep, and many a groan, Up the high hill he heaves a huge round ftone. Otty/ey, xi. 736. Firft march the heavy mules, fecurely flow ; O'er hills, o'er dales, o'er... | |
![Elements of criticism: Volume I [-II].](http://bks3.books.google.com.au/books?id=2-IFAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&edge=curl "Elements of criticism: Volume I [-II].") | Lord Henry Home Kames - 1765
...frequency of its paufes, fimilar to what is made by laborious interrupted motion : With many a weary ftep, and many a groan, Up the high hill he heaves a huge round ftone. Odyffey, xi. 736. Firft march the heavy mules fecurely flow ; O'er hills, o'er dales, o'er craggs,... | |
 | Richard Turner - 1779
...eye, and as I turn'd, furvey'd A mournful vifion ! — the Syfyphian fliade ; With many a weary flep, and many a groan, Up the high hill he heaves a huge round ftone ; The hugs round ftone, refulting with a bound, Thunders impetuous down, and fmokes along the... | |
 | Marco Girolamo Vida (bp. of Alba.) - 1793
...turn'd my eye, and as I turn'd furvey'd A mournful vifion, the Sifyphian fhade ! With many a weary ftep and many a groan, . ; Up the high hill he heaves a huge round Hone ; The huge round ftone refulting with a bound, Thunders impetuous down, and fmokes along the ground*... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1799 - 356 pages
...glide ; And fhips fecure without their haulfers ride. ! tnd imftluous math*. With many a weary ftep, and many a groan, Up the high hill he heaves a huge round ftone : The huge round ftone refulting, with a bound, Thunders impetuous down, and fmokes along the... | |
 | Joseph Robertson - 1799 - 134 pages
...my eye, and, as I turiTd, furvey'd A mournful vifion, the Sifyphian fliade. With many' a weary ftep, and many' a groan, Up the high hill, he heaves a huge round ftone. The huge round ftone, refulting with a bound, Thunders impetuous down, and fmokes along the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Poetry - 1800
...attempts 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
...which had on this 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...resulting with a bound, Thunders impetuous down, and smoaks along the ground {. In Greek thus, rttrec TTtoovot K.-j'Aivo?to ).&&:. cwouO'M. OD. In Latin... | |
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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. 
