 | David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 714 σελίδες
...Pope's best attempts at imitative harmony is his description of the labour of Sisyphus. With many n weary step and many a groan, Up the high hill he heaves...huge round stone ; The huge round stone, resulting witli a hound, Thunders impetuous dairn and smolies along the ground. To every reader, who has gentility... | |
 | Alexander Jamieson - 1840 - 314 σελίδες
...surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar." Example 2. Again, "With many a weary step, and many a groan, Up the high hill he heaves a huge round stone." Analysis. The last line possesses uncommon beauty ; for, besides that the words are all monosyllables,... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 376 σελίδες
...numbers." One of Pope's best attempts at imitative harmony is his description of the labour of Sisyphus. With many a weary step and many a groan, Up the high hill he heaves a fiutfc round sttmc ; The huge round stone, resulting- with a bound, Thunders impetuous down and smokes... | |
 | George Campbell - 1841 - 416 σελίδες
...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...bound, Thunders impetuous down, and smokes along the ground. f * L' Allegro. 1 Perhaps the feet employed in ancient poetry are not in strict propriety applicable... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1885 - 368 σελίδες
...Thus Homer and his English translators suggest, by a succession of aspirates, the labor of Sisyphus: With many a weary step, and many a groan, Up the high hill he heaves a huge round stone. Then the descent: • The huge round stone, resulting with a bound, Thunders impetuous down, and smokes... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1885 - 364 σελίδες
...many a weary step, and many a groan, Up the high hill he heaves a huge round stone. Then the descent: The huge round stone, resulting with a bound. Thunders impetuous down, and smokes along the ground. Heaviness and stupidity are similarly indicated: Just writes to make his barrenness appear,... | |
 | William T. Ross - 1887 - 362 σελίδες
...; When she sang, you heard a gush Of full-voiced sweetness like a thrush. Magdalena. JF Waller. 6. With many a weary step, and many a groan, Up the high hill he heaves a huge round stone. The Odyssey, XI., 726. Homer. 7. Through moss and through brake It runs and it creeps, For a while, till... | |
 | Alexander Bain - 1888 - 388 σελίδες
...Sisyphus are an admired example in the Greek, and the effect is aimed at by the English translators. With many a weary step, and many a groan, Up the high...round stone ; The huge round stone resulting with a hound, Thunders impetuous down, and smokes along the ground. Up to the middle of the third line, we... | |
 | Sanitary Institute of Great Britain - 1888 - 620 σελίδες
...to a never-ending contest with the force of gravity — With many a weary sigh and many a groan, Tip the high hill he heaves a huge round stone ; The huge...bound, Thunders impetuous down, and smokes along the ground. By means of great expenditure of time and money, we may for a period wage with nature a war... | |
 | 1888 - 576 σελίδες
...march the heavy mules securely slow O'er hills, o'er dales, o'er crags, o'er rocks they go. — Popl. With many a weary step, and many a groan, Up the high hill he heaves a huge round stone.— Broom*. The impression made by rough sounds in succession resembles that made by rough or tumultuous,... | |
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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. 
