...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...bound, Thunders impetuous down, and smokes along the ground2. 9 L' Allegro. i Perhaps the feet employed in ancient poetry are not in strict propriety applicable...

...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 along the ground. To every reader, who has gentility enough to aspirate the h's, the second line is quite a task. He...

...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...

...many a weary al-'p, nnd талу а ггоап, Upa hieli hill he heaves a huge round stone ; Tli« On a hulk, alongrlhe ground. Who docs not perceive the stone to move slowly upward, and roll violently back ?...

...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...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...

...Wide-rolling, foaming high, and tumbling on the shore.—Pope. The last is of rapid motion prolonged: The huge round stone, resulting with a bound, Thunders impetuous down, and smokes along the ground.—Pope. A period consisting mostly of long syllables, produces an emotion which bears a faint...

...! 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, resulting...Thunders impetuous down, and smokes along the ground. Again the restless orb his toil renews, 739 Dust mounts in clouds, and sweat descends in dews. " Now...

...With many a weary step, and many a groan, Up the high hill he heaves a huge round stone : The hnge tbe ground. Pope. It would be endless to quote verses put of Virgil which have this particular kind...

...a weary sirp, and many a eroan, Up a high hill he heavce a huge round stone : The huge round «one resulting with a bound. Thunders impetuous down, and smokes along the ground. Who does not perceive the stone to move slowly upward, and roll violently back ? But Bet the same numbers...

...summit of a steep mountain. With many a weary step, and many a groan, Up the high hill he heaves a huge, round stone , The huge, round stone, resulting...bound, Thunders impetuous down, and smokes along the groiw»d. Again the restless orb his toil renews, Dust mounts in clouds, and sweat descends in dews....