| William Peter - 1847 - 562 Seiten
...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, resulting...Thunders impetuous down, and smokes along the ground. Again the restless orb his toil renews, Dust mounts in clouds, and sweat descends in dews. Now I the... | |
| Asa Humphrey - 1847 - 238 Seiten
...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, | resulting with a bound, Thunders | impel | uous down, | and smokes along the ground." These lines are seen to be diversified with different... | |
| 1848 - 622 Seiten
...rendered these lines thus : — 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 grotmd.f All we know here, is, that the stone is heaved up the high hill. That of Hampstead perhaps... | |
| Ohio. General Assembly. Senate - 1849 - 492 Seiten
...constancy of his occupation : " With many a weary step, and many a groan. Up theliigli hill he heaves a huge round stone ; The huge round stone resulting...Thunders impetuous down and smokes along the ground." Then his business was forthwith to heave it up to the top of the hill again. This unfortunate and interesting... | |
| Mary Howard Ballantyne - 1849 - 266 Seiten
...Homer writes thus of him:— " With many a weary step and many a groan, Up the high hill he heaves a huge round stone; The huge round stone, resulting...Thunders impetuous down, and smokes along the ground." The Greeks, like all nations who follow false religions, were very superstitious, and tried various... | |
| George Campbell - 1849 - 472 Seiten
...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 gronnd."t * L'Allegro. t Perhaps the feet employed in ancient poetry are not, in strict propriety,... | |
| 1850 - 546 Seiten
..."The Essence of Christianity," and a " Supplementary Volume on the Essence of Christianity." * " Tne huge round stone, resulting with a bound, Thunders...down, and smokes along the ground." Pope's Odyssey, XI. 737. 226 Feuerbach's Essence of Christianity. [Sept. tical character. They are in striking contrast... | |
| 1850 - 608 Seiten
...— "The Essence of Christianity," and a " Supplementary Volume on the Essence of Christianity." * " The huge round stone, resulting with a bound, Thunders impetuous down, and smokes along the ground." tical character. They are in striking contrast to the dreamy votaries of Schelling, who revelled in... | |
| James Goodeve Miall - 1851 - 382 Seiten
...V. AIMINGS AT THE IMPOSSIBLE. " With many a weary step, and many a groan, Up-hill rolls Sisyphus his huge round stone. The huge round stone, resulting with a bound, Thunders impetuous down, and foams along the ground." POPE. THE old town of Kimbolton, in the county of Huntingdon, has not much... | |
| James Robert Boyd - 1852 - 364 Seiten
...and tumbling on the shore." " With many a weary step, and many a groan, Up the high hill he heaves a huge round stone ; The huge round stone, resulting...Thunders impetuous down, and smokes along the ground." " On a sudden open fly With impetuous recoil, and jarring sound, The infernal doors, and on their hinges... | |
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