...mournful vision ! the Sisyphian shade ; With many^a weary step, and many a groan, Up the higR'hill he heaves a huge round stone; The huge round stone, resulting with a bound, Thunders impetuous down, and smokes along the ground. Again the restless orb his toil renews, Dust mounts in clouds, and sweat...

...weSovSe KV\iv8(TO \aas Pope has rendered these lines thus : — With many a weary step and many a groan, Up the high hill he heaves a huge round stone ; The...stone, resulting with a 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...

...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...stone resulting with a bound, Thunders impetuous down, and smokes along the gronnd."t * L'Allegro. t Perhaps the feet employed in ancient poetry are not,...

...his labour had to recommence. 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...stone, resulting with a bound, Thunders impetuous down, and smokes along the ground." The Greeks, like all nations who follow false religions, were very superstitious,...

...insight into the 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 with a bound, Thunders impetuous down and smokes along the ground." Then his business was forthwith to heave it up to the top of the hill...

...me of the similar labors of a hero of another name; " With many a weary step, and many a groan, Up a high hill he heaves a huge round stone; The huge round stone, resulting with a bound, Whirls, leaps, and thunders down, and smokes along the ground!" Our friends have never yet, it seems,...

...similar labors of a hero of another name; " With many a weary step, and many a groan, Up a highWiill he heaves a huge round stone; The huge round stone, resulting with a bound, Whirls, leaps, and thunders down, and smokes along the ground!" Our friends have never yet, it seems,...

...tum'd surrey 'd A mournful vision ! the Sisyphian shade; With many a weary step, and many a groan, Up the high hill he heaves a huge round stone ; The...stone, resulting with a bound, Thunders impetuous down, and smokes along the ground. Again the restless orb his toil renews, Dust mounts in clouds, and sweat...

...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...

...Wide-rolling, foaming high, 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...stone, resulting with a bound, Thunders impetuous down, and smokes along the ground." " On a sudden open fly With impetuous recoil, and jarring sound, The...