and soft couch, or between hard syllables and hard fortune.
Motion, however, may be in some sort exemplified; and yet it may be suspected that in such resemblances the mind often governs the ear, and the sounds are estimated by their meaning. One of their most successful attempts has been to describe the labour of Sisyphus:
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,
Thunders impetuous down, and smokes along the ground.
Who does not perceive the stone to move slowly upward, and roll violently back? But set the same numbers to another sense;
While many a merry tale, and many a song,
Cheer'd the rough road, we wished the rough road long.
The rough road then, returning in a round,
Mock'd our impatient steps, for all was fairy ground.
We have now surely lost much of the delay, and much of the rapidity.
