 | Pausanias - Greece - 1794 - 440 pages
...refractory, and as it were rebounding condition of his life. And laftly he faw Tantalus extended by the fide of a lake, and that there was a tree before him, with abundance of fruit on its branches, which he defired to gather, but it vanifhed from his riew ; and this indeed indicates that he lived under the... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - Great Britain - 1816 - 630 pages
...himself; and his rolling the stone, the hard, refractory, and, as it were, rebounding condition of his life. And, lastly, he saw Tantalus extended by the...dominion of the phantasy ; but his hanging over the lake, and in vain attempting to drink, implies the elusive, humid, and rapidlygliding condition of such a... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - Great Britain - 1816 - 624 pages
...himself; and his rolling the stone, the hard, refractory, and, as it were, rebounding condition of his life. And, lastly, he saw Tantalus extended by the...he desired to gather, but it vanished from his view j and this indeed indicates, that he lived under the dominion of the phantasy ; but his hanging over... | |
 | Porphyry - Philosophy - 1823 - 298 pages
...himself; and his rolling the stone, the hard, refractory, and, as it were, rebounding condition of his life. And, lastly, he saw Tantalus extended by the...dominion of the phantasy; but his hanging over the lake, and in vain attempting to drink, denotes the elusive, humid, and rapidly-gliding condition of such... | |
 | Pausanias - Art, Greek - 1824 - 408 pages
...himself; and his rolling the stone, the hard, refractory, and as it were rebounding condition of his life. And lastly he saw Tantalus extended by the side...dominion of the phantasy : but his hanging over the lake, and in vain attempting to drink, implies the elusive, humid, and rapidlygliding condition of such a... | |
 | Pausanias (the traveller) - 1824 - 410 pages
...himself; and his rolling the stone, the hard, refractory, and as it were rebounding condition of his life. And lastly he saw Tantalus extended by the side...dominion of the phantasy : but his hanging over the lake, and in vain attempting to drink, implies the elusive, humid, and rapidlygliding condition of such a... | |
 | Pausanias - Art, Greek - 1824 - 408 pages
...himself; and his rolling the stone, the hard, refractory, and as it were rebounding condition of his life. And lastly he saw Tantalus extended by the side...dominion of the phantasy : but his hanging over the lake, and in vain attempting to drink, implies the elusive, humid, and rapidlygliding condition of such a... | |
 | Edward Vaughan Kenealy - Bible - 1870 - 766 pages
...himself : and his rolling the stone, the hard, refractory, and as it were, rebounding condition of his life. And lastly, he saw Tantalus extended by the side of a lake, and that there was a Tree (13) before him, with abundance of fruit ou its branches, which he desired to gather, but it vanished... | |
 | Thomas Taylor - Bacchantes - 1891 - 270 pages
...himself; and his rolling the stone, the hard, refractory, and, as it were, rebounding condition of his life. And, lastly, he saw Tantalus extended by the...indeed indicates, that he lived under the dominion of phantasy ; but his hanging over the lake, and in vain attempting to drink, implies the elusive, humid,... | |
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... living under the dominion of ambition and anger, was employed in continually rolling a stone up an eminence, because it perpetually descended again ; its descent implying the vicious government of himself; and his rolling the stone, the hard, refractory,... 