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" The gates of hell are open night and day ; Smooth the descent, and easy is the way : But, to return, and view the cheerful skies — In this the task and mighty labour lies. "
The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. - Page 98
by Samuel Johnson - 1806
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The Adventurer, Volume 1

1823 - 304 pages
...patet atrijanua Ditis: Sed revocare gradum, superasque evadere ad auras, Hoc opus hie labor est. VIRG. The gates of hell are open night and day ; Smooth the descent, and easy is the way; But to return and view the cheerful skies; In this the task, and mighty labour lies. DRTDEN. " Suffer...
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The British Essayists: Adventurer

Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 650 pages
...janua Ditis : Sed revocare gradum, superasque evadere ad auras, Hoc opus, hie labor est. — VIRG. The gates of hell are open night and day ; Smooth the descent, and easy is the way j But to return and view the cheerful skies ; In this the task and mighty labour lies. — DP.YDEK....
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The British Essayists: Rambler

James Ferguson - 1823 - 378 pages
...atrijanua ditis; Sed revocare gradum, superasque evaders ad auras, Hoc opus, hie labor est. . VIR& The gates of Hell are open night and day ; Smooth the descent, and easy is the way ; But to return, and view the cheerful skies, In this the task and mighty labour lies. DRTDEH. Of this...
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The works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 11

Samuel Johnson - 1823 - 596 pages
...atri janua Ditls : Sed revocare gradum, superasquc evadere ad auras, Hoc opus, hie labor est. VIHG. The gates of Hell are open 'night and day ; Smooth the descent, and easy is the way : But to return and view the cheerful skies ; In this the task and mighty labour lies. DRYDEN. Suffer...
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The British Essayists: Adventurer

1823 - 324 pages
...patet atrijanua Ditis: Sed revocare gradunt, superasque evadere ad auras. Hoc opus hie labor est. VlRG. The gates of hell are open night and day ; Smooth the descent, and easy is the nay; Bui to return and view the cheerful skies; J u this the task and mighty labour lies. DRTDEX. '"...
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Letters on the Pernicious Tendency of the Biblical System, and the ...

Clerophilos (pseud.) - 1824 - 178 pages
...opinion of the apothecary, have thrown him on society a hopeless idiot. , « Faeilis descensus averni: i The gates of hell are open night and day ; Smooth the descent, and easy is the way ; But to return and view the cheerful skies, In this the task and mighty labour lies.—DHYDEN. I could...
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The Anatomy of Melancholy,: In which the Kinds, Causes, Consequences, and ...

Robert Burton - 1824 - 374 pages
...into which they have been plunged by the indulgence of their pleasing but pernicious perturbations. " The gates of hell are open night and day ; Smooth the descent, and easy is the way : But to return, an3 view the cheerful skies, In this the task and mighty labour lies." Serious contemplation,...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson: The Rambler

Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 526 pages
...open. -Fucilis descensut Arerni, Noctes atque dist patet atrijunua Ditis. VIRG. -En. lib. vi. 126. The gates of hell are open night and day ; Smooth the descent, and easy is the way. DIIYDIN. The means of doing hurt to ourselves are always at hand. I immediately sent to a printer,...
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The Literary magnet of the belles lettres, science, and the fine ..., Volume 4

Tobias Merton (pseud) - 1826 - 318 pages
...make the lapse into crime so all but imperceptible. " Faeilis descensus Averni," says the sybil ; — The gates of hell are open night and day, Smooth the descent, and easy is the way. Let us proceed to .the lines in continuation :— But, to return, and view the cheerful skies, In this...
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The Works of Virgil

Virgil - 1828 - 550 pages
...laid. Then thus replied the prophetess divine : 190 ' O goddess-born, of great Anchises' line ! Th* gates of hell are open night and day ; Smooth the descent, and easy is the way : But to return, and view the cheerful skies— In this the task and mighty valour lies. 195 To few...
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