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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 Fologues

Virgil - 1830 - 370 pages
...altar laid. Then thus replied the prophetess divine : 190 ' O goddess-born, of great Anchises' line ! 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 labor lies. 195 To few...
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The People's Book: Comprising Their Chartered Rights and Practical Wrongs

William Carpenter - 1831 - 508 pages
...another, — suck is the relish of forbidden fruit ; for, as the Roman poet observes, " The gates of bell are open night and day, Smooth the descent, and easy is the way." So, when this agreement was on the tapis, it was bethought by those whom it concerned, that Mr. Sugden...
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The Melange: A Variety of Original Pieces in Prose and Verse : Comprising ...

Egerton Smith - 1831 - 656 pages
...aloof, but once having entered it, there is little hope of return or escape. The gates of hell stand open night and day, Smooth the descent and easy is the way ; But to return to light and golden skies; Th.it is the task ; — 'tis there the labour lies. " You...
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Parting Advice to a Youth on Leaving His Sunday School

1833 - 94 pages
...therefore most particularly charge you to be careful here. Temptations surround you on every hand ; " The gates of hell are open night and day, Smooth the descent, and easy is the way." Approach not these gates, I beseech you. As the house of God is the gate of heaven, so the theatre...
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Virgil: The Eclogues, Volume 2

Virgil - 1834 - 340 pages
...altar laid. Then thus replied the prophetess divine : 190 " O goddess-born, of great Anchises' line ! 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. 195 To few...
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The Works of John Dryden: In Verse and Prose, with a Life, Volume 2

John Dryden, John Mitford - 1836 - 488 pages
...altar laid. Then thus replied the prophetess divine : " O goddess-bora, of great Anchises' line ! *n»e 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. To few great...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: An essay on the life and genius of ...

Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 630 pages
...auijunita Ditii. TIEQ Tlie pate* of hell are open night and day ; Smooth the descent and eaay is the way. The means of doing hurt to ourselves are always at hand. I immediately sent to a printer, ana contracted with him for an impression of several thousands of my pamphlet. While it was at the...
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Lectures on the Nature and Dangerous Tendency of Modern Infidelity ...

Levi Tucker - 1837 - 200 pages
...purity and happiness of man. "Facihs decensus Averni, Noctea atque dies patet atri januna Distis." The gates of hell are open night and day: Smooth the descent, and easy is the way. The term, infidelity, is generic, and covers the whole field of scepticism; embracing atheists of various...
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The Works of George Campbell: Philosophy of rhetoric

George Campbell - 1840 - 450 pages
...eloquence. Here its triumph is truly glorious, and in its application to this end lies its great utility : 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. Now...
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The natural history of society in the barbarous and civilized state

William Cooke Taylor - 1840 - 800 pages
...decline is traced in the well known lines, Facilis descensus Averni, etc., or as Dryden renders them — The gates of hell are open night and day, Smooth the descent and easy is the w.-iy : But to return and view the cheerful skies, In this the task of mighty labour lies; To few great...
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