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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 Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With and Essay on His Life ..., Volume 1

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1842 - 620 pages
...Ditû. Tina The pates of hell nre open nt?lit and day ; Smooth the descent and еалу л 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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The Scriptural Doctrine of the Trinity

M. W. Alford - 1842 - 130 pages
...Bible, is rejected, the way to infidelity is paved. To that individual T " The gate of hell stands open night and day, Smooth the descent, and easy is the way !" It seems to us to be marvellous credulity, for a man to believe that a creature, a finite being,...
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The Works of John Dryden: In Verse and Prose, with a Life, Volume 2

John Dryden, John Mitford - 1844 - 536 pages
...holy altar laid. Then thus replied the prophetess divine : " 0 goddess-horn, 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 skiesIn this the task and mighty lahour lies. To few great Jupiter...
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Reflections on Names and Places in Devonshire ...

Miss Cornish - 1845 - 432 pages
...fathers' sight ' Then thus replied the prophetess divine, ' O goddess-born ! of great Anchises' line, The gates of hell are open night and day ; Smooth the descent, and easy is the way: , IN; 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.: With an Essay on His Life and ..., Volume 1

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1846 - 624 pages
...Sed reaocare gradum, guperasque evadtre ad aurtts, Hoc opus, hie labor ett. vr;.n. The gates of Hrll are open night and day ; Smooth the descent, and easy is the way : But to return and view the cheerful skiea ; In this the task and mighty labour lies.. DRYDEN. Suffer...
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Specimens of the Poets and Poetry of Greece and Rome

William Peter - 1847 - 562 pages
...holy altar laid. Then thus replied the prophetess divine: "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 skiea — In this the task and mighty labour lies. To few great...
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Lecture on The North and the South: Delivered Before the Young Men's ...

Ellwood Fisher - 1849 - 40 pages
...have to fix the gateway in the heart of a great city, where the vices hold their revels. 'Tis there " The gates of Hell are open night and day, Smooth the descent, and easy is the way." It cannot be said that the excessive mortality among the males of the North is owing to their unwholesome...
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The Philosophy of Rhetoric

George Campbell - 1849 - 472 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."* — DRYDEIJ....
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De Bow's Commercial Review of the South & West, Volume 7

James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow - 1850 - 616 pages
...have to fix the gateway in the heart of a great city, where the vices hold their revels. 'Tis there "The gates of Hell are open night and day, Smooth the descent and easy is the way. It cannot be said that the excessive mortality among the males of the North, is owing to their unwholesome...
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De Bow's Review and Industrial Resources, Statistics, Etc: Devoted ..., Volume 7

James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow, R. G. Barnwell, Edwin Bell (Q.), William MacCreary Burwell - 1850 - 628 pages
...have to fix the gateway in the heart of a great city, where the vices hold their revels. 'Tis there " The gates of Hell are open night and day, Smooth the descent an d easy is the way. It cannot be said that the excessive mortality among the males of the North,...
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