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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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A New Dictionary of Quotations from the Greek, Latin, and Modern Languages

1869 - 534 pages
...upper regions, this is, indeed, a work of difficulty, this is, indeed, a task:" — "Avernus' gates are open night and day, Smooth the descent, and easy is the way: But to return to heaven's pure light again, This is a work of labor and of pain." The poet speaks of...
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Meeting the Sun: A Journey All Round the World Through Egypt, China, Japan ...

William Simpson - 1874 - 582 pages
...anything very uncomfortable about them. The heat certainly was not complained of. Virgil says, — " The gates of hell are open night and day ; Smooth the descent, and easy is the way." The descent to a stoke-hole cannot be told in these words, for it is difficult. It might be called...
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The first chronicle of Æscendune

Augustine David Crake - 1874 - 310 pages
...not certain they do not outnumber us; even so, we probably excel them in. * The gate of hell stands open night and day ; Smooth the descent, and easy is the way : But to return, and view the upper skies — In this the toil, in this the labour lies. — DKYDEN....
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Ancient and Modern Familiar Quotations from the Greek, Latin, and Modern ...

1875 - 540 pages
...upper regions, this is, indeed, a work of difficulty, this is, indeed, a task:" — "Avernus' gates are open night and day, Smooth the descent, and easy is the way: But to return to heaven's pure light again. This is a work of labor and of pain." The poet speaks of...
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Recollections of Four Years in Venezuela

Charles Daniel Dance - 1876 - 392 pages
...strive To strip them off, 'tis being flayed alive." And an older poet said : — '' (The gates of Sin) are open night and day, Smooth the descent, and easy is the way ; But to return to heaven's pure light again, This is a work of labour and of pain."* * facilis descensus...
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Recollections of Four Years in Venezuela

Charles Daniel Dance - 1876 - 390 pages
...strive To strip them off, 'tis being flayed alive." And an older poet said : — " (The gates of Sin) are open night and day, Smooth the descent, and easy is the way ; But to return to heaven's pure light again, This is a work of labour and of pain."* • facilis descensus...
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The Bible Hell: The Words Rendered Hell in the Bible, Sheol, Hadees ...

John Wesley Hanson - 1878 - 94 pages
...race 1 whom endless night invades, Clouds the dull air, and wraps them round in shades." Virgil says: "The gates of Hell are open night and day ; Smooth the descent. and easy is the way " Just in the gate, and in the jaws of Hell, Revengeful Cares and sullen Sorrows dwell, And pale Diseases,...
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The spare half hour (papers from The Sword and the trowel).

Charles Haddon Spurgeon - 1878 - 232 pages
...season and relinquished just when we will. We may say of them, as Virgil does of hell, " Avernus' gates are open night and day, Smooth the descent, and easy is the way ; But to return to heaven's pure light again, ••• is a work of labour and of pain." True, the...
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A Book of Bombay

James Douglas - 1883 - 590 pages
...attention of the counoisseur. The game, however, went on, and we know the termination of these things. " The gates of hell are open night and day, Smooth the descent and easy is the way." The traveller who proceeds to Poona by rail, as he nears Kurjnt, must have observed a high hill on...
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Virgil's Aeneid

Virgil - 1884 - 328 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 skies, In this the task and mighty labour lies. To few great...
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