...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...

...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...

...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...

...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,...

...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...

...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 his...

...Facilis descensus Averni, Sed revocare gradum superasque evadere ad auras Hoc opus, hie labor est. " 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 valour lies." — DRYDEN....

...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...

...The task is a difficult one, but Mr. Gladstone does not seem to shrink from it: — " Avernus' gates are open night and day, Smooth the descent and easy is the way. But to return to heaven's pure light again, Such is a work of labour and of pain." In coming back once...

...altar laid. Then thus replied the prophetess divine : " О goddess.born ! of great Anchises' line, The gates of hell are open night and day, Smooth the descent and easy is the way ; Hul to return and view the cheerful skies, In this the task and mighty labour lies. To lew great...