 | 1862 - 696 pagina’s
...Averni, Sed revocare gradum, superasque evadere ad auras, Hie labor, hoc opus est. The downward gate is 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. But this is a task from which,... | |
 | Craufurd Tait Ramage - 1864 - 594 pagina’s
...ad sethera virtus, Dls geuiti, potuere. 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 Jupiter imparts... | |
 | William Archibald - 1864 - 58 pagina’s
...many others, enchained by the vice of intemperance, he may fancy that— The Degraded Couple. 27 " To return to heaven's pure light again, This is a work of labour and of pain ! " And so, no doubt, such a work is. But were the path of duty always "a way of... | |
 | John Alexander Ferris - 1867 - 400 pagina’s
...descensus Averni : Sed revocare gradum superasque evadere ad auras, Hoc opus, hie labor est. — Virgil. " Avernus' gates are open night and day, Smooth the...light again, This is a work of labor and of pain." Precisely so it is with the practice of vitiating the currency. It commenced with small beginnings.... | |
 | John Russell (F.E.I.S.) - 1869 - 176 pagina’s
...egg. glare (v.) ; overpower with light. " What majesty is in her gait ! " (S.) " The gates of hell are open night and day ; smooth the descent, and easy is the way." (Dry.) " In the garb of old Gaul, with the fire of old Kome." " Comedy diverted without gall." (Dry.)... | |
 | Augustine David Crake - 1874 - 310 pagina’s
...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. L discipline and... | |
 | William Simpson - 1874 - 582 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | Charles Daniel Dance - 1876 - 392 pagina’s
...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...return to heaven's pure light again, This is a work of labour and of pain."* * facilis descensus Averni : Sed revocare gradum, superasque evadere ad auras,... | |
 | Charles Daniel Dance - 1876 - 390 pagina’s
...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...return to heaven's pure light again, This is a work of labour and of pain."* • facilis descensus Averni : Sed revocare gradum, superasque evadere ad auras,... | |
 | Lionel Lisle - 1877 - 124 pagina’s
...which have found best expression in Virgil's jEneid, written about BC 20. There " The gates of hell are open night and day, Smooth the descent, and easy is the way ; " just as in the sermon on the mount, — "Wide is the gate, and broad is the way that leadeth to... | |
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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. 
