...open. ~Facilis descensus Avemii, Noctes atque dies patel atrijanun Dtiis. vine. The gates of hell arc open night and day ; Smooth the descent, and easy is the way. DRYJDE N. The means of doing hurt to ourselves are always at hand. I immediately sent to a printer,...

...Sed revocare gradum, superusque evadere ad auras, Hoc opus, hie labor est. VIR. JEa. Lib. vi. 126. The gates of hell are open night and day ; Smooth...skies, In this the task and mighty labour lies. DRYDEN * Of this vice, as of all others, every man who indulges it is conscious : we all know our own state,...

...Sed revocare gradum, superatque evadere ad auras, Hoc olms, hie labor at, VIH. .En. Li!i. vi. 126. The gates of Hell are open night and day ; Smooth...skies, In this the task and mighty labour lies. DRYDEN. Of this vice, as of all others, every man who indulges it is conscious : we all know our own state,...

...: Scd revocare grailum, superasque evadere ad auras, Hoc opus, hie tabor est. VIRC. v£n. vi. 126. The gates of hell are open night and day ; Smooth...cheerful skies ; In this the task and mighty labour lies. DHYDEN. Suffer me to acquaint you, Sir, that I have glittered at the ball, and sparkled in the circle...

...open. -Fucilis descensut Arerni, Noctes atque dist patet atrijunua Ditis. VIRG. -En. lib. vi. 126. The gates of hell are open night and day ; Smooth the descent, and easy is the way. DIIYDIN. The means of doing hurt to ourselves are always at hand. I immediately sent to a printer,...

...gradum, superatqut cmderc ad aural, Hxaput, hie labor at. — Vino. The gates of Hell are open nighl and day ; Smooth the descent, and easy is the way ; But to return, and view the chrerfnl skier.. Of this vice, as of all others, every man who indulges it is conscious: we all know...

...make the lapse into crime so all but imperceptible. " Faeilis descensus Averni," says the sybil ; — The gates of hell are open night and day, Smooth the descent, and easy is the way. Let us proceed to .the lines in continuation :— But, to return, and view the cheerful skies, In this...

...laid. Then thus replied the prophetess divine : 190 ' O goddess-born, of great Anchises' line ! Th* gates of hell are open night and day ; Smooth the...the cheerful skies— In this the task and mighty valour lies. 195 To few great Jupiter imparts this grace, And those of shining worth, and heav'uly...

...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 cheerful skies — In this the task and mighty labor lies. 195 To few great Jupiter imparts this grace, And those of shining worth, and heav'nly race....

...to retrace one's steps, and to regain the upper world, this is the labour, this the difficulty." " Smooth the descent and easy is the way, But, to return,...In this the task and mighty labour lies." DRYDEN. The allusion in this passage is to vEneas's descent into hell, so beautifully described in the 6th...