 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 Virgil - Página 219por Virgil - 1803Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | John Milton - 1884 - 74 páginas
...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. 434 Convex of fire. Regarded from the point of view of an outside spectator.... | |
 | Virgil - 1886 - 336 páginas
...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 Jupiter imparts this grace, And those of shining worth and heavenly race. Hetwixt those... | |
 | William Francis Henry King - 1887 - 630 páginas
...Lower World. Smooth the descent and easy is the way ; (The Gates of Hell stand open night and day) : But to return, and view the cheerful skies, In this the task and mighty labour lies. — Drydcn Ы Applicable to the ease with which men fall into vicious habits, and the difficulty of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1888 - 424 páginas
...est." VlRG. " 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." DRYDEN. Of this vice, as of all others, every man who indulges it is conscious: we all know our own... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1889 - 460 páginas
...being laid too high, they have been often out of sight and ever out of hearing. Secondly, that the 1 " But to return, and view the cheerful skies, In this the task and mighty labour lies." materials being very transitory, have suffered much from inclemencies of air, especially in these north-west... | |
 | 1891 - 556 páginas
...OP THE WAY OF. 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. Drydtn. DESULTORINESS AND CONNECTION. Desultoriness may often be the mark of a full head ; connection... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1897 - 478 páginas
...three methods that I can think of; whereof the wisdom of our ancestors being highly sensible, has, to 1 But to return, and view the cheerful skies ; In this the task and mighty labour lies. — DRYDEN. encourage all aspiring adventurers, thought fit to erect three wooden machines for the... | |
 | Samuel Chipman Parks - 1900 - 184 páginas
...demonstrated that " 'The gates of hell are open night and day, Smooth's the descent and easy is the way; But to return and view the cheerful skies, In this the task and mighty labor lies.' "An English historian, in speaking of the despotism of Henry the Eighth, says: 'All sense... | |
 | Alice Zimmern - 1906 - 316 páginas
...KINGDOM OF THE DEAD '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." VlkGIL. HE Trojans had left Carthage with a favourable wind, but they were hardly out of sight of land... | |
 | John Milton - 1907 - 276 páginas
...echo of ./£«. vI. 126 — 129, where the Sibyl tells ^Eneas that the descent into Avernus is easy : "But to return, and view the cheerful skies, In this the task and mighty labour lies" (Dryden). The slow monosyllabic rhythm and the alliteration seem intended by Milton to suggest the... | |
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