 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 500 pages
...Smooth the dcfcent, and eafy is the way : But to return and view the cheerful ikies; In tliis the tafk and mighty labour lies. DRYDEN'. Suffer me to acquaint you, Sir, that I have glittered at the ball, and fparkled in the circle ; that I have had the happinefs to be the unknown favourite of an unknown lady... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 586 pages
...Smooth the defcent, and eafy is the way : But to return and view the cheerful fkies ; In this the tafk and mighty labour lies. DRYDEN. Suffer me to acquaint you, Sir, that I have glittered at the ball, and fparkled in the circle ; that I have had the happinefs to. be the unknown favourite of an unknown lady... | |
 | Robert Burton - Melancholy - 1801 - 436 pages
...into which they have been plunged by the indulgence of their pleafing but pernicious perturbations. " The gates of hell are open night and day; " Smooth...the cheerful skies, " In this the task and mighty labor lies." Serious*contemplation, induced by that fpecies of folituff^To highly recommended by the... | |
 | George Campbell - English language - 1801 - 462 pages
...eloquence. Here its triumph is truly glorious, and in its application to this end lies its great utility : The gates of hell are open night and day ) Smooth...the way : But to return and view the cheerful skies, j In this the task and mighty labour lies * PR.YDEN. Now in regard to the comparison, from which I... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Biography - 1801 - 462 pages
...Smooth the defcent, and eafy is the way : But to return and view the cheerful fkies ; In this the tafk and mighty labour lies, DRYDEN. Suffer me to acquaint you, Sir, that I have glittered at the ball, and fparkled in the circle ; that I have had the happinefs to be the unknown favourite of an unknown lady... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 498 pages
...labour under two inconveniences. First, That the foundations being laid too high, they have been often * But to return, and view the cheerful skies ; In this the task and mighty labour lies. ancient rule it ought to be the only uncovered vessel in every assembly, where it is rightfully used)... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 488 pages
...labour under two inconveniences. First, That the foundations being laid too high, they have been often * But to return, and view the cheerful skies; In this the task and mighty labour lies. out of sight, and ever out of hearing. Secondly, That the materials, being very transitory, have suffered... | |
 | English literature - 1803 - 296 pages
...atque diespatetatri janaa ditis ; Sed revocare gradum, superasque evadere ad Hoc opus, hie labor est. 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,... | |
 | English literature - 1803 - 322 pages
...indeed open. ........ Facilis descensus Averni, Noctes attjue dies patet atti janua Ditis. Vinoii. The gates of hell are open night and day ; Smooth the descent, and easy is the way. DRYDEH. ' The means of doing hurt to ourselves are always at hand. I immediately sent to a printer,... | |
 | Virgil - Agriculture - 1803 - 408 pages
...holy altar laid. Then thus reply'd the prophetess divine: "O goddess-born, of great Anchiscs' line! The gates of hell are open night and day; •• ' Smooth the descent, and easy is the way: -f But, to return, and view the cheerful skies — In this the task and mighty labour lies. 195 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. 
