How To Use descensus In A Sentence
- It is all very well to talk about the facilis descensus The Purloined Letter
- To Mr. Sargent and his editors: Facilis descensus Averni. Election Central | Talking Points Memo | Exclusive: Dem Rep To Introduce House Resolution Condemning Rush Limbaugh On Monday
- But he could not foretell that the _descensus Averni_ would be so alarmingly rapid. Essays Towards a Theory of Knowledge
- It is all very well to talk about the _facilis descensus The Short-story
- _Facilis descensus Averno_, and I suppose Mr. Henderson, in his statement, is trying to save me from the inconveniences of this trip. Reveries of a Schoolmaster
- Facilis descensus Averni: Sed revocare gradum, superasque evadere ad auras, Hic labor, hoc opus est. Anatomy of Melancholy
- ‘Facilis descensus Averni!’ said the Duke, shaking his head. The Duke's Children
- This was just after Mr Zachariah Lathrope, the American passenger, had so well illustrated Virgil's line, _facilus descensus averni_, in coming down the stairway by the run, on the top of a "comber;" and, although the steward had lit one of the swinging lamps over the cuddy table, it only served, with its feeble flickering light, to "make the darkness visible" and render the scene more sombre. The Wreck of the Nancy Bell Cast Away on Kerguelen Land
- This one looks at the Classical references in the final, stunning, scene in the film, especially the descensus inferis in Aen VI. Archive 2006-01-01