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I don't suppose he'd want to if he could. 'There but for the grace of God goes' you or I. I think the facilis descensus to the gutter is almost preferable." "So you've shown him to me as a dreadful warning, have you, Tommy?" mused Banneker aloud. "Get out of it, Ban; get out of it." "Why don't you get out of it yourself?" "Inertia. Or cowardice. And then, I haven't come to the turning-point yet.
There is something about it in Latin, beginning: "Facilis descensus." So there was the drakling, fast by the silly tail of it, and there was Edmund very busy and important and very pleased with himself, hurrying back to the cockatrice. "Now," said he. "Well, now," said the cockatrice. "Go to the mouth of the cave and laugh at the dragon so that she hears you."
Facilis descensus Averni! To paint, one must at least know how to mix colours and handle a brush; to compose, one must be familiar with the meaning of strayed spiders' legs on curious parallel bars, and there are strange disconcerting rumours of "orchestration." But to produce literature you have simply to dip pen in ink or open your mouth and see what God will give you.
The other knew then that the hour had come to set his seal to the bargain: and equally, that if at this eleventh hour he would return, the path was open. But facilis known is the rest, and the grip which a strong nature gains on a weaker, and how hardly fear, once admitted, is cast out.
Martial has given us a very pretty picture of one of this species, in the following epigram: Difficilis, facilis, jucundus, acerbus es idem, Nec tecum possum vivere, nec sine te. Ep. xii. 47. In all thy humours, whether grave or mellow, Thou'rt such a touchy, testy, pleasant fellow; Hast so much wit, and mirth, and spleen about thee, There is no living with thee, nor without thee.
"Lopez, I say!" continued he, calling louder. "Aca, aca!" "Lopez, these I perceive are gentlemen of rank, and we must send them out of the world a little more gracefully, do you hear?" "Yes, Captain," answered the other, with stoical composure. "Over the cliffs, Lopez. Facilis descensus Averni but you don't understand Latin, Lopez. Over the cliffs, do you hear? You understand that?"
As he approached the entrance to that den of infamy, from which his mind recoiled even while in the act of taking shelter there, his pace slackened, while the steep and broken stairs reminded him of the facilis descensus Averni, and rendered him doubtful whether it were not better to brave the worst which could befall him in the public haunts of honourable men, than to evade punishment by secluding himself in those of avowed vice and profligacy.
The Saint has no place for him, and the ruler of the lower regions fears the disturbance that he will make in hell. The quarrel is cut short by the arrival of Clement himself upon the spot, who, finding no entrance into heaven, declares that he will force himself into hell: "Tartara tentemus, facilis descensus Averni."
In poverty "Facilis descensus Averni." But many a poor soldier had sloped down there into the boggy canal of Avernus before him. Nay, he had three corporals and a sergeant for company. But his lot was relieved by two strange things, presently to appear. In 1793 war again broke out, the great French war.
"Infelix ego, non illo qui tempore natus, Quo facilis natura fuit; sors O mea laeva Nascendi, miserumque genus!" &c. but we now see that unless Mr. Andrew Becket had also been produced at that early period, we should have derived no extraordinary degree of satisfaction from witnessing the first appearance of Shakespeare's plays, since it is quite clear that we could not have understood them.
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