Mount Pleasant Road

Famous quotes containing the words mount, pleasant and/or road:

    My name shall mount upon Eternitie.
    Michael Drayton (1563–1631)

    Lux my fair falcon, and your fellows all,
    How well pleasant it were your liberty!
    Ye not forsake me that fair might ye befall.
    Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503?–1542)

    In one notable instance, where the United States Army and a hundred years of persuasion failed, a highway has succeeded. The Seminole Indians surrendered to the Tamiami Trail. From the Everglades the remnants of this race emerged, soon after the trail was built, to set up their palm-thatched villages along the road and to hoist tribal flags as a lure to passing motorists.
    —For the State of Florida, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)