Mount Pleasant Road

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

    But mount to paradise
    By the stairway of surprise.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    What slender youth, bedewed with liquid odours
    Courts thee on roses in some pleasant cave,
    Pyrrha? For whom bind’st thou
    In wreaths thy golden hair,
    Plain in thy neatness?
    Horace [Quintus Horatius Flaccus] (65–8 B.C.)

    It is a happy thing that there is no royal road to poetry. The world should know by this time that one cannot reach Parnassus except by flying thither.
    Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889)