In the third canto of his poem " Villon " ( written 1925, published 1930 ), British modernist poet Basil Bunting stated he took the image of two drops of quicksilver ( Mercury ) merging from Nesbit s " The Story of the Amulet " and described her work as the pleasantest reading of my childhood .
42.
It has been noted that in the period between the Founder's death and when the College was reconstituted in 1857, the chief object of the Master, Warden and Fellows had been to lead the pleasantest life possible with little regard to furthering Alleyn's directions to provide every poor scholar with adequate preparation for the world.
43.
Several of you writers . . . have had passing reference to me as dynamic, boisterous, mad, violent, impatient, and so on, when everybody whom I have ever associated with knows that I am one of the longest-suffering and pleasantest and, at heart, quietest men alive today, a sort of gentile Christ.
44.
Before Keats arrived, he wrote to a friend that " one of the pleasantest means of annulling self is approaching such a shrine as the cottage of Burns & mdash; we need not think of his misery & mdash; that is all gone & mdash; bad luck to it & mdash; I shall look upon it all with unmixed pleasure ."
45.
The secondary characters, who include two rich and marriageable young men, a lecherously gullible English lord and his termagant wife, and a Philadelphia matron who decides to turn herself into a Jazz Age flapper, supply a little romance and assorted comic bits . ( George Dvorsky, as one of the young men, has the pleasantest manner, and David Ponting, as the English lord, has the best timing .)
46.
The band's name is derived from a passage from the Virginia Woolf story " The Mark on the Wall, " which reads, " I wish I could hit upon a pleasant track of thought, a track indirectly reflecting credit upon myself, for those are the pleasantest thoughts, and very frequent even in the minds of modest mouse-coloured people, who believe genuinely that they dislike to hear their own praises ."
47.
So I treasure this from " Wuthering Heights, " which is so famously recollected as a story about winter and storms : " He said the pleasantest manner of spending a hot July day was lying from morning till evening on a bank of heath in the middle of the moors, with the bees humming dreamily about among the bloom, and the larks singing high up over head, and the blue sky and bright sun shining steadily and cloudlessly.
48.
He said, " Of all the methods of travelling I have ever tried this is the pleasantest . . . . You should not think of returning to America without taking this tour I have taken . " The idea of repeating in France what was proving successful in England by converting large barges ( i . e . barges generally designed to fit into the locks of canals with minimal remaining volume ) began in 1966 with the Barge Palinurus, converted from a carrying coal barge called the'Ponctuel'and captained by Richard Parsons on the canals of the Burgundy region of France.
49.
Hoping to impress this on their then-reluctant American cousins executive producer Korda was Churchill's designated agent in the filmic aspect of de-neutralizing America the film began with " shots of Commons, Parliament, the War Office, the India Office, No . 10 Downing Street and other imposing edifices, " as described by Nugent . " As an added touch of dignity and authority, a commentator's voice noted each building as it passed, spoke gravely of the burden of empire, of trade and population statistics, and of the might and wisdom of Britain's leaders & " Nugent expressed relief when this made-for-America preamble turns into the British comedy it originally was, and praised it as " one of the wittiest and pleasantest comedies that have come a capering to the American screen this season ".
