1st Baron Mount Temple

Famous quotes containing the words baron, mount and/or temple:

    “For age with stealing steps
    Hath clawed me with his crutch,”
    —Thomas Vaux, 2d Baron Vaux Of Harrowden (1510–1566)

    “I mount the steps and ring the bell, turning
    Wearily, as one would turn to nod good-bye to Rochefoucauld,
    If the street were time and he at the end of the street,
    And I say, “Cousin Harriet, here is the Boston Evening Transcript.””
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

    “This flea is you and I, and this
    Our mariage bed, and mariage temple is;
    Though parents grudge, and you, w’are met,
    And cloystered in these living walls of Jet.”
    —John Donne (1572–1631)