1st Countess of The Castle of La Mota

Famous quotes containing the words countess and/or castle:

    “And tell so readily, he knoweth well
    How ev’ry star by proper name to call?”
    —Bible: Hebrew Psalm CXLVII (Paraphrased by The Countess of Pembroke)

    “The splendor falls on castle walls
    And snowy summits old in story;
    The long light shakes across the lakes,
    And the wild cataract leaps in glory.
    Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying,
    Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.”
    —Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)