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)

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

    “One sorry fret,
    An anvill Sparke, rose higher,
    And in thy Temple falling, almost set
    The house on fire.
    Such fireballs dropping in the Temple Flame
    Burns up the building: Lord, forbid the same.”
    —Edward Taylor (1645–1729)