Viscount Stair

Famous quotes containing the words viscount and/or stair:

    Once is orthodox, twice is puritanical.
    William Lamb Melbourne, 2nd Viscount (1779–1848)

    I declare this tower is my symbol; I declare
    This winding, gyring, spiring treadmill of a stair is my ancestrail stair;
    That Goldsmith and the Dean, Berkeley and Burke have travelled there.
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)