What is north east somerset?

Famous quotes containing the words north, east and/or somerset:

    By the North Gate, the wind blows full of sand,
    Lonely from the beginning of time until now!
    Trees fall, the grass goes yellow with autumn.
    Li Po (701–762)

    Though all the East did quake to hear
    Of Alexander’s dreadful name,
    And all the West likewise did fear
    To hear of Julius Caesar’s fame,
    Robert Southwell (1561?–1595)

    Sentimentality is only sentiment that rubs you up the wrong way.
    —W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1966)