Thomas Gray Quotes about Life
Thomas Gray (1836). “The works of Thomas Gray (ed. by J. Mitford).”, p.28
Along the cool sequestered vale of life, They kept the noiseless tenour of their way.
Thomas Gray, “Elegy Written In A Country Churchyard”
Dear as the light that visits these sad eyes, Dear as the ruddy drops that warm my heart.
1757 The Bard. A Pindaric Ode, l.40-2.
Thomas Gray, William Mason (1820). “The poems and letters of Thomas Gray, with memoirs of his life and writings by W. Mason”, p.494
'The Progress of Poesy' (1757) l. 95 (on Milton)
Hands that the rod of empire might have sway'd, Or waked to ecstasy the living lyre.
Samuel Johnson, Thomas Parnell, Thomas Gray, Tobias Smollett, George Gilfillan (1855). “The Poetical Works of Johnson: Parnell, Gray, and Smollett, with Memoirs, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes”, p.201
O'er her warm cheek, and rising bosom, move The bloom of young Desire and purple light of love.
Thomas Gray (1836). “The works of Thomas Gray (ed. by J. Mitford).”, p.27
