Thomas Gray Quotes About Age

Quotes about: Age

• Visions of glory, spare my aching sight! Ye unborn ages, crowd not on my soul!

  Thomas Gray

  Sight, Soul, Vision

  Thomas Gray, John Mitford (1816). “The poems, with critical notes, a life of the author, and an essay on his poetry, by J. Mitford”, p.61

• One principal characteristic of vice in the present age is the contempt of fame.

  Thomas Gray

  Age, Vices, Fame

  Thomas Gray, John MITFORD (Vicar of Benhall.) (1866). “The Poetical Works of Thomas Gray. [With “The Life of Thomas Gray. By John Mitford”.]”, p.152

• The language of the age is never the language of poetry, except among the French, whose verse, where the thought or image does not support it, differs in nothing from prose.

  Thomas Gray

  Support, Age, Doe

  Letter to West, 8 April 1742, in H. W. Starr (ed.) 'Correspondence of Thomas Gray' (1971) vol. 1, letter 103

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