Thomas Gray Quotes About Eyes

Quotes about: Eyes

• Not all that tempts your wandering eyes
  And heedless hearts, is lawful prize;
  Nor all that glisters gold.

  Thomas Gray

  Heart, Eye, Gold

  "Ode on the Death of a Favorite Cat" l. 40 (1748)

• The applause of list'ning senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes.

  Thomas Gray

  Pain, Eye, Land

  Thomas Gray, John Mitford (1816). “The poems, with critical notes; a life of the author; and an essay on his poetry; by the Rev. John Mitford”, p.116

• Dear as the light that visits these sad eyes,
  Dear as the ruddy drops that warm my heart.

  Thomas Gray

  Life, Heart, Eye

  1757 The Bard. A Pindaric Ode, l.40-2.

• The time will come, when thou shalt lift thine eyes To watch a long-drawn battle in the skies. While aged peasants, too amazed for words, Stare at the flying fleets of wondrous birds.

  Thomas Gray

  Eye, Sky, Long

• But knowledge to their eyes her ample page Rich with the spoils of time did ne'er unroll; Chill Penury repressed their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the soul.

  Thomas Gray

  Time, Eye, Soul

  1751 Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, l.49-52.

• He pass'd the flaming bounds of place and time: The living throne, the sapphire blaze, Where angels tremble while they gaze, He saw; but blasted with excess of light, Closed his eyes in endless night.

  Thomas Gray

  Life, Eye, Angel

  'The Progress of Poesy' (1757) l. 95 (on Milton)

• When love could teach a monarch to be wise, And gospel-light first dawn'd from Bullen's eyes.

  Thomas Gray

  Love, Wise, Eye

  Thomas Gray, John Mitford (1836). “Poetical Works”, p.149

• If the best man's faults were written on his forehead, he would draw his hat over his eyes.

  Thomas Gray

  Hate, Eye, Men

• To contemplation's sober eye,
  Such is the race of man;
  And they that creep, and they that fly,
  Shall end where they began,
  Alike the busy and the gay,
  But flutter through life's little day.

  Thomas Gray

  Eye, Gay, Men

  John Milton, Edward Young, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, William Collins (1836). “The Poetical Works of Milton, Young, Gray, Beattie, and Collins”, p.251

• To Contemplation's sober eye. / Such is the race of Man.

  Thomas Gray

  Eye, Men, Race

  Thomas Gray (1814). “The poems of Thomas Gray with critical notes, a life of the author... by John Mitford”, p.6

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