Thomas Gray Quotes About Life

Quotes about: Life

• Along the cool sequestered vale of life,
  They kept the noiseless tenour of their way.

  Thomas Gray

  Life, 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.

  Thomas Gray

  Life, Heart, Eye

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

• O'er her warm cheek, and rising bosom, move
  The bloom of young Desire and purple light of love.

  Thomas Gray

  Love, Life, Moving

  Thomas Gray (1836). “The works of Thomas Gray (ed. by J. Mitford).”, p.27

• Hands that the rod of empire might have sway'd, Or waked to ecstasy the living lyre.

  Thomas Gray

  Life, Hands, Might

  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

• 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)

• Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way.

  Thomas Gray

  Life, Learning, Wish

  Thomas Gray, William Mason (1820). “The poems and letters of Thomas Gray, with memoirs of his life and writings by W. Mason”, p.494

• Man's feeble race what ills await!
  Labour, and Penury, the racks of Pain,
  Disease, and Sorrow's weeping train,
  And Death, sad refuge from the storms of Fate!

  Thomas Gray

  Life, Pain, Fate

  Thomas Gray (1836). “The works of Thomas Gray (ed. by J. Mitford).”, p.28

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