Frases de Thomas Gray

Thomas Gray , poeta e romancista inglês.

Iniciou seus estudos em Eton College e no Colégio São Pedro de Cambridge, onde se tornou amigo dos escritores Horace Walpole e Richard West. Deixou Cambridge em 1738 e acompanhou Walpole em uma viagem pelo continente durante o ano seguinte. Juntos, visitaram a França e a Itália, onde se desentenderam e Gray foi para Veneza, retornando à Inglaterra por ocasião da morte de seu pai.

Em 1744 reconciliou-se com Walpole e em 1750 concluiu sua Elegia escrita num cemitério camponês, obra esta iniciada muitos anos antes. Em 1757, recusou a distinção de poeta laureado. Após a abertura do Museu Inglês, em 1759, Gray passou a morar em Londres para poder estudar as obras expostas. Em 1768, foi nomeado professor de história moderna em Cambridge.

A obra literária de Gray é pouco volumosa mas a boa qualidade de seus escritos compensa esse fato. A Elegia é a mais popular e, talvez, a melhor de suas obras. Liga-se à corrente da poesia das tumbas, inaugurada por Edward Young, influência esta que também se encontra nas odes pindáricas: Os progressos da poesia, O bardo, ode profética e outras. Wikipedia  

✵ 26. Dezembro 1716 – 30. Julho 1771   •   Outros nomes توماس قری, توماس غراي
Thomas Gray photo
Thomas Gray: 82   citações 0   Curtidas

Thomas Gray frases e citações

Thomas Gray: Frases em inglês

“The paths of glory lead but to the grave.”

Fonte: An Elegy Written In A Country Churchyard

“Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne,
And shut the gates of mercy on mankind.”

St. 17
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard http://www.thomasgray.org/cgi-bin/display.cgi?text=elcc (written 1750, publ. 1751)

“Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife,
Their sober wishes never learned to stray;
Along the cool sequestered vale of life
They kept the noiseless tenor of their way.”

St. 19
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard http://www.thomasgray.org/cgi-bin/display.cgi?textelcc (written 1750, publ. 1751)

“Full many a gem of purest ray serene,
The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear:
Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,
And waste its sweetness on the desert air.”

St. 14
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard http://www.thomasgray.org/cgi-bin/display.cgi?text=elcc (written 1750, publ. 1751)
Fonte: An Elegy Written In A Country Churchyard

“Hark, his hands the lyre explore!
Bright-eyed Fancy hovering o'er
Scatters from her pictured urn
Thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.”

III. 3, Line 2
The Progress of Poesy http://www.thomasgray.org/cgi-bin/display.cgi?textpppo (1754)
Fonte: Selected Poems

“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.”

St. 13
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard http://www.thomasgray.org/cgi-bin/display.cgi?text=elcc (written 1750, publ. 1751)

“The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r,
And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave,
Await alike the inevitable hour:
The paths of glory lead but to the grave.”

St. 9
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard http://www.thomasgray.org/cgi-bin/display.cgi?text=elcc (written 1750, publ. 1751)

“While bright-eyed Science watches round.”

Ode for Music http://www.thomasgray.org/cgi-bin/display.cgi?text=ocmu (1769), Chorus, line 3

“Rich windows that exclude the light,
And passages that lead to nothing.”

A Long Story; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Her track, where'er the goddess roves,
Glory pursue, and gen'rous shame,
Th' unconquerable mind, 3 and freedom's holy flame.”

II. 2, Line 10
The Progress of Poesy http://www.thomasgray.org/cgi-bin/display.cgi?text=pppo (1754)

“E'en from the tomb the voice of Nature cries,
E'en in our Ashes live their wonted Fires.”

St. 23
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard http://www.thomasgray.org/cgi-bin/display.cgi?text=elcc (written 1750, publ. 1751)

“Now my weary lips I close;
Leave me, leave me to repose!”

Descent of Odin http://www.thomasgray.org/cgi-bin/display.cgi?text=dooo, Line 71 (1761)

“Beyond the limits of a vulgar fate,
Beneath the good how far,—but far above the great.”

III. 3, Line 16
The Progress of Poesy http://www.thomasgray.org/cgi-bin/display.cgi?text=pppo (1754)

“The Curfew tolls the knell of parting day,
The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea,
The plowman homeward plods his weary way,
And leaves the world to darkness and to me.”

St. 1
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard http://www.thomasgray.org/cgi-bin/display.cgi?text=elcc (written 1750, publ. 1751)

“From Helicon's harmonious springs
A thousand rills their mazy progress take.”

I. 1, Line 3
The Progress of Poesy http://www.thomasgray.org/cgi-bin/display.cgi?text=pppo (1754)

“Hands, that the rod of empire might have swayed,
Or waked to ecstasy the living lyre.”

St. 12
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard http://www.thomasgray.org/cgi-bin/display.cgi?text=elcc (written 1750, publ. 1751)

“No farther seek his merits to disclose,
Or draw his frailties from their dread abode,
(There they alike in trembling hope repose,)
The bosom of his Father and his God.”

The Epitaph, St. 3
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard http://www.thomasgray.org/cgi-bin/display.cgi?text=elcc (written 1750, publ. 1751)
Variante: No farther seek his merits to disclose,
Or draw his frailties from their dread abode,
(There they alike in trembling hope repose,)
The bosom of his Father and his God.

“Ah, tell them they are men!”

St. 6
Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College http://www.thomasgray.org/cgi-bin/display.cgi?text=odec (written 1742–1750)

“Gay hope is theirs by fancy fed,
Less pleasing when possest;
The tear forgot as soon as shed,
The sunshine of the breast.”

St. 5
Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College http://www.thomasgray.org/cgi-bin/display.cgi?text=odec (written 1742–1750)

“Or ope the sacred source of sympathetic tears.”

III. 1, Line 12
The Progress of Poesy http://www.thomasgray.org/cgi-bin/display.cgi?text=pppo (1754)

“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 hist'ry in a nation's eyes.”

St. 16
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard http://www.thomasgray.org/cgi-bin/display.cgi?text=elcc (written 1750, publ. 1751)