Frases de Thomas Gray
Thomas Gray
Data de nascimento: 26. Dezembro 1716
Data de falecimento: 30. Julho 1771
Outros nomes: توماس غراي, توماس قری
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.
Citações Thomas Gray
„Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife“
St. 19
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard http://www.thomasgray.org/cgi-bin/display.cgi?textelcc (written 1750, publ. 1751)
Contexto: 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.
„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
„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
Contexto: Hark, his hands the lyre explore!
Bright-eyed Fancy hovering o'er
Scatters from her pictured urn
Thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.
„The paths of glory lead but to the grave.“
Fonte: An Elegy Written In A Country Churchyard
„For who to dumb Forgetfulness a prey,
This pleasing anxious being e'er resigned,
Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day,
Nor cast one longing ling'ring look behind?“
St. 22
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard http://www.thomasgray.org/cgi-bin/display.cgi?text=elcc (written 1750, publ. 1751)
„The breezy call of incense-breathing morn.“
St. 5
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard http://www.thomasgray.org/cgi-bin/display.cgi?text=elcc (written 1750, publ. 1751)
„Glance their many-twinkling feet.“
I. 3, Line 11
The Progress of Poesy http://www.thomasgray.org/cgi-bin/display.cgi?text=pppo (1754)
„O'er her warm cheek and rising bosom move
The bloom of young Desire and purple light of Love.“
I. 3, Line 16
The Progress of Poesy http://www.thomasgray.org/cgi-bin/display.cgi?text=pppo (1754)
„Far from the sun and summer-gale,
In thy green lap was Nature's Darling laid.“
III. 1, Line 1
The Progress of Poesy http://www.thomasgray.org/cgi-bin/display.cgi?text=pppo (1754)
„Ye distant spires, ye antique towers,
That crown the wat'ry glade.“
St. 1
Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College http://www.thomasgray.org/cgi-bin/display.cgi?text=odec (written 1742–1750)
„Here rests his head upon the lap of Earth
A youth to Fortune and to Fame unknown.
Fair Science frowned not on his humble birth.
And Melancholy marked him for her own.“
The Epitaph, St. 1
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard http://www.thomasgray.org/cgi-bin/display.cgi?text=elcc (written 1750, publ. 1751)
„Alas, regardless of their doom,
The little victims play!
No sense have they of ills to come,
Nor care beyond today.“
St. 6
Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College http://www.thomasgray.org/cgi-bin/display.cgi?text=odec (written 1742–1750)
„In glittering arms and glory dressed,
High he rears his ruby crest.
There the thundering strokes begin,
There the press and there the din;
Talymalfra's rocky shore
Echoing to the battle's roar.“
"The Triumphs of Owen. A Fragment", from Mr. Evans's Specimens of the Welch Poetry (1764) http://www.thomasgray.org/cgi-bin/display.cgi?text=trow
„Not all that tempts your wandering eyes
And heedless hearts, is lawful prize;
Nor all that glisters gold.“
St. 7
On the Death of a Favourite Cat http://www.thomasgray.org/cgi-bin/display.cgi?text=odfc (1747)
„From toil he wins his spirits light,
From busy day the peaceful night;
Rich, from the very want of wealth,
In heaven's best treasures, peace and health.“
Fonte: Ode on the Pleasure Arising from Vicissitude http://www.thomasgray.org/cgi-bin/display.cgi?text=oopv (1754), Line 93
„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)
„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)
