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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
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“Poesia são pensamentos que respiram, e palavras que queimam.”

Thomas Gray

Thomas Gray: Frases em inglês

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

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Thomas Gray

Fonte: An Elegy Written In A Country Churchyard

“Ruin seize thee, ruthless King!
Confusion on thy banners wait,
Though fanned by Conquest's crimson wing
They mock the air with idle state.”

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Thomas Gray The Bard

I. 1. lines 1-4
The Bard (1757)

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

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Thomas Gray

St. 17 <br class="br"> 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.”

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Thomas Gray

St. 19 <br class="br"> 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.”

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St. 14 <br class="br"> Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard http://www.thomasgray.org/cgi-bin/display.cgi?text=elcc (written 1750, publ. 1751) <br class="br">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.”

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Thomas Gray

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

“To each his suff'rings: all are men,
Condemn'd alike to groan,
The tender for another's pain;
Th' unfeeling for his own.
Yet ah! why should they know their fate?
Since sorrow never comes too late,
And happiness too swiftly flies.
Thought would destroy their paradise.
No more; where ignorance is bliss,
'Tis folly to be wise.”

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Thomas Gray

St. 10 <br class="br"> Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College http://www.thomasgray.org/cgi-bin/display.cgi?text=odec (written 1742–1750)

“Behind the steps that Misery treads
Approaching Comfort view:
The hues of bliss more brightly glow
Chastised by sabler tints of woe,
And blended form, with artful strife,
The strength and harmony of life.”

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Thomas Gray

Fonte: Ode on the Pleasure Arising from Vicissitude http://www.thomasgray.org/cgi-bin/display.cgi?text=oopv (1754), Line 35

“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.”

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Thomas Gray

St. 13 <br class="br"> 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.”

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Thomas Gray

St. 9 <br class="br"> 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.”

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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.”

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Thomas Gray

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

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

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Thomas Gray The Bard

I. 3. lines 39-40
The Bard (1757)

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

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Thomas Gray

II. 2, Line 10 <br class="br"> 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.”

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Thomas Gray

St. 23 <br class="br"> 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!”

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Thomas Gray

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.”

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

“Hear from the grave, great Taliessin, hear;
They breathe a soul to animate thy clay.
Bright Rapture calls, and soaring, as she sings,
Waves in the eye of Heav'n her many-colour'd wings.”

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Thomas Gray The Bard

III. 2. lines 121-124
The Bard (1757)

“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.”

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Thomas Gray

St. 1 <br class="br"> 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.”

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I. 1, Line 3 <br class="br"> 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.”

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Thomas Gray

St. 12 <br class="br"> 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.”

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Thomas Gray

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

“Ah, tell them they are men!”

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St. 6 <br class="br"> 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.”

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Thomas Gray

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

“Ye towers of Julius, London's lasting shame,
With many a foul and midnight murder fed.”

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Thomas Gray The Bard

II. 3. lines 87-88
The Bard (1757)

“He passed 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.”

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III. 2, Line 4 <br class="br"> The Progress of Poesy http://www.thomasgray.org/cgi-bin/display.cgi?text=pppo (1754)

“See the wretch that long has tost
On the thorny bed of pain,
At length repair his vigour lost,
And breathe and walk again:
The meanest floweret of the vale,
The simplest note that swells the gale,
The common sun, the air, the skies,
To him are opening paradise.”

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Thomas Gray

Fonte: Ode on the Pleasure Arising from Vicissitude http://www.thomasgray.org/cgi-bin/display.cgi?text=oopv (1754), Line 41

“Or ope the sacred source of sympathetic tears.”

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Thomas Gray

III. 1, Line 12 <br class="br"> 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.”

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Thomas Gray

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