Thomas Gray quotes - page 4

Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows, While proudly riding o'er the azure realm In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes; Youth on the prow, and Pleasure at the helm; Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway, That, hushed in grim repose, expects his evening prey. (Thomas Gray)
Comus and his midnight crew. View quote
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Grim-visaged comfortless Despair. View quote
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Weave the warp, and weave the woof, The winding sheet of Edward's race. Give ample room and verge enough, The Characters of hell to trace. View quote
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Where his glowing eye−balls turn, Thousand banners round him burn. Where he points his purple spear, Hasty, hasty Rout is there, Marking with indignant eye Fear to stop and shame to fly. There Confusion, Terror's child, Conflict fierce and Ruin wild, Agony that pants for breath, Despair and honourable Death. View quote
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Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure; Nor Grandeur hear with a disdainful smile, The short and simple annals of the poor. View quote
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No dolphin came, no Nereid stirred; Nor cruel Tom, nor Susan heard. A favourite has no friend! View quote
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Helm nor hauberk's twisted mail, Nor even thy virtues, tyrant, shall avail To save thy secret soul from nightly fears, From Cambria's curse, from Cambria's tears! View quote
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Far from the sun and summer-gale, In thy green lap was Nature's Darling laid. View quote
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Hell is full of good intentions. View quote
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As to posterity, I may ask what has it ever done to oblige me? (Thomas Gray)
England, so long mistress of the sea, Where winds and waves confess her sovereignty, Her ancient triumphs yet on high shall bear And reign the sovereign of the conquered air. View quote
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Commerce changes the fate and genius of nations. View quote
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Visions of glory, spare my aching sight. View quote
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Men will believe anything at all provided they are under no obligation to believe it. View quote
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The different steps and degrees of education may be compared to the artificer's operations upon marble; it is one thing to dig it out of the quarry, and another to square it, to give it gloss and lustre, call forth every beautiful spot and vein, shape it into a column, or animate it into a statue. View quote
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