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

  Thomas Gray

  Midnight, Towers, London

  Thomas Gray, John MITFORD (Vicar of Benhall.) (1814). “The Poems of Thomas Gray. With Critical Notes, a Life of the Author, and an Essay on His Poetry, by the Rev. John Mitford”, p.69

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• Grande fue su generosidad, y sincera su alma, El Cielo le recompensó con creces: Dio a la miseria (todo lo que tenía) una lágrima, Ganó del Cielo (que era todo lo que deseaba) un amigo.

  Thomas Gray

  Friendship, Heaven, Soul

  Thomas Gray, “Elegy Written In A Country Churchyard”

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• No further 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.

  Thomas Gray

  Hope, Father, Merit

  1751 Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, l.125-8,'The Epitaph'.

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• Daughter of Jove, relentless power, Thou tamer of the human breast, Whose iron scourge and tort'ring hour The bad affright, afflict the best!

  Thomas Gray

  Daughter, Power, Iron

  Thomas Gray, John Mitford (1816). “The poems, with critical notes; a life of the author; and an essay on his poetry; by the Rev. John Mitford”, p.20

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• There are certain scenes that would awe an atheist into belief, without the help of other argument.

  Thomas Gray

  Atheist, Religion, Helping

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• Sweet is the breath of vernal shower,/ The bee's collected treasure sweet,/ Sweet music's melting fall, but sweeter yet/ The still small voice of gratitude.

  Thomas Gray

  Gratitude, Sweet, Fall

  "Ode for Music" l. 61 (1769)

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• E'en from the tomb the voice of nature cries, E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires.

  Thomas Gray

  Nature, Fire, Voice

  Thomas Gray (1825). “The works of Thomas Gray,: containing his poems and correspondence, with memoirs of his life and writings”, p.124

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• The still small voice of gratitude.

  Thomas Gray

  Gratitude, Voice, Stills

  "Ode for Music" l. 61 (1769)

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• Where'er the oak's thick branches stretch A broader browner shade; Where'er the rude and moss-grown beech O'er-canopies the glade, Beside some water's rushy brink With me the Muse shall sit, and think.

  Thomas Gray

  Thinking, Water, Rude

  1748 Ode on the Spring, l.11-16.

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• 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.

  Thomas Gray

  Views, Comfort, Hue

  Thomas Gray (1825). “The works of Thomas Gray,: containing his poems and correspondence, with memoirs of his life and writings”, p.178

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• 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

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• When love could teach a monarch to be wise, And gospel-light first dawn'd from Bullen's eyes.

  Thomas Gray

  Love, Wise, Eye

  Thomas Gray, John Mitford (1836). “Poetical Works”, p.149

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• Traspasó los límites flamígeros del lugar y del tiempo: El trono viviente, el resplandor de zafiro, donde los ángeles tiemblan mientras miran, Él vio; pero golpeado por el exceso de luz, Cerró sus ojos en la noche sin fin.

  Thomas Gray

  Life, Eye, Angel

  'The Progress of Poesy' (1757) l. 95 (on Milton)

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• The meanest flowret of the vale, / The simplest note that swells the gale, / The common sun, the air, and skies, / To him are opening paradise.

  Thomas Gray

  Air, Sky, Paradise

  Thomas Gray (2014). “Gray's English Poems”, p.58, Cambridge University Press

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• Chill penury repress'd their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the soul.

  Thomas Gray

  Soul, Noble, Poverty

  Thomas Gray, John MITFORD (Vicar of Benhall.) (1814). “The Poems of Thomas Gray. With Critical Notes, a Life of the Author, and an Essay on His Poetry, by the Rev. John Mitford”, p.132

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• Where once my careless childhood strayed, / A stranger yet to pain.

  Thomas Gray

  Pain, Childhood, Innocence

  William Collins, Thomas Gray, Oliver Goldsmith (1871). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Collins, Thomas Gray, and Oliver Goldsmith”

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• 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.

  Thomas Gray

  Aire, viento, mar

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• Now as the Paradisiacal pleasures of the Mahometans consist in playing upon the flute and lying with Houris, be mine to read eternal new romances of Marivaux and Crebillon.

  Thomas Gray

  Lying, Romance, Flutes

  Thomas Gray (1911). “Essays and Criticisms”

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• 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 history in a nation's eyes.

  Thomas Gray

  Pain, Eye, Land

  Thomas Gray, John Mitford (1816). “The poems, with critical notes; a life of the author; and an essay on his poetry; by the Rev. John Mitford”, p.116

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

  Thomas Gray

  Spring, Progress, Brooks

  Thomas Gray (1836). “The works of Thomas Gray (ed. by J. Mitford).”, p.23

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• Su rastro, dondequiera que la diosa vaga, La gloria persigue, y la vergüenza gen'rous, La mente inconquistable, y la llama santa de la libertad.

  Thomas Gray

  Flames, Track, Mind

  Thomas Gray, John Mitford (1816). “The poems, with critical notes; a life of the author; and an essay on his poetry; by the Rev. John Mitford”, p.38

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• Ah, tell them they are men!

  Thomas Gray

  Hombres

  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.166

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• Implores the passing tribute of a sigh.

  Thomas Gray

  Passing, Sigh, Tribute

  Alexander Pope, Mr. Jerningham (Edward), Thomas Gray, Helen Maria Williams, Thomas Percy (1796). “Poems, moral, elegant and pathetic:: viz. Essay on man, by Pope; The monk of La Trappe, by Jerningham; The grave, by Blair; An elegy in a country churchyard, by Gray; The hermit of Warkworth, by Percy; and original sonnets, by Helen Maria Williams”, p.148

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• To Contemplation's sober eye. / Such is the race of Man.

  Thomas Gray

  Eye, Men, Race

  Thomas Gray (1814). “The poems of Thomas Gray with critical notes, a life of the author... by John Mitford”, p.6

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• To brisk notes in cadence beating, glance their many-twinkling feet.

  Thomas Gray

  Feet, Ballet, Cadence

  Thomas Gray, John Mitford (1816). “The poems, with critical notes, a life of the author, and an essay on his poetry, by J. Mitford”, p.33

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