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• Hands that the rod of empire might have sway'd, Or waked to ecstasy the living lyre.

  Thomas Gray

  Life, Hands, Might

  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.201

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• Sorrow's faded form, and solitude behind.

  Thomas Gray

  Solitude, Sorrow, Form

  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.64

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• 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.

  Thomas Gray

  Time, Eye, Soul

  1751 Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, l.49-52.

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• The insect-youth are on the wing,
  Eager to taste the honied spring,
  And float amid the liquid noon!

  Thomas Gray

  Spring, Wings, Taste

  1748 Ode on the Spring, l.25-30.

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• The time will come, when thou shalt lift thine eyes To watch a long-drawn battle in the skies. While aged peasants, too amazed for words, Stare at the flying fleets of wondrous birds.

  Thomas Gray

  Eye, Sky, Long

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• For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing ling'ring look behind?

  Thomas Gray

  Anxiety, Dumb, Cheerful

  'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard' (1751) l. 85

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• And moody madness laughing wild Amid severest woe.

  Thomas Gray

  Laughter, Laughing, Woe

  Thomas Gray (1814). “The poems of Thomas Gray with critical notes, a life of the author... by John Mitford”, p.22

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

  Thomas Gray

  Hope, Sunshine, Gay

  Thomas Gray (1825). “The works of Thomas Gray,: containing his poems and correspondence, with memoirs of his life and writings”, p.16

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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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• To each his suff'rings: all are men, / Condemn'd alike to groan, / The tender for another's pain; / Th' unfeeling for his own.

  Thomas Gray

  Pain, Men, Suffering

  'Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College' (1747) l. 91

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• Scatter plenty o'er a smiling land.

  Thomas Gray

  Land, Charity, Philanthropy

  Thomas Gray (1828). “The Poetical Works of Thomas Gray: With an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author”, p.64

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• The Attic warbler pours her throat, Responsive to the cuckoo's note, The untaught harmony of spring.

  Thomas Gray

  Spring, Cuckoos, Harmony

  'Ode on the Spring' (1748) l. 5

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• Bright-eyed Fancy, hov'ring o'er, Scatters from her pictured urn Thoughts that breathe and words that burn.

  Thomas Gray

  Fancy, Breathe, Rings

  Thomas Gray (1859). “The Poetical Works of Thomas Gray”

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• Ah, tell them they are men!

  Thomas Gray

  Men

  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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• 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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• Rich with the spoils of time.

  Thomas Gray

  Time, Rich, Spoil

  1751 Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, l.49-52.

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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

  Air, Wind, Sea

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