Thomas Gray cytaty

Thomas Gray – poeta angielski doby neoklasycyzmu, filolog angielski, profesor historii na Cambridge University.

Urodził się w Londynie. Edukację zdobył w Eton College, a następnie Peterhouse i Pembroke College w Cambridge. Zaproponowano mu także stanowisko poety nadwornego na dworze królewskim w Londynie, którego jednak nie przyjął. Był jednym z najmniej płodnych poetów angielskich; podczas jego życia opublikowano utwory zajmujące łącznie mniej niż 1000 wersów, jednak uznawany jest obok Williama Collinsa za najlepszego poetę XVIII w. Jego wiersze są filozoficzne, nastrojowe i melancholijne. Pod koniec życia odbył podróż do Szkocji, co spowodowało fascynację kulturą ludową, widoczną w ostatnich utworach poety. Gray interesował się też, na długo przed prerafaelitą Williamem Morrisem najdawniejszą kulturą narodów nordyckich i celtyckich.

Jest autorem jednego z najczęściej cytowanych utworów literatury angielskiej – Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard . Utwór ten tłumaczyli na język polski Jerzy Pietrkiewicz i Stanisław Barańczak.

Uważany za jednego z prekursorów romantyzmu. Inny znany utwór jego autorstwa to Ode on the Death of Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes.

✵ 26. Grudzień 1716 – 30. Lipiec 1771  •  Natępne imiona توماس قری, توماس غراي
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Thomas Gray cytaty

„Gdzie niewiedza jest rozkoszą,
Szaleństwem jest być mądrym.”

Thomas Gray

Źródło: Świat nawiedzany przez demony

„Myśli, które oddychają, i słowa, które palą.”

Thomas Gray

Źródło: Ciemnia

Thomas Gray: Cytaty po angielsku

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

Thomas Gray

Źródło: An Elegy Written In A Country Churchyard

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

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.”

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.”

Thomas Gray

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">Źródło: 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.”

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">Źródło: Selected Poems

“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

Źródło: 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.”

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.”

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.”

Thomas Gray

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.”

Thomas Gray

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

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

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.”

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!”

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.”

Thomas Gray

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

“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.”

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.”

Thomas Gray

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.”

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.”

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">Wariant: 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!”

Thomas Gray

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.”

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)

“Or ope the sacred source of sympathetic tears.”

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.”

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)

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