Alas, regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come, nor care beyond today.
About Thomas Gray
Thomas Graywas an English poet, letter-writer, and classical scholar at Cambridge University, being a fellow first of Peterhouse then of Pembroke College. He is widely known for his Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, published in 1751.
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He gave to misery (all he had) a tear.
English poet and classical scholar (1716-1771)
Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune, he had not the method of making a fortune.
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Youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms.
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‘Tis folly to be wise.
English poet and classical scholar (1716-1771)
Alas, regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come, nor care beyond today.
English poet and classical scholar (1716-1771)
I shall be but a shrimp of an author.
English poet and classical scholar (1716-1771)
Where ignorance is bliss, ‘Tis folly to be wise.
English poet and classical scholar (1716-1771)
And weep the more, because I weep in vain.
English poet and classical scholar (1716-1771)
Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.
English poet and classical scholar (1716-1771)
Commerce changes the fate and genius of nations.
English poet and classical scholar (1716-1771)
If the best man’s faults were written on his forehead, he would draw his hat over his eyes.
English poet and classical scholar (1716-1771)
The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
English poet and classical scholar (1716-1771)
Visions of glory, spare my aching sight.
English poet and classical scholar (1716-1771)