What did Thomas Gray mean by: Chill penury repress’d their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the soul. - Thomas Gray Poet · England Copy
+ Nor grandeur hear with a disdainful smile The short and simple annals of the poor. Explain Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023February 5, 2024, Thomas Gray, Poor, Simple, Simplicity, 0 - Thomas Gray Poet · England
+ Men will believe anything at all provided they are under no obligation to believe it. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Thomas Gray, Belief, Believe, 0 - Thomas Gray Poet · England
+ One principal characteristic of vice in the present age is the contempt of fame. Explain Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023February 6, 2024, Thomas Gray, Age, Fame, Vices, 0 - Thomas Gray Poet · England
+ When love could teach a monarch to be wise, And gospel-light first dawn’d from Bullen’s eyes. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Thomas Gray, Eye, Love, Wise, 0 - Thomas Gray Poet · England
+ The hues of bliss more brightly glow, Chastis’d by sabler tints of woe. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Thomas Gray, Bliss, Woe, 0 - Thomas Gray Poet · England
+ If the best man’s faults were written on his forehead, he would draw his hat over his eyes. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Thomas Gray, Eye, Hate, 0 - Thomas Gray Poet · England
+ Visions of glory, spare my aching sight! Ye unborn ages, crowd not on my soul! Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Thomas Gray, Sight, Soul, Vision, 0 - Thomas Gray Poet · England
+ Dear as the light that visits these sad eyes, Dear as the ruddy drops that warm my heart. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Thomas Gray, Eye, Heart, 0 - Thomas Gray Poet · England
We never love with all our heart and all our soul but once, and that is the first time. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Again I entered my smithy to work and forge something from the noble material of time past. - Jean Froissart Historian · Belgium
Love makes use of the worst traps. The least noble. The rarest. It exploits coincidence. - Jean Genet Playwright · France
Poverty is the only load which is the heavier the more loved ones there are to assist in bearing it. - Jean Paul Writer · Germany
A noble heart cannot suspect in others the pettiness and malice that it has never felt. - Jean Racine Playwright · France
