Thomas Gray
Poet, 1716-1771
Cited as Gray. — 63 quotations
Adnate
An anther is adnate when fixed by its whole length to the filament.
Afield
How jocund did they drive their team afield!
Annals
The short and simple annals of the poor.
Bray
Heard ye the din of battle bray?
Colored
Colored, meaning, as applied to foliage, of some other color than green.
Condemn
To each his sufferings; all are men, Condemned alike to groan.
Confusion
Ruin seize thee, ruthless king, Confusion on thy banners wait.
Consolidated
Consolidated plants are evidently adapted and designed for very dry regions; in such only they are found.
Crease
Creased, like dog's ears in a folio.
Desert
Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air.
Devote
A leafless and simple branch . . . devoted to the purpose of climbing.
Divine
But not to one in this benighted age Is that diviner inspiration given.
Due
With dirges due, in sad array, Slow through the churchway path we saw him borne.
Gay
Gay hope is theirs by fancy fed.
Hauberk
Helm, nor hawberk's twisted mail.
Heave
Where heaves the turf in many a moldering heap.
Helicon
From Helicon's harmonious springs A thousand rills their mazy progress take.
Herd
The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea.
Homely
Their homely joys, and destiny obscure.
Horn-mad
Did I tell you about Mr. Garrick, that the town are horn-mad after?
Hours
Lo! where the rosy-blosomed Hours, Fair Venus' train, appear.
Hunks
Pray make your bargain with all the prudence and selfishness of an old hunks.
Ignoble
Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife.
Impute
Nor you, ye proud, impute to these the fault, If memory o'er their tomb no trophies raise.
Incense
Or heap the shrine of luxury and pride, With incense kindled at the Muse's flame.
Inglorious
Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest.
Knell
The curfew tolls the knell of parting day.
Lea
The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea.
Lick
A lick of court whitewash.
Linger
Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind.
Low
The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea.
Madding
Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife.
Mock
Let not ambition mock their useful toil.
Natural
It should be borne in mind that the natural system of botany is natural only in the constitution of its genera, tribes, orders, etc., and in its grand divisions.
path
The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
Peep
Oft have we seen him at the peep of dawn.
Perpetuable
Varieties are perpetuable, like species.
Plod
The ploughman homeward plods his weary way.
Poking
Bred to some poking profession.
Provoke
Can honor's voice provoke the silent dust?
Quality
I made that inquiry in quality of an antiquary.
Redolent
Gales . . . redolent of joy and youth.
Rely
On some fond breast the parting soul relies.
Revenue
Do not anticipate your revenues and live upon air till you know what you are worth.
Rude
the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.
Rustic
And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die.
Scrawl
You bid me write no more than a scrawl to you.
Sequestered
Along the cool, sequestered vale of life.
Serene
Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear.
Storied
Can storied urn, or animated bust, Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath?
Sturdy
How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke!
Sympathetic
Ope the sacred source of sympathetic tears.
Tenor
Along the cool sequestered vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their away.
Tinkling
Drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds.
Transcribbler
He [Aristotle] has suffered vastly from the transcribblers, as all authors of great brevity necessarily must.
Tribute
Implores the passing tribute of a sigh.
The swallow twittering from the straw-built shed.
Unfeeling
To each his sufferings: all are men, Condemned alike to groan; The tender for another's pain, Th' unfeeling for his own.
Vault
The long-drawn aisle and fretted vault.
Waste
Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air.
Willowy
Where willowy Camus lingers with delight.
Wind
The lowing herd wind lowly o'er the lea.
Withstand
Some village Hampden, that, with dauntless breast. The little tyrant of his fields withstood.