Thomas Gray Quote

The different steps and degrees of education may be compared to the artificer's operations upon marble; it is one thing to dig it out of the quarry, and another to square it, to give it gloss and lustre, call forth every beautiful spot and vein, shape it into a column, or animate it into a statue.


The Poems of Mr. Gray: To which are Prefixed Memoirs of His Life and Writings (ed. 1775)


The different steps and degrees of education may be compared to the artificer's operations upon marble; it is one thing to dig it out of the quarry,...

The different steps and degrees of education may be compared to the artificer's operations upon marble; it is one thing to dig it out of the quarry,...

The different steps and degrees of education may be compared to the artificer's operations upon marble; it is one thing to dig it out of the quarry,...

The different steps and degrees of education may be compared to the artificer's operations upon marble; it is one thing to dig it out of the quarry,...