“Gray's perfect combination of sentiment and form may justly place him on the pedestal he occupies.”

Praising the marriage of emotional feeling and formal control · Speech, Gray Memorial unveiling, Cambridge, 26 May 1885

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• Beauty
• Poetry

“The poet of passion will always have a depth of sympathy, almost we may say a violence of sympathy, to which the poet of sentiment cannot attain.”

Arguing that passionate poetry can reach emotional depths beyond sentiment alone · Speech, Wordsworth Society, 8 July 1885

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• Poetry

“They never wrote except on matters which they understood.”

Valuing knowledge grounded in genuine understanding · Memorial essay, Edward Cheney

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• Truth