The Works of Thomas Love Peacock: Poems...
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Source: Nightmare Abbey
Source: Selections from Thomas Love Peacock
Source: Nightmare Abbey
Source: The Works of Thomas Love Peacock: Poems and plays. 1931
Source: The Works of Thomas Love Peacock: Poems and plays. 1931
“Laughter is pleasant, but the exertion at my age is too much for me.”
Source: The misfortunes of Elphin
Source: The Genius of the Thames, Palmyra, and Other Poems
Source: The Works of Thomas Love Peacock: Poems and plays. 1931
“Man yields to death; and man's sublimest works Must yield at length to Time.”
Source: The Works of Thomas Love Peacock: Poems and plays. 1931
“Time is lord of thee: Thy wealth, thy glory, and thy name are his.”
Source: The Works of Thomas Love Peacock: Poems and plays. 1931
“I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.”
Source: Maid Marian, and Crotchet Castle
“A book that furnishes no quotations, is me judice, no book, — it is a plaything.”
“The juice of the grape is the liquid quintessence of concentrated sunbeams.”
Source: The Works of Thomas Love Peacock: Including His Novels, Poems, Fugitive Pieces, Criticisms, Etc
Source: The Works of Thomas Love Peacock: Poems and plays. 1931
Source: Headlong hall and Nightmare abbey
“Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horsepond.”
“I almost think it is the ultimate destiny of science to exterminate the human race.”
Source: Gryll grange, by the author of 'Headlong hall'.
Source: Gryll grange, by the author of 'Headlong hall'.
“Tea, late dinners and the French Revolution. I cannot exactly see the connection of ideas.”
Source: Nightmare Abbey: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition
“But still my fancy wanders free Through that which might have been.”
Source: The Works of Thomas Love Peacock: Poems and plays. 1931
“Names are changed more readily than doctrines, and doctrines more readily than ceremonies.”
Source: The misfortunes of Elphin, by the author of Headlong hall
Source: Headlong hall and Nightmare abbey
“The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity.”
Source: The Works of Thomas Love Peacock: Including His Novels, Poems, Fugitive Pieces, Criticisms, Etc
“Clouds on clouds, in volumes driven, curtain round the vault of heaven.”
Source: Rhododaphne: Or, The Thessalian Spell: A Poem
Source: Maid Marian, and Crotchet Castle
Source: Nightmare Abbey
Source: Four Ages of Poetry: Shelley's Defence of Poetry. Browning's Essay on Shelley. Edited by H.F.B. Brett-Smith