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The Works of Thomas Love Peacock

Peacock, Thomas Love (1785-1866)

1.

VOLUME ONE HEADLONG HALL

2.

VOLUME TWO MELINCOURT

3.

VOLUME THREE NIGHTMARE ABBEY AND MAID MARIAN

4.

VOLUME FOUR THE MISFORTUNES OF ELPHIN AND CROTCHET CASTLE

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VOLUME FIVE GRYLL GRANGE

6.

VOLUME SIX POEMS

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VOLUME SEVEN POEMS AND PLAYS

PAPER MONEY LYRICS, AND OTHER POEMS.

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MISCELLANEOUS POEMS

LETTER TO HIS MOTHER 14 FEBRUARY 1795

LETTER TO ROBERT WALROND 25 SEPTEMBER 1795

ANSWER TO THE QUESTION “Is History or Biography the more improving Study?”

THE MAN OF FASHION

LETTER TO HIS GRANDMOTHER 16 JULY 1801

LETTER TO HIS GRANDFATHER 11 AUGUST 1801

FROM THE REVELATIONS

ON THE DEATH OF SIR RALPH ABERCROMBY

PARAPHRASE FROM THE SEVENTEENTH CHAPTER OF ISAIAH

ON THE DEATH OF A LAP DOG CALL'D LADY

IMITATED FROM OSSIAN

ON A LAP DOG OF MISS --- NAM'D QUISI

“WITH TRUEST REPENTANCE”

PADDY'S LAMENTATION

ON THE FIRST LEAF OF THE BOOK OF THE AUTHOR'S POEMS WRITTEN AND PRESENTED TO L.O.

TO A FRIEND AT GUERNSEY

THE MONKS OF ST. MARK

“WHEN HOPE HER WARM TINTS ON THE FUTURE SHALL CAST”

TO MRS. DE ST. CROIX

LETTER TO HARRY SEDGWICK 26 DECEMBER 1805

THE VIGILS OF FANCY

‘I DUG, BENEATH THE CYPRESS SHADE”

ADDRESS SPOKEN BY LIEUTENANT LASCELLES,

ADDRESS WRITTEN BY MR. PEACOCK AND SPOKEN BY LT. HAVERFIELD

OCCASIONAL PROLOGUE TO THE COMEDY OF WILD OATS,

THE ART OF THE MODERN DRAMA

FAREWELL TO MEIRION

PHÆDRA AND NURSE.

CHORAL ODE TO LOVE.

CONNUBIAL EQUALITY

CHORAL ODE ON THE EVILS OF LIFE

“OH BLEST ARE THEY, AND THEY ALONE”

LAW OF NECESSITY

AL MIO PRIMIERO AMORE

LINES TO A FAVOURITE LAUREL

PROLOGUE TO MR. TOBIN'S COMEDY OF THE GUARDIANS, PERFORMED AT THE THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY LANE, NOVEMBER, 1816

EPILOGUE TO THE COMEDY OF THE GUARDIANS

“FROM TEN TO ELEVEN”

A BILL FOR THE BETTER PROMOTION OF OPPRESSION ON THE SABBATH DAY

MARGARET LOVE PEACOCK

TRANSLATION OF AN INSCRIPTION PLACED UNDER THE FIRST STONE OF THE LONDON-UNIVERSITY

“OH NOSE OF WAX! TRUE SYMBOL OF THE MIND”

A SPEECH IN EMBRYO

“WHEN JOHN OF ZISCA WENT TO KINGDOM COME”

THE LEGEND OF MANOR HALL

LINES ON THE DEATH OF JULIA

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A GOODLYE BALLADE OF LITTLE JOHN

1.

Fytte the First

2.

Fytte the Second

IN REMEMBRANCE OF FORTY-FOUR YEARS AGO

“THE BRIEFEST PART OF LIFE'S UNCERTAIN DAY”

LETTER TO LORD BROUGHTON

“INSTEAD OF SITTING WRAPPED UP IN FLANNEL”

CASTLES IN THE AIR

AHRIMANES AND Other Verse Fragments

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The children of Edward stood up in the fray,
But, touched by cruel Richard, they vanished away;
Who, knowing none loved him, resolved all should fear him,
And therefore knocked every one down who was near him.
Till him in his turn Harry Richmond assailed,
And at once, on his downfall, good order prevailed;

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And Richmond uplifted, to prove the strife ended,
A wreath where the white and red roses were blended.

Edward V. and his brother, the Duke of York, died while children, supposed to have been murdered in the Tower by order of their uncle Richard.

Richard III., a cruel and sanguinary tyrant.

Conquered in the battle of Bosworth by Henry of Richmond, afterwards Henry VII.

Being himself of the house of Lancaster, married Elizabeth, sister of Edward V., who was of the house of York; thus uniting the two houses, and ending the civil wars.