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The Works of Thomas Love Peacock

Peacock, Thomas Love (1785-1866)

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VOLUME ONE HEADLONG HALL
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VOLUME TWO MELINCOURT
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VOLUME THREE NIGHTMARE ABBEY AND MAID MARIAN
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VOLUME FOUR THE MISFORTUNES OF ELPHIN AND CROTCHET CASTLE
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VOLUME FIVE GRYLL GRANGE
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VOLUME SIX POEMS
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VOLUME SEVEN POEMS AND PLAYS
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RHODODAPHNE:
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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?”
  
EPIGRAMS
  
LIBERTY
  
PEACE
  
THE MAN OF FASHION
  
LETTER TO HIS GRANDMOTHER 16 JULY 1801
  
LETTER TO HIS GRANDFATHER 11 AUGUST 1801
  
THE STORM
  
FROM THE REVELATIONS
  
ON THE DEATH OF SIR RALPH ABERCROMBY
  
THE ALARMISTS
  
PARAPHRASE FROM THE SEVENTEENTH CHAPTER OF ISAIAH
  
THE COMPARISON
  
ON THE DEATH OF A LAP DOG CALL'D LADY
  
TO MRS. SEWELL
  
IMITATED FROM OSSIAN
  
REBUS
  
ON A LAP DOG OF MISS --- NAM'D QUISI
  
“WITH TRUEST REPENTANCE”
  
PADDY'S LAMENTATION
  
ACROSTIC
  
ON THE FIRST LEAF OF THE BOOK OF THE AUTHOR'S POEMS WRITTEN AND PRESENTED TO L.O.
  
GLEE
  
TO A FRIEND AT GUERNSEY
  
TO MATILDA
  
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
  
TIME
  
THE VIGILS OF FANCY
  
MIDNIGHT
  
‘I DUG, BENEATH THE CYPRESS SHADE”
  
REMEMBER ME
  
ROMANCE
  
ADDRESS SPOKEN BY LIEUTENANT LASCELLES,
  
ADDRESS WRITTEN BY MR. PEACOCK AND SPOKEN BY LT. HAVERFIELD
  
OCCASIONAL PROLOGUE TO THE COMEDY OF WILD OATS,
  
EPILOGUE
  
THE ART OF THE MODERN DRAMA
  
FAREWELL TO MEIRION
  
NECESSITY
  
YOUTH AND AGE
  
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”
  
TOUCHANDGO
  
A SPEECH IN EMBRYO
  
“WHEN JOHN OF ZISCA WENT TO KINGDOM COME”
  
THE LEGEND OF MANOR HALL
  
THE NEW YEAR
  
NEWARK ABBEY
  
LINES ON THE DEATH OF JULIA
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A GOODLYE BALLADE OF LITTLE JOHN
  
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
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AHRIMANES AND Other Verse Fragments

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“THE BRIEFEST PART OF LIFE'S UNCERTAIN DAY”

The briefest part of life's uncertain day,
Youth's lovely blossom, hastes to swift decay:
While love, wine, song, enhance our gayest mood,
Old Age creeps on, nor thought, nor understood.
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