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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
5.
VOLUME FIVE GRYLL GRANGE
6.
VOLUME SIX POEMS
7.
VOLUME SEVEN POEMS AND PLAYS
RHODODAPHNE:
PAPER MONEY LYRICS, AND OTHER POEMS.
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
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
AHRIMANES AND Other Verse Fragments
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[Drink and sing, and eat and laugh]
Drink and sing, and eat and laugh,
And so go forth to battle:
For the top of a skull and the end of a staff
Do make a ghostly rattle.
The Works of Thomas Love Peacock