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Raven: The Reverend Mr Larynx has been called off on duty, to marry or bury (I don't know which) som...

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Nightmare Abbey

If we go on in this way, we shall have a new art of poetry, of which one of the first rules will be:...

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She discovered, when it was too late, that she had mistaken the means for the end—that riches, right...

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Nightmare Abbey

Raven: The Honourable Mr Listless is gone. He declared that, what with family quarrels in the mornin...

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Nightmare Abbey

On the top of Cadair Idris,I felt how happy a man might bewith a little money and a sane intellect,a...

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He had some taste for romance reading before he went to the university, where, we must confess, in j...

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A mere wilderness, as you see, even now in December; but in summer a complete nursery of briers, a f...

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Headlong Hall

I like the immaterial world. I like to live among thoughts and images of the past and the possible, ...

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Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horse pond.

My thoughts by night are often filled With visions false as fair: For in the past alone I build My ...

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When Scythrop grew up, he was sent, as usual, to a public school, where a little learning was painfu...

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Modern literature is a north-east wind--a blight of the human soul. I take credit to myself for havi...

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Nightmare Abbey

Is ours a government of the people, by the people, for the people, or a kakistocracy rather, for the...

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Thomas Love Peacock

Novelist

Born: 1785-10-18

Died: 1866-01-23

Thomas Love Peacock (18 October 1785 – 23 January 1866) was an English novelist and poet. His conversational novels satirize the philosophical preoccupations of the Romantic era.More