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Clouds on clouds, in volumes driven, Curtain round the vault of heaven.
Thomas Love Peacock, Rhododaphne, Canto V, line 257. |
My quarrel with him is, that his works contain nothing worth quoting; and a book that furnishes no quotations, is, me judice [in my opinion], no book - it is a plaything.
Thomas Love PeacockHe bore a simple wild-flower wreath: Narcissus, and the sweet brier rose; Vervain, and flexile thyme, that breathe Rich fragrance; modest heath, that glows With purple bells; the amaranth bright, That no decay, nor fading knows, Like true love's holiest, rarest light; And every purest flower, that blows In that sweet time, which Love most blesses, When spring on summer's confines presses.
Thomas Love PeacockMarriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horsepond.
Thomas Love PeacockLaughter ispleasant, butthe exertion istoomuchfor me.
Thomas Love PeacockSir, I have quarrelled with my wife; and a man who has quarrelled with his wife is absolved from all duty to his country.
Thomas Love PeacockThe mountain sheep are sweeter, But the valley sheep are fatter; We therefore deemed it meeter To carry off the latter. We made an expedition; We met a host, and quelled it; We forced a strong position, And killed the men who held it.
Thomas Love PeacockBut though first love's impassioned blindness Has passed away in colder light, I still have thought of you with kindness, And shall do, till our last goodnight. The ever-rolling silent hours Will bring a time we shall not know, When our young days of gathering flowers Will be an hundred years ago.
Thomas Love PeacockMarriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horsepond.
Thomas Love PeacockThe waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity.
Thomas Love PeacockWhen Scythrop grew up, he was sent, as usual, to a public school, where a little learning was painfully beaten into him, and from thence to the university, where it was carefully taken out of him.
Thomas Love PeacockRespectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called decent.
Thomas Love PeacockI never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Thomas Love PeacockI almost think it is the ultimate destiny of science to exterminate the human race.
Thomas Love PeacockIn a bowl to sea went wise men three, On a brilliant night in June: They carried a net, and their hearts were set On fishing up the moon.
Thomas Love PeacockHow troublesome is day! It calls us from our sleep away; It bids us from our pleasant dreams awake, And sends us forth to keep or break Our promises to pay. How troublesome is day!
Thomas Love PeacockMy thoughts by night are often filled with visions false as fair. For in the past alone, I build my castles in the air.
Thomas Love PeacockMarriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horsepond.
Thomas Love PeacockTime, the foe of man's dominion, Wheels around in ceaseless flight, Scattering from his hoary pinion Shades of everlasting night.
Thomas Love PeacockThe present is our own; but while we speak, We cease from its possession, and resign The stage we tread on, to another race, As vain, and gay, and mortal as ourselves.
Thomas Love PeacockMan yields to death; and man's sublimest works Must yield at length to Time.
Thomas Love PeacockTime is lord of thee: Thy wealth, thy glory, and thy name are his.
Thomas Love Peacock"In his last binn Sir Peter lies." * * * * He kept at true humour's mark The social flow of pleasure's tide: He never made a brow look dark, Nor caused a tear, but when he died.
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