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yvonnezlam: I think this is a lot of my love of Golden Age mystery novels, PG Wodehouse, etc. Not at all modernist, but I’ve been meaning to read Thomas Love Peacock for years since I read somewhere his books are the c18 version. Stoppard’s Arcadia is a bit like this too.
EdgardLemaire: "Nightmare Abbey, a venerable family-mansion, in a highly picturesque state of semi-dilapidation, pleasantly situated on a strip of dry land between the sea and the fens, at the verge of the county of Lincoln, had the honour to be the..."
Thomas Love Peacock - Nightmare Abbey
apthous: “Is ours a government of the people, by the people, for the people, or a kakistocracy rather, for the benefit of knaves at the cost of fools?”
― Thomas Love Peacock
cr00: Not drunk is he who from the floor
Can rise alone and still drink more.
~ Thomas Love Peacock (1785-1866)
maryluv30235961: I like the immaterial world. I like to live among thoughts and images of the past and the possible, and even of the impossible, now and then.,Thomas Love Peacock, Gryll Grange,fantasy, hope, imagination,
neglectedbooks: Random cover from the TBR pile:
The Island is Full of Strange Noises by Angus Heriot (1963)
Described as a melange of gin, Ronald Firbank, and Thomas Love Peacock, and there are worse ingredients that those. Plus, Heriot wrote a history of operatic castrati, so there's that, too.
alison_newbold: Reading the introduction to Novels of Thomas Love Peacock by JB Priestley who states that their marriage must've been unsuccessful because 'happy wives can recover even from the death of a favourite child'. She never really did. I'm livid with JBP!
apthous: “Is ours a government of the people, by the people, for the people, or a kakistocracy rather, for the benefit of knaves at the cost of fools?”
― Thomas Love Peacock
advocatemayank: ‘Names’ are changed more readily than doctrines, an doctrines more readily than ceremonies…
- Thomas Love Peacock
LegoLas44941816: In taking the piss out of romanticism, Thomas Love Peacock manages to give the perfect definition of it, and express what makes it so seductive. That *something* (but what?) *behind* appearances.
stuart_herkes: 8. Green carnation Awards. But I'll leave you with the fate of the author Thomas Love Peacock who died from injuries sustained from trying to save books from his library when it caught fire-now that's a bibliophile!
RyanHoliday: "In a state of society so corrupted as that in which we live, the best instructors and companions are ancient books." Thomas Love Peacock
mclaughlin8gqy: A Thomas Love Peacock Miscellany XQCAXRE
kevmcveigh: Found on yesterday's wander, Thomas Love Peacock's Memoirs of Shelley. I love Peacock. I'm amused that having declined offers to write a Shelley biog he chose to critique those by others, thus writing his own almost by proxy & default.
AnuradhaSowmyan: BOOK FOOD LANGUAGE: THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK'S POEM - LOVE AND AGE
EdgardLemaire: "The abbot, thus pressed from behind, and stumbling over his own drapery before, fell suddenly prostrate in the door-way that connected the chapel with the abbey, and was instantaneously buried under a pyramid of ghostly carcasses, that fell over him and..."
- Thomas Love Peacock
EdgardLemaire: "Matilda seemed disposed to fly again to her lover, but the baron forced her from the chapel. The earl’s bowmen at the door sent in among the assailants a volley of arrows, one of which whizzed past the ear of the abbot, who, in mortal fear of being..."
- Thomas Love Peacock
Bloomhunmai: NIMRIT DESERVES TROPHY
Not drunk is he who from the floor - Can rise alone and still drink more; But drunk is They, who prostrate lies, Without the power to drink or rise. - Thomas Love Peacock..
SFEncyclopedia: ... The Brothers Hildebrandt (b.1939)
EdgardLemaire: The soldiers were prepared for such an occurrence, and a desperate skirmish succeeded. Some of the women screamed, but none of them fainted; for fainting was not so much the fashion in those days, when the ladies breakfasted on brawn and ale at sunrise...
- Thomas Love Peacock
EdgardLemaire: He kissed Matilda’s lips, and consigned her to the baron, who glowered about him with an expression of countenance that showed he was mortally wroth with somebody; but whatever he thought or felt he kept to himself. The earl, with a sign to his followers...
- Thomas Love Peacock
allrightblog: “Not drunk is he who from the floor,
Can rise again and still drink more,
But drunk is he who prostrate lies,
Without the power to drink or rise.”
Drink, friends, to the memory of Thomas Love Peacock, who died on this day, 23 January, in 1866.
PaulPs4147: I knew I had come across the phony toff, Jacob Rees-Snob in a previous life, and then I realised - he's in every Thomas Love Peacock novel.
EdgardLemaire: “That I well knew, said the earl; “and though the ceremony be incomplete, we are not the less married in the eye of my only saint, our Lady, who will yet bring us together. Lord Fitzwater, to your care, for the present, I commit your daughter. Nay, sweet...”
- Thomas Love Peacock
EdgardLemaire: “Sweet Matilda,” said the earl, “did you give your love to the Earl of Huntingdon, whose lands touch the Ouse and the Trent, or to Robert Fitz-Ooth, the son of his mother?”
“Neither to the earl nor his earldom,” answered Matilda firmly, “but to Robert...”
- Thomas Love Peacock
kali63h: A Thomas Love Peacock Miscellany MT2QSCD
LeoTheLess: I almost think it is the ultimate destiny of science to exterminate the human race. —Thomas Love Peacock via Erwin Chargaff
LexiStiedemann1: Melincourt (The Cambridge Edition of the Novels of Thomas Love Peacock, Series Number 2) NKUJHEF
mrtoughdev: Thomas Love Peacock said "I almost think it is the ultimate destiny of science to exterminate the human race."
Nestor91Z: A Thomas Love Peacock Miscellany RVD5MQT
EdgardLemaire: "The soldiers, confident in superiority of numbers, paused. The abbot took advantage of the pause to introduce a word of exhortation. “My children,” said he, “if you are going to cut each other’s throats, I entreat you, in the name of peace and charity...”
- Thomas Love Peacock
gussie32zt: Melincourt (The Cambridge Edition of the Novels of Thomas Love Peacock, Series Number 2) FNWQMLE
vonruedenvgzgk: A Thomas Love Peacock Miscellany LHE5LY5
TheTLS: 'Where Peacock throws abstraction to the winds with greatest glee, the targets are his bêtes noires the Lake poets: Jacobin radicals turned Tory placemen, now drawn 'into the vortex of courtly patronage'.'
TheTLS: 'Peacock is at his best where philosophical abstraction bumps up against burlesque realism.'
EdgardLemaire: "The earl drew his own sword instantly, and struck down the interposing weapon; then clasped his left arm round Matilda, who sprang into his embrace, and held his sword before her with his right hand. His yeomen ranged themselves at his side, and stood..."
- Thomas Love Peacock
simpsons_books: Melincourt; Or, Sir Oran Haut-Ton (1817) by Thomas Love Peacock
Thucydiocy: 7 in a couple of hours. Incidentally, I looked at what other texts these bots are citing fragments of: a Thomas Love Peacock novel, some really obscure C19 fiction, and a load of fragments too generic to identify.
Vella910: Melincourt (The Cambridge Edition of the Novels of Thomas Love Peacock, Series Number 2) DOQU3LY
booksofapril: today before sleep we are crying to love and age by thomas love peacock!
dynastyofhw: Love without Borders (Bravo & Peacock). I just started it. Miami Vice’s Phillip Michael Thomas’ son (PMT, jr, aka Phil) is one of the suitors. (That’s Sr in the GIF)
jerdejudcp: A Thomas Love Peacock Miscellany MFKND7P
Herminio91N: Melincourt (The Cambridge Edition of the Novels of Thomas Love Peacock, Series Number 2) F6W072G
BruceArthurs4: H.R. Millar (1869-1942), with an illustration from an 1896 edition of Thomas Love Peacock's HEADLONG HALL AND NIGHTMARE ABBEY.
The lady's apparent nonchalance as the two men begin a tumble down a flight of stairs is rather striking.
EdgardLemaire: "The leader strode up to the altar; and placing himself opposite to the abbot, and between the earl and Matilda, in such a manner that the four together seemed to stand on the four points of a diamond, exclaimed, “In the name of King Henry, I forbid the..."
- Thomas Love Peacock
SFFAudio: The War Song
of Dinas Vawr
[by Thomas Love Peacock]
KingOfHits: Might I point any readers to my new novel THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK LUV TOM? It's on Amazon.
TrueQuotation: The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived. — Thomas Love Peacock
BradSkalet: Is ours a government of the people, by the people, for the people, or a kakistocracy rather, for the benefit of knaves at the cost of fools?
Thomas Love Peacock
Billy73F: A Thomas Love Peacock Miscellany 04UOWXE
BruceArthurs4: Frederick Henry Townsend (1868-1920), with a depiction of Little John from MAID MARIAN, AND CROCHET CASTLE, an 1895 collection of two 1822 and 1831 works by Thomas Love Peacock. Townsend uses a simpler composition and bolder linework here than in many of his works elsewhere.
JessieGothland: By Thomas Love Peacock
EdgardLemaire: "The voice of the abbot subsided into silence through a descending scale of long-drawn melody, like the sound of the ebbing sea to the explorers of a cave. In a few moments all was silence, interrupted only by the iron tread of the armed intruders, as it..."
- Thomas Love Peacock
EdgardLemaire: "The organ-blower, who was working his musical air-pump with one hand, and with two fingers and a thumb of the other insinuating a peeping-place through the curtain of the organ-gallery, was struck motionless by the double operation of curiosity and fear..."
- Thomas Love Peacock
EdgardLemaire: "But he had not proceeded far enough to exhibit all the variety and compass of this melodious instrument, when a noise was heard at the gate, and a party of armed men entered the chapel. The song of the choristers died away in a shake of demisemiquavers..."
- Thomas Love Peacock
JasonDDavis8: "I almost think it is the ultimate destiny of science to exterminate the human race."
~ Thomas Love Peacock
EdgardLemaire: “It is strange,” thought the baron, “that the earl should come in this martial array to his wedding;” but he had not long to meditate on the phenomenon, for the foaming steeds swept up to the gate like a whirlwind, and the earl, breathless with speed, and...
- Thomas Love Peacock
emmalee16n: Melincourt (The Cambridge Edition of the Novels of Thomas Love Peacock, Series Number 2) GCQCZSN
KingOfHits: Me at my desk writing my new novel THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK LUV TOM.
EdgardLemaire: "Through the open gates of the chapel she looked down the narrow road that wound along the side of the hill; and her ear was the first that heard the distant trampling of horses, and her eye was the first that caught the glitter of snowy plumes, and the..."
- Thomas Love Peacock
EdgardLemaire: "The bride, with her father and attendant maidens, entered the chapel; but the earl had not arrived. The baron was amazed, and the bridemaidens were disconcerted. Matilda feared that some evil had befallen her lover, but felt no diminution of her..."
- Thomas Love Peacock
Unanymousxx: Thomas Love Peacock Luv Tom by Kenneth George King is released next week available via Amazon as Hardback, Paperback and E Book.
erdman_janiya: A Thomas Love Peacock Miscellany EYIMHN0
farnswj1: "On the top of Cadair Idris, I felt how happy a man might be with a little money and a sane intellect, and reflected with astonishment and pity on the madness of the multitude." - Thomas Love Peacock
InUrFnKitchnWoo: There was a British writer in the 1800s named Thomas Love Peacock.
Book_Addict: Happy birthday to English writer and poet Thomas Love Peacock (October 18, 1785), author of “Nightmare Abbey” (1818) et al.
MacCocktail: “The juice of the grape is the liquid quintessence of concentrated sunbeams.”
― Thomas Love Peacock (born this day October 18, 1785)
MacCocktail: "I almost think it is the ultimate destiny of science to exterminate the human race."
― Thomas Love Peacock (born this day October 18, 1785)
bufocalvin: Happy bookish birthdays, 18 October to: H.L. Davis (Honey in the Horn), Esther R. Hautzig (The Endless Steppe), Thomas Love Peacock (Nightmare Abbey), Nic Pizzolatto (Galveston)...
ARTSalamode: Born 10/18: painters Luca Giordano James Brooks, Canaletto, writers Harold Lenoir "H.L." Davis, Ntozake Shange, Thomas Love Peacock, Wendy Wasserstein, Terry McMillan, jazz musicians: trumpet Wynton Marsalis, vocals Anita O'Day, piano Bobby Troup, drums Bill Stewart.
ARTSalamode: "Man yields to death; and man's sublimest works
Must yield at length to Time."
Thomas Love Peacock
SFEncyclopedia: ... Edmond Haraucourt (b.1856)
iJIHelfrich: Just got done watching I Love You, You Hate Me on Peacock and the question Steve Burns asked on, who was your Barney? For me it was Thomas the Tank Engine.
RomGothSam: 25) Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen (1817)
26) Nightmare Abbey - Thomas Love Peacock (1819)
27) The Vampyre - John Polidori (1819)
28) The Black Vampyre - Uriah Derek D'Arcy (1819)
EdgardLemaire: "The abbey of Rubygill stood in a picturesque valley, at a little distance from the western boundary of Sherwood Forest, in a spot which seemed adapted by nature to be the retreat of monastic mortification, being on the banks of a fine trout-stream, and..."
- Thomas Love Peacock
EdgardLemaire: "“The abbot, in his alb arrayed,” stood at the altar in the abbey-chapel of Rubygill, with all his plump, sleek, rosy friars, in goodly lines disposed, to solemnise the nuptials of the beautiful Matilda Fitzwater, daughter of the Baron of Arlingford..."
- Thomas Love Peacock
legalstyleblog: The poet Thomas Love Peacock (1785–1866) is the unusual author whose name is a valid sentence in Subject Verb Object order.
royalacademy: 3. Albert Angus Turbayne, upper cover and spine of publisher's binding for: Thomas Love Peacock, 'The misfortunes of Elphin and Rhododaphne', London and New York: Macmillan & Co., 1897. Royal blue publisher's cloth, 187 mm x 132 mm x 28 mm.
wool1111: THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK! thou shouldst be living at this hour: Internet autism hath need of thee
rhyskamjones: Does the NYPL really have copies of Thomas Love Peacock's recipes for "custards", "calf's head pie", and "spitch-cocked eels"? Seems so...
DavidParlett: Essays of Elia (Charles Lamb) and novels by Thomas Love Peacock.
JannieH01428097: A Thomas Love Peacock Miscellany [XAK2FNA]
Jimmie675: Melincourt (The Cambridge Edition of the Novels of Thomas Love Peacock, Series Number 2) [HLOMKQG]
Orn9Kris: A Thomas Love Peacock Miscellany [VMYNDO8]
53percenter2012: "Is ours a government of the people, by the people, for the people, or a kakistocracy rather, for the benefit of knaves at the cost of fools?"
― Thomas Love Peacock
DifficileE: “Is ours a government of the people, by the people, for the people, or a kakistocracy rather, for the benefit of knaves at the cost of fools?”
― Thomas Love Peacock
SusanDuBuque2: Melincourt (The Cambridge Edition of the Novels of Thomas Love Peacock, Series Number 2) [N7POALD]
pannusf10: Blimey they walk among us. Helmet Rotwell, Justice of the Peace straight out of Thomas Love Peacock.
nicratwoman: “The juice of the grape is the liquid quintessence of concentrated sunbeams.”
― Thomas Love Peacock
OnceLostWandrer: Nightmare Abbey
DocHolidayBrow1: I love discovering books written in the 1800s that are just wild. “Melincourt” by Thomas Love Peacock is about a half man-half orangutan who joins English Parliament and is better morally than his peers, and then the book starts off with: “So there’s this whore right…”
RToddWebb: Thomas Love Peacock’s novel “Melincourt” gets off to a flying start…
OHNOITSKEN: Will Smith slapped Chris Rock? What is this? A bardic triad about the Three Fatal Slaps as told in The Misfortunes of Elphin (1829) by Thomas Love Peacock???? But seriously folks-
jsief: time to (finally) read some Thomas Love Peacock. perhaps starting with Headlong Hall.
plastic_bio: The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity.
- Thomas Love Peacock
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