Thomas Love Peacock
Thomas Love Peacock
Thomas Love Peacockwas an English novelist, poet, and official of the East India Company. He was a close friend of Percy Bysshe Shelley and they influenced each other's work. Peacock wrote satirical novels, each with the same basic setting: characters at a table discussing and criticising the philosophical opinions of the day...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth18 October 1785
past world impossible
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.
time names wealth
Time is lord of thee: Thy wealth, thy glory, and thy name are his.
time men yield
Man yields to death; and man's sublimest works Must yield at length to Time.
time night men
Time, the foe of man's dominion, Wheels around in ceaseless flight, Scattering from his hoary pinion Shades of everlasting night.
ideas tea dinner
Tea, late dinners and the French Revolution. I cannot exactly see the connection of ideas.
might fancy wander
But still my fancy wanders free Through that which might have been.
reading class community
The truth, I am convinced, is that there is no longer a poetical audience among the higher class of minds, that moral, political, and physical science have entirely withdrawn from poetry the attention of all whose attention is worth having; and that the poetical reading public being composed of the mere dregs of the intellectual community, the most sufficing passport to their favour must rest on the mixture of a little easily-intelligible portion of mawkish sentiment with an absolute negation of reason and knowledge.
genius records proof
The highest wisdom and the highest genius have been invariably accompanied with cheerfulness. We have sufficient proofs on record that Shakespeare and Socrates were the most festive companions.
animal men use
Nothing can be more obvious than that all animals were created solely and exclusively for the use of man.
names doctrine changed
Names are changed more readily than doctrines, and doctrines more readily than ceremonies.
doe genius blight
The critic does his utmost to blight genius in his infancy.
past night air
My thoughts by night are often filled With visions false as fair: For in the past alone, I build My castles in the air.
science destiny thinking
They have poisoned the Thames and killed the fish in the river. A little further development of the same wisdom and science will complete the poisoning of the air, and kill the dwellers on the banks. I almost think it is the destiny of science to exterminate the human race.
often-is lakes may
Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horsepond.