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Thomas Love Peacock
(1785 - 1866 / England)

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Thomas Love Peacock was born in 1785, in Dorset, at Weymouth. He was the son of a glass merchant, who died three years after he was born. He was raised at his grandfather's house in Chertsey, by his mother. Despite the fact that his formal schooling ended before his teens (he never attended a univer .. .. more >>

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1		A Bill for the Better Promotion of Oppression on the Sabbath Day
2		A Fragment
3		A Glee
4		Beyond the Sea
5		Castles in the Air
6		Duet
7		Glee -- The Ghosts
8		I Dug Beneath the Cypress Shade
9		Instead of Sitting Wrapped up in Flannel
10		Life's Uncertain Day
11		Lines on the Death of Julia
12		Love and Age
13		Margaret Love Peacock
14		Newark Abbey
15		Palmyra (1st Edition)
16		Palmyra (2nd Edition)
17		Quintetto
18		Rich & Poor; or Saint & Sinner
19		Seamen Three
20		Sir Hornbook

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"Ancient sculpture is the true school of modesty. But where the Greeks had modesty, we have cant; where they had poetry, we have cant; where they had patriotism, we have cant; where they had anything that exalts, delights, or adorns humanity, we have nothing but cant, cant, cant."
Thomas Love Peacock (1785-1866), British author. Crotchet Castle, ch. 7 (1831).

"A book that furnishes no quotations is, me judice, no book—it is a plaything."
Thomas Love Peacock (1785-1866), British author. Dr. Folliot, in Crotchet Castle, ch. 9 (1831).

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Thomas Love Peacock - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Thomas Love Peacock was born in Weymouth, Dorset, England. His father was a glass merchant in London, partner of a Mr Pellatt, presumed to be the founder of ...
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The Thomas Love Peacock Society
Thomas Love Peacock (1785-1866), Poems of TL Peacock, Novels of TL Peacock, Romantic Literature, Crotchet Castle by Thomas Love Peacock, Gryll Grange by ...
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"The Four Ages of Poetry" by Thomas Love Peacock
Thomas Love Peacock. The Four Ages of Poetry. Qui inter haec nutriuntur non magis sapere possunt, quam bene olere qui in culina habitant. PETRONIUS. [1] ...
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T.L. Peacock
Thomas Love Peacock was born at Weymouth, in Dorset, the only son of a London ... For further reading: The Life of Thomas Love Peacock by Carl Van Doren ...
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