Author: Thomas Love Peacock

Cites

• Samuel Butler (3)
  • IN: Nightmare Abbey (None) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: There's a dark lantern of the sprit, Which none see by but those who bear it. That makes them in the dark see visions And hag themselves with apparitions, Find racks for their own minds, and vaunt Of their own misery and want.
    FROM: Hudibras, (1684), Poem, UK
  • IN: Gryll Grange (1861) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Opinion governs all mankind, Like the blind leading of the blind : — And like the world, men's jobbernoles Turn round upon their eara the poles, And what they're confidently told By no sense else can be control'd.
    FROM: Miscellaneous thoughts, (None), Poem, UK
  • IN: Crochet Castle (1831) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Should once the world resolve to abolish All that's ridiculous and foolish, It would have nothing left to do, To apply in jest or earnest to.
    FROM: Miscellaneous thoughts, (None), Poem, UK
• NULL (3)
  • IN: Headlong Hall (1816) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: All philosophers, who find Some favourite system to their mind, In every point to make it fit, Will force all nature to submit.
    FROM: NULL, (None), [NA], NULL
  • IN: The Misfortunes of Elphin (1829) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Unlooked-for good betides us still. And unanticipated ill : Blind Fortune rules the hours that roll : Then fill with good old wine the bowl.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
  • IN: Crochet Castle (1831) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Le monde est plein de ſoùs, et qui ù'en vas pas voir, Doit se tenir tout seul, et casser son miroir,
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, France
• Petrarca (1)
  • IN: The Genius of the Thames (1817) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Non è questo ’1 terren, ch’ 1’ toccaî pria? Non è questo ’l mio nido, Ove nudrito fui sì dolcemente? Non è questa la patria in ch’ io mi fido, Madre benigna e pia, Che copre l’uno e 1’ altró mio parente ?
    FROM: Italia mia, benché 'l parlar sia indarno, (1374), Poem, Italy
• Petronas Arbiter (1)
  • IN: The Misfortunes of Elphin (1829) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Quod non exspectes ex transverso fit, Et supra nos Fortuna negotia curat: Quare da nobis vina Falerna, puer.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Italy
• Thomas Gray (1)
  • IN: The Misfortunes of Elphin (1829) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway, That, hush'd in grim repose, expects his evening prey.
    FROM: The Bard, (1757), Poem, UK
• William Shakespeare (1)
  • IN: Crochet Castle (1831) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Captain Jamy. I wad full fain hear some question 'tween you tway. HENRY
    FROM: V., Henry, (1623), Play, UK
• Petronius (1)
  • IN: Headlong Hall (1816) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: All philosophers, who find Some favourite system to their mind, In every point to make it fit, Will force all nature to submit.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Italy

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• Jane West (1)
  • IN: Alicia de Lacy (1814) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Haw many a chief, whose busy mind ConvuU'd this earthy scene, Has sunk forgotten by mankind, At tho' he ne'er had been.
    FROM: Genius of Thames, (1810), Poem, UK
• Stella Gibbons (1)
  • IN: Conference at Cold Comfort Farm (1932) Novel, British
    EPIGRAPH: I think it necessary to make a stand against the encroachments of black bile.
    FROM: Letter to Percy Shelley, May 30th 1818, (1818), Letter, UK