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Thomas Love Peacock

Crotchet CastleThomas Love Peacock Crotchet Castle INTRODUCTION Thomas Love Peacock was born at Weymouth in 1785. His first poem, “The Genius of the Thames,” was in its second edition when he became one of the friends of Shelley. That was in 1812, when Shelley’s age was twenty, Peacock’s twenty-s...

Nightmare AbbeyThomas Love Peacock Nightmare Abbey There's a dark lantern of the spirit,Which none see by but those who bear it,That makes them in the dark see visionsAnd hag themselves with apparitions,Find racks for their own minds, and vauntOf their own misery and want. BUTLER.* * * * *LONDON:...

Maid MarianThomas Love Peacock Maid Marian CHAPTER I Now come ye for peace here, or come ye for war? —SCOTT.“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 beaut...