| 5 Famous Quotes by Thomas Love Peacock
[1-5]
|
|---|
|
“My thoughts by night are often filled
With visions false as fair:
For in the past alone, I build
My castles in the air.”
Visions Quotes Source: Castles in the Air (st. 1)
|
|
“My steps have pressed the flowers,
That to the Muses' bowers
The eternal dews of Helicon have given:
And trod the mountain height,
Where Science, young and bright,
Scans with poetic gaze the midnight-heaven.
Yet have I found no power to vie
With thine, severe necessity!”
Necessity Quotes Source: Necessity
|
|
“The mountain sheep are sweeter,
But the valley sheep are fatter.
We therefore deemed it meeter
To carry off the latter.
- Thomas Love Peacock,”
Sheep Quotes Source: The Misfortune of Elphin--The War-Song of Dinas Vawr
|
|
“Clouds on clouds, in volumes driven,
Curtain round the vault of heaven.”
Clouds Quotes Source: Rhododaphne (canto V, l. 257)
|
|
“The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity.”
Waste Quotes |
| [1-5] |
Thomas Love Peacock Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings
|
|
|