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5 Quotes for 'Thomas Love Peacock' in the Database.
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Thomas Love Peacock Quotes
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Clouds on clouds, in volumes driven,
Curtain round the vault of heaven.
Topic: Clouds
Source: Rhododaphne (canto V, l. 257)
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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!
Topic: Necessity
Source: Necessity
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The mountain sheep are sweeter,
But the valley sheep are fatter.
We therefore deemed it meeter
To carry off the latter.
- Thomas Love Peacock,
Topic: Sheep
Source: The Misfortune of Elphin--The War-Song of Dinas Vawr
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My thoughts by night are often filled
With visions false as fair:
For in the past alone, I build
My castles in the air.
Topic: Visions
Source: Castles in the Air (st. 1)
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The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity.
Topic: Waste
Source: None
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