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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Nightmare Abbey, by Thomas Love Peacock |
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Title: Nightmare Abbey |
Author: Thomas Love Peacock |
Posting Date: November 19, 2011 [EBook #9909] |
Release Date: February, 2006 |
First Posted: October 30, 2003 |
Last Updated: July 17, 2010 |
Language: English |
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NIGHTMARE ABBEY |
By |
_Thomas Love Peacock_ |
CONTENTS |
NIGHTMARE ABBEY |
NOTES TO _Nightmare Abbey_ |
NIGHTMARE ABBEY: |
BY |
THE AUTHOR OF HEADLONG HALL. |
* * * * * |
There's a dark lantern of the spirit, |
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. |
BUTLER. |
* * * * * |
LONDON: |
1818. |
MATTHEW. Oh! it's your only fine humour, sir. Your true melancholy |
breeds your perfect fine wit, sir. I am melancholy myself, divers |
times, sir; and then do I no more but take pen and paper presently, |
and overflow you half a score or a dozen of sonnets at a sitting. |
STEPHEN. Truly, sir, and I love such things out of measure. |
MATTHEW. Why, I pray you, sir, make use of my study: it's at your |
service. |
STEPHEN. I thank you, sir, I shall be bold, I warrant you. Have you a |
stool there, to be melancholy upon? |
BEN JONSON, _Every Man in his Humour_, Act 3, Sc. I |
Ay esleu gazouiller et siffler oye, comme dit le commun |
proverbe, entre les cygnes, plutoust que d'estre entre |
tant de gentils poëtes et faconds orateurs mut du tout |
estimé. |
RABELAIS, _Prol. L_. 5 |
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