Headlong HallJ. M. Dent & Company, 1891 - 176 من الصفحات Thomas Love Peacock (1785‒1866) is one of the most distinctive prose satirists of the Romantic period. The Cambridge Edition of the Novels of Thomas Love Peacock offers the first complete text of these works to appear for more than half a century. Headlong Hall (1816), Peacock's earliest work of dialogic and satirical fiction, was the most popular of his tales during his lifetime and considered his signature novel. An episodic plot and a country house setting provide the framework for a sparkling intellectual comedy that embraces music, gastronomy, philosophy, politics, craniology, painting, and landscape gardening. This edition supplies an authoritative text and a comprehensive introduction tracing the genesis, composition, publication, reception, and revision of the novel. Extensive explanatory notes throw light on the Welsh backdrop to the fiction as well as on the literary, political, social, and intellectual contexts of Peacock's innovative topical satire. |
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الصفحة 13 - I am delighted with Nightmare Abbey. I think Scythrop a character admirably conceived and executed ; and I know not how to praise sufficiently the lightness, chastity, and strength of the language of the whole.
الصفحة 85 - He never made a brow look dark, Nor caused a tear, but when he died. No sorrow round his tomb should dwell : More pleased his gay old ghost would be, For funeral song, and passing bell, To hear no sound but THREE TIMES THREE.
الصفحة 42 - The fastidious in old wine are a race that does not decay. Literary violators of the confidences of private life still gain a disreputable livelihood and an unenviable notoriety. Matchmakers from interest, and the disappointed in love and in friendship, are varieties of which specimens are extant. The great principle of the...
الصفحة 68 - I distinguish the picturesque and the beautiful, and I add to them, in the laying out of grounds, a, third and distinct character, which I call unexpectedness." "Pray sir,
الصفحة 94 - Milestone. This, you perceive, is the natural state of one part of the grounds. Here is a wood, never yet touched by the finger of taste ; thick, intricate, and gloomy. Here is a little stream, dashing from stone to stone, and overshadowed with these untrimmed boughs. , Miss Tenorina. The sweet romantic spot ! How beautifully the birds must sing there on a summer evening ! Miss Graziosa.
الصفحة 7 - The woods, the hills, the fields, the stream, Are basking in the selfsame beam : The fall, that turns the unseen mill, As then it murmured, murmurs still. It seems as if in one were cast The present and the imaged past ; Spanning, as with a bridge sublime, That fearful lapse of human time ; That gulf, unfathomably spread Between the living and the dead.
الصفحة 84 - None better knew the feast to sway, Or keep Mirth's boat in better trim; For Nature had but little clay Like that of which she moulded him. The meanest guest that graced his board Was there the freest of the free, His bumper toast when PETER poured, And passed it round with THREE TIMES THREE.
الصفحة 56 - It has been said," continued he, " that the ox was expressly made to be eaten by man : it may be said, by a parity of reasoning, that man was expressly made to be eaten by the tiger : but as wild oxen exist where there are no men, and men where there are nc tigers, it would seem that in these instances they do not properly answer the ends of their creation.
الصفحة 7 - I gaze, where August's sunbeam falls Along these gray and lonely walls, Till in its light absorbed appears The lapse of five-and-thirty years. If change there be, I trace it not In all this consecrated spot : No new imprint of Ruin's march On roofless wall and frameless arch : The...
الصفحة 163 - The whole process of the action was mechanical and necessary. The application of the poker necessitated the ignition of the powder : the ignition necessitated the explosion : the explosion necessitated my sudden fright, which necessitated my sudden jump, which, from a necessity equally powerful, was in a curvilinear ascent : the descent, being in a corresponding curve, and commencing at a point perpendicular to the extreme line of the edge of the tower, I was, by the necessity of gravitation, attracted,...