See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
THOMAS LOVE See also:PEACOCK (1785-1866)
, See also:English novelist and poet, was See also:born at See also:Weymouth on the 18th of See also:October 1785
.
He was the only son of a See also:London See also:glass See also:merchant, who died soon after the See also:child's See also:birth
.
See also:Young See also:Peacock was educated at a private school at See also:Englefield See also:Green, and after a brief experience of business determined to devote himself to literature, while living with his See also:mother (daughter of See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas Love, a See also:naval See also:man) on their private means
.
His first books were poetical, The Monks of St See also:Mark (1804), See also:Palmyra (18o6), The See also:Genius of the See also:Thames (181o), The See also:Philosophy of See also:Melancholy (1812)—See also:works of no See also:great merit
.
He also made several dramatic attempts, which were never acted
.
He served for a See also:short See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time as secretary to See also:Sir See also:Home See also:Popham at See also:Flushing, and paid several visits to See also:Wales
.
In 1812 he became acquainted with See also:Shelley
.
In 1815 he evinced his See also:peculiar See also:power by See also:writing his novel Headlong See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
Hall
.
It was published in 1816, and Melincourt followed in the ensuing See also:year
.
During 1817 he lived at Great See also:Marlow, enjoying the almost daily society of Shelley, and writing Nightmare See also:Abbey and Rhododaphne, by far the best of his See also:long poems
.
In 1819 he was appointed assistant examiner at the See also:India See also:House
.
Peacock's nomination appears to have been due to the See also:influence of his old schoolfellow See also:- PETER
- PETER (Lat. Petrus from Gr. irfpos, a rock, Ital. Pietro, Piero, Pier, Fr. Pierre, Span. Pedro, Ger. Peter, Russ. Petr)
- PETER (PEDRO)
- PETER, EPISTLES OF
- PETER, ST
Peter See also:Auber, secretary to the See also:East India See also:Company, and the papers he prepared as tests of his ability were returned with the comment, " Nothing superfluous and nothing wanting." This was characteristic of the whole of his intellectual See also:work; and equally characteristic of the man was his See also:marriage about this time to Jane See also:Griffith, to whom he proposed by See also:letter, not having seen her for eight years
.
They had four See also:children, only one of whom, a son, survived his See also:father; one daughter was the first wife of See also:George See also:Meredith
.
His novel Maid Marian appeared in 1822, The Misfortunes of Elphin in 1829, and See also:Crotchet See also:Castle in 1831; and he would probably have written more but for the See also:death in 1833 of his mother
.
He also contributed to the See also:Westminster See also:Review and the Examiner
.
His services to the East India Company, outside the usual See also:official routine, were considerable
.
He defended it successfully against the attacks of See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James See also:Silk
See also:- BUCKINGHAM
- BUCKINGHAM, EARLS, MARQUESSES AND DUKES OF
- BUCKINGHAM, FIRST DUKE
- BUCKINGHAM, GEORGE VILLIERS, 1ST DUKE 0E1
- BUCKINGHAM, GEORGE VILLIERS, 2ND DUKE 0E1 (1628-1687)
- BUCKINGHAM, HENRY STAFFORD, 2ND DUKE OF3 (1454-1483)
- BUCKINGHAM, JAMES SILK (1786-1855)
Buckingham and the See also:Liverpool See also:salt See also:interest, and made the subject of See also:steam See also:navigation to India peculiarly his own
.
He represented the company before the various See also:parliamentary committees on this question; and in 1839 and 184o superintended the construction of See also:iron steamers, which not only made the voyage See also:round the Cape successfully, but proved very useful in the See also:Chinese See also:War
.
He also See also:drew up the instructions for the See also:Euphrates expedition of 1835, subsequently pronounced by its See also:commander, See also:General F
.
R
.
See also:Chesney, to be See also:models of sagacity
.
In 1836 he succeeded James See also:- MILL
- MILL (O. Eng. mylen, later myln, or miln, adapted from the late Lat. molina, cf. Fr. moulin, from Lat. mola, a mill, molere, to grind; from the same root, mol, is derived " meal;" the word appears in other Teutonic languages, cf. Du. molen, Ger. muhle)
- MILL, JAMES (1773-1836)
- MILL, JOHN (c. 1645–1707)
- MILL, JOHN STUART (1806-1873)
Mill as See also:chief examiner, and in 1856 he retired upon a See also:pension
.
During his later years he contributed several papers to See also:Fraser's See also:Magazine, including reminiscences of Shelley, whose executor he was
.
He also wrote in the same magazine his last novel, Gryll See also:Grange (1860), inferior to his earlier writings in See also:humour and vigour, but still a surprising effort for a man of his See also:age
.
He died on the 23rd of See also:January 1866 at See also:Lower Halliford, near See also:Chertsey, where, so far as his London occupations would allow him, he had resided for more than See also:forty years
.
Peacock's position hi English literature is unique
.
There was nothing like Ms type of novel before his time; though there might have been if it had occurred to See also:Swift to invent a See also:story as a vehicle for the See also:dialogue of his Polite Conversation
.
Peacock speaks as well in his own See also:person as through his puppets; and his pithy wit and sense, combined with remarkable See also:- GRACE (Fr. grace, Lat. gratia, from grates, beloved, pleasing; formed from the root cra-, Gr. xav-, cf. xaipw, x6p,ua, Xapts)
- GRACE, WILLIAM GILBERT (1848– )
grace and accuracy of natural description, atone for the See also:primitive simplicity of See also:plot and See also:character
.
Of his seven See also:fictions, Nightmare Abbey and Crotchet Castle are perhaps on the whole the best, the former displaying the most vis comica of situation, the latter the fullest maturity of intellectual power and the most skilful grouping of the See also:motley See also:crowd of " perfectibilians, deteriorationists, statuquo-ites, phrenologists, transcendentalists, See also:political economists, theorists in all sciences, projectors in all arts, morbid visionaries, romantic enthusiasts, lovers of See also:music, lovers of the picturesque and lovers of See also:good dinners," who constitute the dramatis personae of the Peacockian novel
.
Maid Marian and The Misfortunes of Elphin are hardly less entertaining
.
Both contain descriptive passages of extraordinary beauty
.
Melincourt is a See also:comparative failure, the excellent See also:idea of an orang-outang mimicking humanity being insufficient as the See also:sole groundwork of a novel
.
Headlong Hall, though more than foreshadowing the author's subsequent excellence, is marred by a certain bookish awkwardness characteristic of the recluse student, which reappears in Gryll Grange as the pedantry of an old-fashioned See also:scholar, whose likes and dislikes have become inveterate and whose sceptical liberalism, always rather inspired by hatred of cant than See also:enthusiasm for progress, has petrified into only toe See also:earnest conservatism
.
The See also:book's See also:quaint resolute paganism, however, is very refreshing in an age eaten up with See also:introspection; it is the kindliest of Peacock's writings, and contains the most beautiful of his poems, " Years Ago," the See also:reminiscence of an See also:early See also:attachment
.
In general the See also:ballads and songs interspersed through his tales are models of exact and melodious diction, and See also:instinct with true feeling
.
His more ambitious poems are See also:worth little, except Rhododaphne, attractive as a story and perfect as a See also:composition, but destitute of genuine poetical See also:inspiration
.
His See also:critical and See also:miscellaneous writings are always interesting, especially the restorations of lost classical plays in the Horae dramaticae, but the only one of great mark is the witty and crushing exposure in the Westminster Review of Thomas See also:Moore's See also:ignorance of the See also:manners and belief he has ventured to portray in his Epicurean
.
Peacock resented the misrepresentation of his favourite See also:sect, the good and See also:ill of whose tenets were fairly represented in his own person
.
Some-what sluggish and self-indulgent, incapable of enthusiasm or self-See also:sacrifice, he yet possessed a deep undemonstrative kindliness of nature; he could not See also:bear to see anyone near him unhappy or uncomfortable; and his sympathy, no less than his genial humour, gained him the attachment of children, dependants, and See also:friends
.
In official See also:life he was upright and conscientious; his See also:judgment was shrewd and robust
.
What Shelley justly termed " the lightness, strength and chastity " of his diction secures him an See also:honourable See also:rank among those English writers whose claims to remembrance depend not only upon See also:matter but upon See also:style
.
Peacock's works were collected, though not completely, and published in three volumes in 1875, at the expense of his friend and former protege, Sir See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry See also:Cole, with an excellent memoir by his granddaughter Mrs See also:- CLARKE, ADAM (1762?—1832)
- CLARKE, CHARLES COWDEN (1787-1877)
- CLARKE, EDWARD DANIEL (1769–1822)
- CLARKE, JAMES FREEMAN (1810–1888)
- CLARKE, JOHN SLEEPER (1833–1899)
- CLARKE, MARCUS ANDREW HISLOP (1846–1881)
- CLARKE, MARY ANNE (c.1776–1852)
- CLARKE, SAMUEL (1675–1729)
- CLARKE, SIR ANDREW (1824-1902)
- CLARKE, SIR EDWARD GEORGE (1841– )
- CLARKE, THOMAS SHIELDS (1866- )
- CLARKE, WILLIAM BRANWHITE (1798-1878)
Clarke, and a critical See also:essay by See also:Lord See also:Houghton
.
His See also:prose works were collected by See also:Richard See also:Garnett in ten volumes (1891)
.
See also:Separate novels are included in " See also:Macmillan's Illustrated See also:Standard Novels," with introductions by Mr See also:Saintsbury
.
For an interesting See also:personal See also:notice, see A Poet's See also:Sketch Book, by R
.
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.
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.
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