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Thomas Love Peacock

Születési dátum: 18. október 1785
Halál dátuma: 23. január 1866

Thomas Love Peacock angol költő, regény- és drámaíró.

Apja londoni üvegkereskedő, aki fia születését követően hamarosan elhunyt. Thomas egy magániskolában tanult a surrey-i Englefield Greenben. Korán, már tanulmányai közben elkezdett írni. Első önálló írásai nem voltak túl sikeresek. Az első, The Monks of St. Mark , 1804-ben, a második 1806-ban jelent meg, ezt követte 1810-ben a The Genius of the Thames , a The Philosophy of Melancholy 1812-ben, valamint néhány, nem túl jelentős lírai és egy-két soha elő nem adott színpadi mű.

Rövid ideig a Brit Királyi Haditengerészet egy parancsnokának, Sir Home Riggs Pophamnak magántitkára volt. Ebben az időszakban egy walesi utazása során ismerkedett meg Percy Bysshe Shelley-vel. Első sikereit az 1816-ban kiadott Headlong Hall című novellájával érte el. 1817-ben Great Marlow-ba költözött, ahol napi kapcsolatban volt Shelley-vel. Ebben az évben jelent meg következő novellája, a Melincourt. Itt készült el leghíresebb írása is, a Nightmare Abbey .

Egy volt iskolatársa, Peter Auber közbenjárására 1819-ben munkát kapott a Kelet-indiai Társaságoknál.

1820-ban elvette a walesi Jane Gryffydh-et, akit előtte még sohasem látott. A kezét regénybe illő módon, levélben kérte meg. Négy gyermekük született. Lányuk, Mary Ellen Peacock lett az író és költő George Meredith első felesége.

Édesanyja haláláig a következő művei jelentek meg: Maid Marian , The Misfortunes of Elphin , Crotchet Castle , ezután ideiglenesen cikkírásra korlátozta irodalmi tevékenységét. A Westminster Review és a The Examiner napilapok hasábjain publikált.

A Társaságnál egyre fontosabb feladatokat látott el, többek között sikeresen védte annak liverpooli sóadóval kapcsolatos állásfoglalását James Silk Buckingham támadásai ellenében. Indiába gőzhajózott, ahol a Képviselőház több bizottságában is képviselte a Társaságot. 1835-ben Peacock volt a felelős Francis Rawdon Chesney eufráteszi expedíciójának megtervezéséért és szervezéséért. 1836-ban, James Mill halálát követően átvette annak hivatalát az India House vizsgálóbizottságának élén. 1839 és 1840 között a Kelet-indiai Társaságok főfelügyelőjeként a Jóreménység fokának megkerülésére tervezett acélépítményű gőzhajók kivitelezését felügyelte. Ezeket egyébként az első ópiumháborúban is bevetették. 1856-ban visszavonult, a Kelet-indiai Társaságoktól tisztes nyugdíjban részesült.

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Idézetek Thomas Love Peacock

„My quarrel with him is, that his works contain nothing worth quoting; and a book that furnishes no quotations, is, me judice [in my opinion], no book - it is a plaything.“

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— Thomas Love Peacock, könyv Crotchet Castle

Crotchet Castle, chapter IX. Though not named, the author under discussion is clearly Sir Walter Scott.

„Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horsepond.“

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— Thomas Love Peacock, könyv Melincourt

Melincourt, chapter VII (1817).

„When Scythrop grew up, he was sent, as usual, to a public school, where a little learning was painfully beaten into him, and from thence to the university, where it was carefully taken out of him.“

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— Thomas Love Peacock, könyv Nightmare Abbey

Nightmare Abbey, chapter I (1818).

„There are two reasons for drinking: one is, when you are thirsty, to cure it; the other, when you are not thirsty, to prevent it. The first is obvious, mechanical, and plebeian; the second is most refined, abstract, prospicient, and canonical.“

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— Thomas Love Peacock, könyv Melincourt

Melincourt, chapter XVI.

„I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.“

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— Thomas Love Peacock, könyv Crotchet Castle

Crotchet Castle, chapter XVIII.

„p>The mountain sheep are sweeter
But the valley sheep are fatter;
We therefore deemed it meeter
To carry off the latter.
We made an expedition;
We met a host, and quelled it;
We forced a strong position,
And killed the men who held it…As we drove our prize at leisure,
The king marched forth to catch us:
His rage surpassed all measure,
But his people could not match us.
He fled to his hall-pillars;
And, ere our force we led off,
Some sacked his house and cellars,
While others cut his head off.</p“

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— Thomas Love Peacock

"The War-Song of Dinas Vawr", stanzas 1 and 3, from The Misfortunes of Elphin, chapter XI (1829). In the same chapter this is described as "the quintessence of all the war-songs that ever were written, and the sum and substance of all the appetencies, tendencies, and consequences of military glory".

„MR. PANSCOPE. (suddenly emerging from a deep reverie.) I have heard, with the most profound attention, everything which the gentleman on the other side of the table has thought proper to advance on the subject of human deterioration; and I must take the liberty to remark, that it augurs a very considerable degree of presumption in any individual, to set himself up against the authority of so many great men, as may be marshalled in metaphysical phalanx under the opposite banners of the controversy; such as Aristotle, Plato, the scholiast on Aristophanes, St Chrysostom, St Jerome, St Athanasius, Orpheus, Pindar, Simonides, Gronovius, Hemsterhusius, Longinus, Sir Isaac Newton, Thomas Paine, Doctor Paley, the King of Prussia, the King of Poland, Cicero, Monsieur Gautier, Hippocrates, Machiavelli, Milton, Colley Cibber, Bojardo, Gregory Nazianzenus, Locke, D'Alembert, Boccaccio, Daniel Defoe, Erasmus, Doctor Smollett, Zimmermann, Solomon, Confucius, Zoroaster, and Thomas-a-Kempis.
MR. ESCOT. I presume, sir, you are one of those who value an authority more than a reason.
MR. PANSCOPE. The authority, sir, of all these great men, whose works, as well as the whole of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, the entire series of the Monthly Review, the complete set of the Variorum Classics, and the Memoirs of the Academy of Inscriptions, I have read through from beginning to end, deposes, with irrefragable refutation, against your ratiocinative speculations, wherein you seem desirous, by the futile process of analytical dialectics, to subvert the pyramidal structure of synthetically deduced opinions, which have withstood the secular revolutions of physiological disquisition, and which I maintain to be transcendentally self-evident, categorically certain, and syllogistically demonstrable.
SQUIRE HEADLONG. Bravo! Pass the bottle. The very best speech that ever was made.
MR. ESCOT. It has only the slight disadvantage of being unintelligible.
MR. PANSCOPE. I am not obliged, Sir, as Dr Johnson remarked on a similar occasion, to furnish you with an understanding.
MR. ESCOT. I fear, Sir, you would have some difficulty in furnishing me with such an article from your own stock.
MR. PANSCOPE. 'Sdeath, Sir, do you question my understanding?
MR. ESCOT. I only question, Sir, where I expect a reply, which from what manifestly has no existence, I am not visionary enough to anticipate.
MR. PANSCOPE. I beg leave to observe, sir, that my language was perfectly perspicuous, and etymologically correct; and, I conceive, I have demonstrated what I shall now take the liberty to say in plain terms, that all your opinions are extremely absurd.
MR. ESCOT. I should be sorry, sir, to advance any opinion that you would not think absurd.
MR. PANSCOPE. Death and fury, Sir!
MR. ESCOT. Say no more, Sir - that apology is quite sufficient.
MR. PANSCOPE. Apology, Sir?
MR. ESCOT. Even so, Sir. You have lost your temper, which I consider equivalent to a confession that you have the worst of the argument.
MR. PANSCOPE. Lightnings and devils!“

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— Thomas Love Peacock, könyv Headlong Hall

Headlong Hall, chapter V (1816).

„Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called decent.“

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— Thomas Love Peacock, könyv Crotchet Castle

Crotchet Castle, chapter III (1832).

„I almost think it is the ultimate destiny of science to exterminate the human race.“

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— Thomas Love Peacock, könyv Gryll Grange

Gryll Grange, chapter XIX (1860).

„The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity.“

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— Thomas Love Peacock, könyv Melincourt

Melincourt, chapter XXIV.

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