Author: Thomas Love Peacock

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2015-07-05

Total Pages: 138

ISBN-13: 9781330875919

Excerpt from Presented to the English Library of the University of Michigan It necessary to make a stand against the en croachments of black bile. Let it be noted that this adversary of the atrabilious was himself the author of The Philosophy of Melancholy and, if Jefferson Hogg's probably exaggerated gossip may be trusted, had posed among his friends as one (platonically) enamoured of suicide. But set a thief to catch a thief. N othing could exceed the sanity of Peacock's pro_test against pessimism except its humour: and it certainly was not nu called for. Wordsworth, indeed, was a grand example of a thoroughly healthy minded author; but his influence had as yet only affected the higher minds. Three years before the publication of Nightmare Abbey, an almost perennial spring of the purest, soundest, most thoroughly genial and most thoroughly objective literature that the world had seen since Homer had been unsealed by the publication of Waverley, but Scott's merits were never adequately recognised by Peacock. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.