Nightmare Abbey

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Nightmare Abbey (1818)
by Thomas Love Peacock

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First published in 1818, this transcription is of the first edition.

There are a number of inconsistencies in spelling throughout the work, largely associated with words including 'our' in them, such as favourite; in places it is spelled 'favourite', in others 'favorite.' The transcription follows the printed text.

354318Nightmare Abbey1818Thomas Love Peacock

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 visionsAnd hag themselves with apparitions,Find racks for their own minds, and vauntButler.Of their own misery and want.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR T. HOOKHAM, JUN. OLD BOND-STREET;
AND BALDWIN, CRADOCK, AND JOY,
PATERNOSTER-ROW.

1818.

Printed by Jas. Adlard and Sons,
23, Bartholomew Close.

Matthew. Oh! it's your only fine humour, sir. Yourtrue melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit, sir. I ammelancholy myself, divers times, sir; and then do I nomore but take pen and paper presently, and overflowyou half a score or a dozen of sonnets at a sitting.

Stephen. Truly, sir, and I love such things out ofmeasure.

Matthew. Why, I pray you, sir, make use of mystudy: it’s at your service.

Stephen. I thank you, sir, I shall be bold, I warrantyou. Have you a stool there, to be melancholy upon?

BEN JONSON: Every Man in his Humour.
A. 3. S. 1.

Chapters (not listed in original)

This work was published before January 1, 1930, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.

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