Thomas Love Peacock Quote

The present is our own; but while we speak,
We cease from its possession, and resign
The stage we tread on, to another race,
As vain, and gay, and mortal as ourselves.


The Works of Thomas Love Peacock: Poems and plays. 1931 (ed. 1931)


The present is our own; but while we speak, We cease from its possession, and resign The stage we tread on, to another race, As vain, and gay, and...

The present is our own; but while we speak, We cease from its possession, and resign The stage we tread on, to another race, As vain, and gay, and...

The present is our own; but while we speak, We cease from its possession, and resign The stage we tread on, to another race, As vain, and gay, and...

The present is our own; but while we speak, We cease from its possession, and resign The stage we tread on, to another race, As vain, and gay, and...