http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification 720 http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/search?f1-date%3D1801;expand%3Dsubject;f2-subject%3Dletter%20manuscript Results for your query: f1-date=1801;expand=subject;f2-subject=letter manuscript Thu, 14 Jun 2012 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1801-L-117.xml When with you, it is your province to talk: to delight me with the effusions of that noble & ingenuous mind: & so seldom does the occasion offer on which my fastidiousness will permit me to say, what I find no difficulty in writing http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1801-L-117.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1801 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1801-L-118.xml What a melancholy, mortified, perplexed hour has my un= =kind, unaccountable friend given me. I have scarcely strength enough to lift the pen. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1801-L-118.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1801 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1801-L-119.xml So, it seems, my note placed things on their right footing ‘Twas just as it ought to be. To die & be ho‸noured with thy tears—is just the suitable & becoming destiny, which my good angel would assign me http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1801-L-119.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1801 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1801-L-120.xml Seated, I suppose, at her needle is my friend: a thought, now & then, I hope, wandering to me, & a faint solicitude as to how I am. “Is he well? Is he happy?” methinks I hear that tremulous, bewitching voice utter. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1801-L-120.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1801 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1801-L-121.xml I must subdue this disposition to repine, for what but evil can it produce. ‘Twill not render my hold on your affections less precarious than it is, now. It will not cure my own imperfections. It will not enable me so to clothe my feelings that my love will have no longer to doubt my sincerity. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1801-L-121.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1801 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1801-L-122.xml Let me overlook—let me erase, not only from the paper but from memory, all, in this letter, that is mortifying & distressful. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1801-L-122.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1801 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1801-L-123.xml I hope, my best friend, thou wilt be abroad this fine day. If I cannot disengage myself for the same purpose, or am not so fortunate as to meet thee in thy rambles, I will console myself with thinking on thy gratifications. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1801-L-123.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1801 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1801-L-124.xml How arrogant & how ungrateful was, I, to recieve thus gloomily, the offer of thy heart, because thy delicate discretion refused to join with it, thy hand! http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1801-L-124.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1801 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1801-L-125.xml What would I not give that every evening for years to come, were spent like the last. With some improvements I mean. The open air, moist skies, & the frequent passen= =ger, I have no particular attachment to. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1801-L-125.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1801 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1801-L-126.xml So, says my Domestic Physician, you must not incoun ter this sharp breeze. Sore throats are dangerous & the state of your’s requires caution. I will do the out o’door business, myself. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1801-L-126.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1801 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1801-L-127.xml So; you wish me to your task setter. Charming pupil, whom my whole life shall be devoted to instruct in that wisdom that makes happy. Of what value is any other wisdom. The art of extracting from every every event, causes of gratitude & joy; of lifting our self above the prejudices & passions of others; of preserving our contentment unimpaired by their misconduct, while their virtue & prosperity increase our happiness, is the only valuable art. In this do I desire to be, by turns, thy teacher & thy pupil. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1801-L-127.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1801 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1801-L-128.xml What a peevish, discontented wretch was I in my last to thee, my friend. The demon of impatience had got hold of me. Not to be amply, doubly compensated for an disqui =ets, by that bewitching confession! Will my beloved Crea= =ture pardon me? I cannot be at ease till you forgive me. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1801-L-128.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1801 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1801-L-129.xml I write in odd situations. With some always present: generally several & these talking, to me or to each other. How sacred, how desirable is privacy; especially on occasions like these when the mere presence of another, inspires us with some embar =rasment. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1801-L-129.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1801 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1801-L-131.xml What impertinents and headaches. I am more out of humour with this, because it may possibly hinder or mar the walk that we propose tonight. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1801-L-131.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1801 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1801-L-132.xml Know you how I disposed of your precious billet, last night? Sweet tranquilizer did it prove. Inspirer of happy dreams. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1801-L-132.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1801 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1801-L-133.xml Another charming evening with my love! How often shall it be thus, before we part. Thus tender; thus generous; with countenance thus beaming with enraptured sensibility. Nay; more kind shall thou be. Thy tenderness, thy generosity shall know no bounds but those prescribed by virtue & propriety. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1801-L-133.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1801 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1801-L-134.xml Fancy is a kind friend. She was very serviceable, to me this morning. In spite of distance, she enabled me to awake my Love with a morning salutation, & to borrow pleasure & tranquili =ty from her features, as she sat at the breakfast table. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1801-L-134.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1801 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1801-L-135.xml You did sit down, a few minutes in the day, then. Did I guess truly at your motives for sitting? at your employment? On what slender threads, & slight hints does hope hang her visions? I was sadly disappointed that I did not receive the fruits of these few sedentary minutes: but, I trust, I shall recieve them to night http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1801-L-135.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1801 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1801-L-136.xml I believe I am an arrant simpleton; easily deceived; one whom simplicity & love have made credulous. For here’s a girl writes with a pen of dignity & eloquence; utters strains of noble & sublime thought; & calls it nonsense; talks of her shame on shewing it to another.—Now surely all this is jest or affectation. ‘Tis impossible that one capable of writing thus, should not see her own merits Yet I believed the charming dissembler! http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1801-L-136.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1801 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1801-L-137.xml Did you see your friend to day? Yes: to be sure. It is possible, they say, to love too much. That is too much, which breeds impatience & repining, & I sometimes have =need to struggle with the rising gust of my impatience; But I shall always effectually struggle with it. My affection shall be worthy of that adorable creature who is the object of it. It shall never teach me ingratitude to that beneficence who rules my destiny & who has, of late, conferred a blessing so raptu= rous & inestimable http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1801-L-137.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1801 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1801-L-138.xml How sweetly serene, how joyously bright is this day! One of the cares that might have interfered with my enjoyment of it is removed, for I have seen her & she is well. She likewise promises to walk with me at the close of this enchanting day. What spectacle, most delicious, does this World afford? The smile of contentment & serenity on the face we love is that spectacle; with the sweet belief that this contentment is confirmed & this Serenity brightened, by our own presence, welfare & love; And such was the spectacle, which, this morning, I beheld. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1801-L-138.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1801 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1801-L-139.xml How does my friend to day? My longing heart prolongs the two days of our separation into tedious months: more tedi ous has it been on account of the impressions which my mind still retains from our last interview. A renewal of your generosity & tenderness is still requisite compleatly to heal those wounds, which were then inflicted: to compose my spirits again into that state of exquisite complacency & harmony which the preceding week had produced. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1801-L-139.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1801 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1801-L-140.xml What words can sufficiently convey my gratitude for this precious billet! Dost thou wish me to be with thee; to punish thee, my Angel? For that wish am I thy everlasting debtor http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1801-L-140.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1801 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1801-L-141.xml I saw my love, an age ago, but then if any thing could reconcile me to inevitable separation, it would be the pleasure of such interviews. By filling my imagination with images of recent happiness, my soul is kept up to the same elevation. It has now, however, liesure to repine & I would not, for the world, be denied a meeting with you, this afternoon. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1801-L-141.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1801 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1801-L-142.xml Am I not to share with my beloved all my woes. Is she not, henceforth, to be my Eliza. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1801-L-142.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1801 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1801-L-143.xml Did you not request me to be your monitor; your tutor? Yes: Without reflecting on the little eloquence that I possess the little power which the most earnest of my intreaties the most cogent of my reasonings have had upon you. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1801-L-143.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1801 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1801-L-144.xml How strange, how whimsical, that one who can charm thus should talk of being homely & unlovely; one who can write thus, should talk of being stupid & insipid! http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1801-L-144.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1801 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1801-L-145.xml It does not much become a wise man to allow his feelings to be influenced by the atmosphere: Does it? Yet how is it with me? This week has not been chearful & serene as former ones Much, doubtless, must be laid at the door of consequences flowing from the evil skies; to the want of those delicious interviews with which the former week abounded http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1801-L-145.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1801 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1801-L-146.xml The printer has made considerable progress in the publication which I believe I mentioned to you in my last, as having been begun. It will be, typographically considered, a very beautiful book.— http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1801-L-146.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1801 12:00:00 GMT