http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification 720 http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/search?browse-all%3Dyes Results for your query: browse-all=yes Mon, 14 Jan 2013 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1783-MM001.xml http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1783-MM001.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1786-MP001.xml Shall the keen edge of Satans cruel dart, http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1786-MP001.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1787-MP002.xml 'Mongst virtues youthful sons tho' least he stands, http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1787-MP002.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1787-MP003.xml The best of the kind http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1787-MP003.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1787-MP004.xml O muse that oft hath left celestial towers http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1787-MP004.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1787-MP005.xml Ignotis errare Louis Ignota videre Flumina gundabar http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1787-MP005.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1788-05427.xml The counterpart, addressed to the fe- male sex, is requested agreeably to the promise of our ingenious correspondent. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1788-05427.xml Fri, 01 May 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1788-L-001.xml A part of my Son C B Browns Diary — http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1788-L-001.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1788-MP007.xml Wouldst thou my honor'd Brother & my friend http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1788-MP007.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1788-MP008.xml Each muse her Incence to thy banks shall bring http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1788-MP008.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1789-02000.xml THE shade of great Newton shall mourn, http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1789-02000.xml Thu, 26 Feb 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1789-08464.xml IN commencing a work of this kind, it has always been usual to give the reader some acquaint- ance with the person of the au- thor, and to inform him respect- ing the cause of his thus publish- ing his lucubrations to the world; but it has not, I think, been con- sidered as necessary, that the ac- count thus given, should exactly correspond with the truth. Where the case is otherwise, an author would find a disadvantage in dis- closing his real situation, not to be recompensed by any fame or reputation he might derive from his writings. For my part, were I to comply with the uniform ex- ample of my predecessors, I should, I frankly confess, be un- der the necessity of somewhat disguising the truth; but as I in- tend that the sincerity of my cha- racter shall be the principal cha- racteristic of these papers: the public will excuse me in dispen- sing with a rule, which owes its sole authority to custom, without any foundation in reason. It is not my intention to be totally concealed from view. I shall from tim... http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1789-08464.xml Sat, 01 Aug 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1789-09537.xml THE Rhapsodist, though he not unfrequently derives half the materials of his thoughts from an intimate acquaintance with the world, is an enemy to conversati- on. It is indeed, in his fondness for solitude, that the singularity of his character principally con- sists. He loves to converse with beings of his own creation, and every personage, and every scene, is described with a pencil dipt in the colours of imagination. To his strong and vivid fancy, there is scarcely a piece of mere unanimated matter existing in the universe. His presence inspires, being, instinct, and reason into every object, real or imagined, and the air, the water and the woods, wherever he directs his steps, are thronged with innume- rable inhabitants. The pleasures of company and conversation con- stitute the only happiness of some; but the rhapsodist is incapable of tasting pleasure, when he is in- debted for it to the presence of a third person. Whether the hours be spent in mirth and pleasantry, surrounded by a circle of the young a... http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1789-09537.xml Tue, 01 Sep 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1789-10587.xml IT was but two days since, that the letter mentioned in my se- cond number, was presented to me. In vain the Rhapsodist announces to his Readers, that he hates the intrusion of a visitor. Nothing but the rights of the strictest friendship (for the circle of my friends is numerous, though, my disposition is averse to friendship) will entitle any one to demand a private audience from him. In spite of my pretensions to unlimit- ed sovereignty over my own person and actions. In spite of my strong original propensity to silence and reserve, I am, in some measure, compelled to pay obedience, tho' grudgingly, to the laws of society. Thus, indeed, it fares with every one who aspires to the fame of sin- gularity. He, who affects the man- ners of a recluse, and demeans him- self in the midst of a populous ci- ty, like the lonely inhabitant of a desert, will often incur the censure of inveterate folly. While he feels his imaginary rights infringed, and the sanctity of the hermit disre- garded; men are little prone to sp... http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1789-10587.xml Thu, 01 Oct 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1789-11661.xml IT may probably be expected that the Rhapsodist will now proceed to gratify his reader's curi- osity, by submitting to his critical inspection, the rest of that curious performance of which the purport has already been explained in the sequel of my former paper. I know not whether the limits to which reason and convenience na- turally restrict the writer of perio- dical essays, will admit of so diffuse a composition.—But perhaps it will not be absolutely necessary to com- prise the whole in a single paper, nor will it be less acceptable, tho' delivered out by piece-meal. The essay may be broken down into e- qual though detached portions, and by means of my judicious distribu- tion of the several parts, the frag- ments may be so disposed as to ren- der a due connexion of the subject, and a regular arrangement of my author's critical remarks, a very entertaining, and by no means a laborious task. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1789-11661.xml Sun, 01 Nov 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1789-MP009.xml To thee enchanting nymph, in artless guise, http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1789-MP009.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1789-MP010.xml To thee, Estrina, empress of my heart http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1789-MP010.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1790-L-002.xml Emilius, the friend of Charles, demands his opinion on the following question: he had reason to believe himself be- loved by Arabella, a lady for whom he entertained every sentiment but that of love. She was young, beautiful and accomplished, and possessed every qualification to ensure happiness to a lover. His connection with this lady was perfectly honourable. He had beguiled her with no promises, nor had he ever in a single in- stance encouraged her to cherish the belief, that he was bound by a stronger tie than that of friendship. On the contrary it had been his study to be peculiarly circumspect and guarded. In short whatever motives she might have to persevere in her ad- dresses, he had supplied her with none; and the blame if any must be attributed to the indulge... http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1790-L-002.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1790-MM002.xml I am never so happy as when employed in writing to my friend; and I am willing to perswade myself that he recieves no less pleasure from answering than I from the composition of my letters. What a scribbler have I suddenly become! and how many of those hours do I now devote to the pen which were formerly engrossed by the needle, and the book. It is true that your performances have be made me more attached to my Music, than I have formerly been. I pay more attention to it than is, perhaps, consistent with a prudent distribution of my time, but that is of small importance when compared to the time which I dedicate to our correspondence I protest I think, that, if we proced, for a considerable period, in this manner I shall begin to imagine myself your rival in composition. I know you value yourself extreemly, and with justice, on the ease and vigour and correctness of your Style. Be assured my friend I never shall be able to contend with you in those quallifications, but in th... http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1790-MM002.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1791-04002.xml HARK!—hear'st thou not the sweetly swelling strain http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1791-04002.xml Sat, 25 Apr 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1791-05018.xml ALIGHTED from the azure sky, http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1791-05018.xml Thu, 14 May 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1791-06067.xml HAST thou not seen upon some night serene, http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1791-06067.xml Thu, 25 Jun 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1791-07094.xml AWAY each soft and tender bliss— http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1791-07094.xml Mon, 20 Jul 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1791-L-003.xml Listen my friend. The diallogue is short but singular. Heaven has perhaps not hitherto afforded you the opportunity of being present at a similar Interview. Ah! This is vain that I endeavour to describe it to you. My powers are unequal to the undertaking. Tis only by the eye and ear that any just conception of the Scene can be communicated. The passionate and visionary Youth! His whole soul appeared to be absorbed in the contemplation of one idea. The world had vanished; Nature was extinct; Nothing was seen but the bearer, of the precious the inestimable letter. See, in his countenance and manner, what mark of phrantic eagerness and impetuosity. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1791-L-003.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1792-03365.xml NATURE, sweet mistress of the pensive mind! http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1792-03365.xml Sat, 14 Mar 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1792-L-004.xml It is certain that in general the excellence of the workmanship depends upon the nature of the tools, which are employed in executing it but I know not whether the quill of a crow is better than of that of the goose, or whether it is plucked from a Nobler Animal. I once was guilty of a Peter-pindarical performance in which those ‸creatures were converted into orators and were suffered to plead, each his own cause, in presence of a critical judicature. And what decision do you think? As I have not now the piece, I cannot certainly inform you, but there is reason to Imagine that http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1792-L-004.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1792-L-005.xml Here am I seated at my desk. With pen and all the writing implements at hand; and shall I not employ them? Yes in good sooth I will, and they shall, for the present, be devoted to the pious use of shewing my friend that his absence does not annihilate him; his local absence for he is always intellectually present, and as he stands almost single in the Writers catalogue of Friends, my soul principally converses with his kindred spirit.—Lend me your wings I pray you, tend me your wings http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1792-L-005.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1792-L-006.xml "What, my friend, art thou certainly awake? Or is it that I am dreaming? No, I believe you incapable of adulation: and yet there are some parts of your acceptable epistle, which are ex- tremely suspicious. But your motives do not only excuse, but justify you; when a friend is sinking into a quicksand or strug- gling with a suffocating stream, there is nothing can betide him which is so dangerous as despair; and one, who, though near at hand, is unable to afford him any personal assistance, cannot be more serviceable to him, than by cherishing his hopes, and keep- ing him from yielding to despair; and if in the ardour of our exhortations, and the precipitancy of our zeal, we chance to de- viate from rigid truth, and facilitate his escape, by invigorating his efforts with flattering representations of his power, and delu- ... http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1792-L-006.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1792-L-007.xml I have been conversing with Rousseau. I have, since ten OClock, been flying with a rapturous attention through his illumined and impassioned pages. Notwithstanding the obscurities and difficulties of a foreign tongue of which my knowledge is extreemly imperfect I can easily percieve the transcendant excellence of this performance. What a model of pathetic eloquence! Thus it must always be when the sentiments are the genuine offspring of the heart: when we speak with the voice of truth and nature. Love has been said to be the most prevalent and universal of human passion; And yet what numbers have never felt its influence? How much idle declamation has it occasioned? I have always been of opinion that it is impossible for any one to judge of the truth and accuracy of of representation of the progress and effects of love, who has not pe... http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1792-L-007.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1792-L-008.xml O My friend! Can I stay the torrent of my emotions? Can I stiffle the burst of tenderness or check the tears of rapture, with which my heart was agitated and my eyes suffused, on the perusal of thy letter? Shall I suffer them to fall unheeded? Shall not my pen, fly with tenfold rapidity at this transporting moment? Thou eloquent and amiable Preacher! This is the argument which is adapted to convince me. This the mode of demonstration which leaves me not at liberty to doubt or to dissent. All thy reasonings would have been unavailable, but thou hast now furnished thy hand of with the Rod of Hermes whose slightest wafture dissipates the mists of incredulity and inconviction Knowest thou not that age and experience have only ‸ have only augmented the enthusiasm of thy Correspondent.? That he is still ‸ a vis... http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1792-L-008.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1792-L-009.xml "Consolation" didst thou say? Ah! It is a much higher gratification: It ‸ is the felicity after which I languish: It constitutes the only happiness of which I can be sencible http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1792-L-009.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1792-L-010.xml Tarry a little, my good friend. I want only to furnish myself at this Booksellers shop, with a Rhyming dictionary, and to rob younder Crow of a quill or two, and then I will attend you on your journey to the paradise of poets. I will contribute my endeavours to unsphere the soul of VIDA, and compell the presence of the jest-provoking, wit-dissecting, Eight-syllable'd Thalia. Alas! my friend, these are only my wishes. Neither my leisure nor abilities will suffer me to prosecute my Undertaking. To write indeed like Peter Pindar would not, I believe be very difficult, but were I to undertake the prise enterprise I should scorn to talk in such barbarous diallect, but should endeavour to emulate the polished elegance and classical purity of Pope and Vida. Writers whose celebrated performances I should wish attentively to ... http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1792-L-010.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1792-L-011.xml I devote almost all my leisure to the transcription of those letters of which I have already shewn you a specimen. I think I have already assured ‸ you that those letters are genuine, and I suppose you easily percieve that one of the parties in this correspondence is myself. Consider then my friend, what felicity I must have heretofore enjoyed, and whether one to whom recollection is at once a source of happiness and misery unspeakable can take much delight in playing, or poeticising upon, Loo. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1792-L-011.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1792-L-012.xml Why is my inclination not attended with ability? Why do I find myself disposed to write without experiencing that rigor of conviction and facility of utterance of which I have at other times been sensible? Unseasonable langors take possession of me. Joyless slumbers weigh down my eye-lids. Not even the idea of my beloved friend, for whom, notwithstanding an impatient and capricious disposition, I entertain the most ardent and sincere affection, of which my heart is at this waning era of my existence susceptible, can banish this oppressive listlessness and rouse me into watchfulness or activity. What expe- dient shall I practice to restore me to the empire of my thoughts? How the curtain of each eye gradually falls, how the objects vanish by degrees "remote and small"! My pen moves with difficulty through the line. Each l... http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1792-L-012.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1792-L-013.xml I very much regret that my last last letter was so perfect and inexplicable an Ænigma. I do not, my dearest friend, recollect that any thing was contained in it which could render it absolutely unintelligible, or warrant my ingenious Correspondent in answering it by a riddle which to me is solutionless and incomprehensible, unless it were the abruptness of the conclusion; but this I hope will be forgiven when you are told, that just as I had finished the concluding sentence, a messenger informed me that all the letters which were go to America by the Harmony, must be sent immediately to Deptford, & that a single moments delay would prevent thier passing the Atlantic in that Ship. There was, therefore, my friend, a necessity for finishing my letter instantly, and to this cause you will be so good as to ascribe the obscurities or inaccura... http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1792-L-013.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1792-L-014.xml Write to me, my friend, I beseach you in a less melancholy style. I would set you an example, but that I fear, in my present situation is impossible but I shall always be prepared to smile at the elegant vivacities of my dearest William, and to applaud the effusions of his wit and gayety. They are rays which illume the gloomy atmosphere by which I am frequently surrounded whose approach I hail with the utmost pleasure, and whose departure I observe withou the utmost regret. I wish thou wouldest teach me to be witty to tell, with suitable gravity, a mirthful tale, and to give to the thread-bare Jest its original texture and the gloss of Novelty. These accomplishments are of wonderful Advantage, they will render him, who, in other respects is incorrigi bly obstinate or stupid, an agreable companion, and without them, the man of real Geniu... http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1792-L-014.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1792-L-015.xml I have, my dearest friend, pretty copiously explained my present situation in a letter which I have just transmitted to W W.W. The perusal of which will sufficiently apprize you of all the circumstances, necessary to the comprehention of that before you, and will therefore take away the necessity of repetition. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1792-L-015.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1792-L-016.xml My friend, I cannot express the pleasure with which I read your ‸ letter The more accurately I know you the more my affection and esteem for you are heightend, and I exclaim involuntarily, "Surely in the spacious world there is no one ‸ for whom it is possible ‸ for me to feel a more sincere and ardent attachment than to this admirable correspondent? Who is more worthy of my friendship? And shall he not possess it? Yes. Whatever be his sentiments with regard to me, whether he esteem or despise me, I shall always contemplate his image with the Enthusiasm of a friend. My heart already flutters with joy at his approach Serenity and chearfullness accompany him. I should struggle in vain to be unhappy in his presence; but melancholy oppresses me at his departure. Let me assiduously cultivate his good opinion. Let me introduce him to the ... http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1792-L-016.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1792-L-017.xml Proceed my friend in your career. I cannot follow you. My Ambition is no more. The Situation which I have just described is not my present situation; but what would I not do to facilitate the progress of my friend. What mighty effects might not be produced by the Union of yourself and Wilkins and me, in the prosecution of any laudable disign How would every obstacle vanish before our united efforts? What various and cogent motives of perseverance would not be furnished by our combination?— http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1792-L-017.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1792-L-018.xml I am extreemly pleased with your vision, and you cannot easily concieve how highly I am gratified on finding that the poor neglected and disponding Julius is sometimes present in the airy parties of slumbering fancy. That in sleep, as well as in wakefulness I am not forgotten. Surely it is impossible to solicit heaven to confer greater felicity upon you, than that which arises from a continual succession of dreams like those. I wish I wish I were so fortunate a visionary, and that, during sleep, my soul could mingle at will, with the beings that people the world of Allegory, but the priviledge of dreaming to any agreable or useful purpose is denied me, and I am forced to be contented with insipid realities or at least with those shadowy and fleeting images which the wand of wakeful Imagination can call into existance. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1792-L-018.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1792-L-019.xml There are certain persons, who, in all their enterprises display ‸ an ardour and impetuosity, which never fails to infect those by whom they are surrounded They impart to others the same enthusiasm by which themselves are actuated. This is certainly the characteristick of the noblest minds, but whether my friend has exhibited any proofs of this intellectual elevation I cannot certainly determine, or whether any opportunity has hitherto been afforded him of shewing it. There are only two persons within the sphere of its influence, of whom one, would, if his passions of a different kind were at rest, want not extrinsic or additional incitement to the pursuit of literary excellence, and the other I am sorry to observe that I think the indifference with which he regards those sublime objects of Juvenile and rational Ambition absolutely incu... http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1792-L-019.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1792-L-020.xml Joseph Bringhurst ~ http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1792-L-020.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1792-L-021.xml I am extremely Sorry to hear that you are indisposed. The debt which you have, with so much difficulty, discharged, I could have easily forgiven you. Think me not the Slave of Ceremony, and believe that the pleasure which I derive from the employment, would be a sufficien motive to uphold this correspondense by my single strength http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1792-L-021.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1792-L-022.xml As I have already observed my dear friend, I lay no claim to the reputation of Sagacity, but to to obtain a knowledge of those with whom we happen to converse, and are ‸ not studious of concealment, little more is necessary than common sense and a‸ a disposition to observe. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1792-L-022.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1792-L-023.xml "I have read your letter. It is short. I wish to answer it with equal brevity. (Have I not reason to suppose that long letters from me, if they ever were, have now ceased to be acceptable?) But a brief answer is impossible; excuse therefore my prolixi- ty. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1792-L-023.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1792-L-023A.xml In answer to your note I shall transcribe a part of what I hastily wrote as soon as I hastily parted from you yesterday morning, in a self-arraigning disposition: http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1792-L-023A.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1792-L-024.xml To: Joseph Bringhurst Jun— Front Street— http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1792-L-024.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1792-L-026.xml No sooner have I read your letter than I borrow Ink and paper from the friendly Poulson, and sit down instantly to write an answer. The seriousness with which you speake and the striking and affecting manner in which you describe your emotions on the perusal of mine from the banks of Deleware, produced in me sensations which I will not attempt to describe. What have I written (said I to myself.) that could justly occasion so much terror and alarm? This is a manner of address to which I have not lately been accustomed and have I not reason to congratulate myself on finding having once more found a persons who can be so greatly interested in my welfare? That he is capable of feeling pain on my account I cannot reflect without a new and uncommon kind of pleasure; and felt that this pain is ac... http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1792-L-026.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1792-L-027.xml I have read your letter with the utmost satisfaction. I hope that the continuance of this correspondence will not prove disagreable or inconvenient to you. I perswade myself that if it be suffered to proceed, I should derive the highest entertainment and instruction from it, and may I not flatter myself that it is calculated to afford you equal pleasure & improvement? I am not vain enough to imagine that my weak and desultory efforts will, in any degree facilitate the discovery of truth. I do not pretend to be rasoner and shall do little more, at any time, than throw upon the page the conceptions of the moment, than mingle, with capricious eagerness and copiousness, the streem of Sentiment and fancy, amuse my able ‸ amiable correspondent with the air built Structures of a wild, undisciplined, intractable ... http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1792-L-027.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1792-L-028.xml The more I reflect the more clearly do I percieve that love and friendship are no otherwise distinguished from each other than in name. Friendship therefore can be understood rightly only by those whose bosoms have felt the emotions of love. Friendship constitutes my felicity. Without a friend I am miserable. Power! Riches! Reputati Sounds of mine unmeaning emptiness! The discovery of a kindred Spirit would indeed afford me pleasure and rconcile me to existance, and I live only in the expectation of deserving a friend. "What (do I not hear you say?) do you not find a friend in me?' No, let me perish if I do. Mistake me not however. I must again repeat, that friendship is, perhaps, more pure but certainly not less violent than. ‸ love Between friends there must exist an perfect and intire Similarity of di... http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1792-L-028.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1792-L-029.xml I have, this moment, received my friend’s letter. I suppose I ought to have gone to the packet. It may not be usual to leave letters at the houses of those to whom they were directed. If you purpose to maintain a regular corrspondnce, you shall never have reason to charge me with indolence or negligence. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1792-L-029.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1792-L-030.xml Dear Friend http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1792-L-030.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1792-L-031.xml "Why, my friend, is there so wide an interval between the writing and the reception of your letters? That which I receiv- ed last evening, is dated November 4, and was delivered to me by a person who, passing through Trenton, saw it at a ta- vern, and made himself, through mere politeness, the bearer of it. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1792-L-031.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1792-L-032.xml There is a kind of intercourse which I wish to maintain with you. how shall I describe it? In what language do we speak to our own hearts? Are you master of it? If you are you will understand me when I tell you that it is in that language, that I wish to converse with you http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1792-L-032.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1792-L-033.xml You seem, my friend, to think very highly of the importance of correctness in common speech. Have you had always these opinions? But your ideas of excellence are extremely nice, if you think that you are guilty of shameful inaccuracies. I sincerely affirm, that I never met a more correct speaker than yourself, but one, and he can only be excepted because, in my opinion, it was impossible to go beyond him in this respect. I am indeed an imperfect observer, and to this cause you may, if you will, impute it, that I have not yet discovered those faults which it seems are so visible to your own discernment http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1792-L-033.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1792-L-034.xml Dear friend http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1792-L-034.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1792-L-035.xml I must solicit your forgiveness for thus delaying my answer to your last letter; it was occasioned by accidents that could not be prevented or avoided. How infinitely and inexpressibly agreable is this correspondence and what pleasure shall we not hereafter derive from reviewing it! I hope nothing but necessity will ever put an end to it. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1792-L-035.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1792-L-036.xml What abundance of absurdity and impertinence is there in this wearisome and worthless world. He whose passions have decorated some real object with imaginary charms, and exalted moderate excellence into absolute perfection, is happy as long as his delusion lasts, but surely miserable when it is at ‸ an end, and more deplorable ‸ is his condition than if he had never been deluded. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1792-L-036.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1792-L-037.xml I received a letter from you yesterday, in which you kindly express the doubts and apprehensions which the failure of your former letter produced. That it failed was, I now perceive, the fault of neither of us. There ought to be some fixed and settled method of conveyance between us or we shall both of us be in perpetual uncertainty. I have hitherto sent my letters by the Trenton stage boat, and not knowing that there was any more expeditious or convenient method. You would acquit me of all blame, if you knew how often, since I despatched my last, I have called at this boat in expectation of receiving an answer, nor was your supposed silence less productive of uneasiness to me than, as you kindly assure me, my seeming neglect was to you. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1792-L-037.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1792-MP011.xml By all the rules of Equity below http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1792-MP011.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1792-MP012.xml In 'Delphy town http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1792-MP012.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1792-MP013.xml Attend! Ye sisters of celestial birth! http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1792-MP013.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1792-MP014.xml Profuse and prolix is the treat http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1792-MP014.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1792-MP015.xml Of sweet little things, a sweet musical string http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1792-MP015.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1792-MP016.xml When Bringhurst and Wilkins are here http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1792-MP016.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1793-L-038.xml I have just recieved your letter though dated an age ago. The post will doubtless be the best method of conveyance; but you say you you will pay the postage of your letters. I make the less objection to this proposal, as I have it in my power to be even with you, by paying the expence of mine http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1793-L-038.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1793-L-039.xml Dear friend; I said truth when I said that my silences arose principally from the silences of the weather, for this serene and lightsome atmosphere has had a corresponding effect upon my intellects “Ah tis a happy revolution here” http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1793-L-039.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1793-L-040.xml My dear friend http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1793-L-040.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1793-L-041.xml My Dear Friend http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1793-L-041.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1793-L-042.xml My dearest friend http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1793-L-042.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1793-L-043.xml My dear friend http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1793-L-043.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1793-L-044.xml I reflect upon my present situation with a surprise that time has hardly yet subdued. On considering that two months ago, Connecticut was utterly a stranger to me; That the only person in it to whom I was known, knew me scarcely otherwise than by letter, that even personal acquaintance was short, accidental, superficial, and such, as with any other person would scarcely have given me a right to accost him at a distance, and that in less than a fortnight, I should be personally introduced to almost every considera =ble person in it, be treated by ten or fifteen most almiable men with the affectionate familiarity and confidence of a brother, to be adopted as it were, to be admitted into the bosom of many perfectly respectable and enlightened families, is surely wonderful. I know not whether I can give you a just idea of my situation. It i... http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1793-L-044.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1793-L-045.xml My dear friend http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1793-L-045.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1793-L-046.xml I cannot help regretting that I did not receive these invaluable letters while I was in Connecticut. They would have prevented abundance of anxiety and uneasiness, and rendered the remainder of the time that I passed there infinitely more pleasing. However unseasonable as they are, they are highly acceptable. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1793-L-046.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1793-L-047.xml My dear Friend http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1793-L-047.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1793-L-047A.xml I think the date of Year erroneous In Aug 29. 1793 – neither of them were acquainted with Laura. } Aug. 29. 1793 http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1793-L-047A.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1793-L-048.xml My dear friend, http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1793-L-048.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1793-MM003.xml arrived as speedily as thou could wish it. If thy ingagements would I should insist upon thy presence with us; Thy fancy has not been to the truth: The Scienc of our several operations are indeed sufficiently t this letter is a proof that the elements in which our minds ly the same: http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1793-MM003.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1793-MM004.xml [recto side of page:] http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1793-MM004.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1793-MM005.xml Thou hast a generous correspondent my Susan. I wish thy engagements would suffer thee to vye with him in generosity: Yet would thou be more laudably employed then than now: if time made not those demands on thy attention and activity which it now makes, would it not furnish ‸thee with more useful employ -ment than that of writing league-long letters ‸to me That is a question: but if I should be obliged to answer yes: I must add, that I ‸can conceive an hundred occupa =tions, all specious and grave, which would be of less Utility than ‸that of furnishing R.H. with new motives to virtue and diligence http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1793-MM005.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1794-L-049.xml My dear Sir http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1794-L-049.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1794-L-049A.xml Phila~February Sunday 24. 1794~ http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1794-L-049A.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1794-L-050.xml It will doubtless be pleasing to be assured that your hospitable intentions towards me were answered, and that I owe to you particularly, as much pleasure as I ever experienced on a like occasion, and that my excursion to New York, will long be remembered by me with the most pleasing emotions. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1794-L-050.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1794-L-051.xml Under what pretence, can I expect thy peru= =sal of the enclosed Verses? No one can be more conscious of his unworthiness, how little he merits that regard and esteem to which however he so ardently aspires. Wilt thou condescend so much as not to be displeased at the boldness of this Adress? That it requires the most earnest apologies, I am very cer= =tain;—that any Apologies will be sufficient I cannot but doubt. Yet what may not be expected from the candour of the person whom I am now addressing. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1794-L-051.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1794-L-052.xml My Dear Friend, http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1794-L-052.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1794-MP018.xml Accept my friend this guide to truth. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1794-MP018.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1794-MP018b.xml My friend,† rare merit to thy name belongs, http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1794-MP018b.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1795-L-053.xml Our brother Joseph is just leaving us. Had I any thing to occupy a Sheet, a sheet should be employed, but there are no topics of conversation between us, which will not be much better discussed by word of mouth, between my two Brothers. What of importance has occurred since your departure? An event of very great moment, and the least expected that could almost possibly occur, has indeed been witnessed by us. It has been of particular importance to me. Wilkins’ life was, indeed, the pledge of my Success in the legal profession. It was necessary also to my qualification as an Atorney. The Knowledge that was necessary, most necessary, practical Skill, the result of experience, was only derivable from him. It is his death that hatth prevented me from fulfilling your expectations, and obliged me to defer my ad... http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1795-L-053.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1795-L-054.xml In September, 1795, after a visit to New York, he writes to the same, “Soon after my return, I began the design of which we talked so much. I had planned so that I could finish a work equal in extent to Caleb Williams in less than six weeks; and wrote a quantity equivalent to ten of his (Godwin’s) pages daily, till the hot weather and inconvenient circumstances obliged me to relax my diligence. Great expedition does not seem very desira¬ble. Tenets so momentous require a leisurely and deep examina¬tion; and much meditation, reading, and writing, I presume, are necessary to render my system of morality perfect in all its parts, and to acquire a full and luminous conviction; but I have not stopped—I go on, though less precipitately than at first, and hope finally to produce something valuable for its utility.” The work her... http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1795-L-054.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1795-L-055.xml Tuesday, 22nd http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1795-L-055.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1795-L-056.xml Friday, 23rd http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1795-L-056.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1795-L-057.xml I have just recieved your letter. I delivered the enclosed immediately. Whatever fault is imputable to you, or on whomsoever censure may justly fall in this affair, I am well perswaded that a continuance of this Correspondence of yours with Stella, can answer no good end. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1795-L-057.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1795-L-058.xml I shall not I fear be able to finish and dispatch this today as you so anxiously desire. It is already near ten: so you must wait a day or two longer. You put a severe construction upon both parts of my letter. I meant not to impute to you bigotry or more than a very common and natural degree of zeal for the truth: yet certainly a Zeal that, in its effects, is somewhat censurable. I far more sincerely condemn and more anxiously lament my ‸ own incapacity of bearing with complacency the heat and impetuosity of others in debate. than in http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1795-L-058.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1795-L-059.xml Saturday, 12th http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1795-L-059.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1795-L-060.xml Wednesday, 30th. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1795-L-060.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1795-L-061.xml I was going to apologize for my negligence, but a moments reflexion convinced me that my negligence admitted of no apology, and that the only way was to repair the injury of past negligence by future punctuality But though I cannot excuse, is there no possibility of accounting for this negligence? Dunlap has written to me, and in a manner that required an immediate answer, and yet not an answering line has he recieved from me. How have I been employed you will ask me? In truth I know not. I have slumbered rather than been busy in the bosom, as you say, of literary indolence. Comparatively with yours, my situation is happy and tran =quil: My Soul sympathises my friend, in your misfortunes, but while I condole with you on your calamities, I cannot help congratulating you on one consolation: for the sake of which my heart would willingly... http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1795-L-061.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1796-L-062.xml I have just recieved yours. I shall readily admit the excuse for not being frequent or punctual in your Correspondence. In your present Situation you have doubtless but little liesure to look so far as this from your immediate ingagements. Had I recollected that there was a key in my possession, capable of unlocking the desk I might have saved Isaac Miclle the trouble of paying you a visit to I found the papers of which he was in search immedi= -ately on looking for them. Elihu Smith was to have been here last Evening. The badness of the roads, or some accident has prevented his arrival yet. I knew not that he intended to go to you at Wilmington If it be, I shall encourage him in it, but doubt whether I shall be able to bear him company. I shall, however, at least, send with him my love to you and my warmest respects to... http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1796-L-062.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1796-L-063.xml Four months afterward, he again wrote to his friend Dunlap; "After wandering through fifty pages, the experiment was sufficiently made, and the thorough consciousness that I was unfitted for the instructer’s chair, that my style was feeble and diffuse, my method prolix and inaccurate, my reasoning crude and superficial, and my knowledge narrow and undigested, suddenly benumbed my fingers: I dropped the pen, and I sunk into silent and solitary meditation on the means of remedying these defects." http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1796-L-063.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1796-L-064.xml Saturday, 23rd http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1796-L-064.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1796-L-065.xml Recd. a long letter from C.B. Brown. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1796-L-065.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT