Charles Brockden Brown

1771 - 1810 *

pioneering American gothic novelist

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I do not love thee, Doctor Fell,
The reason why I cannot tell;
But this alone I know full well,
I do not love thee, Doctor Fell. -- Laconics.

Tom Brown

To treat a poor wretch with a bottle of Burgundy, and fill his snuff-box, is like giving a pair of laced ruffles to a man that has never a shirt on his back. -- Laconics.

Tom Brown

In the reign of Charles II. a certain worthy divine at Whitehall thus addressed himself to the auditory at the conclusion of his sermon: "In short, if you don't live up to the precepts of the Gospel, but abandon yourselves to your irregular appetites, you must expect to receive your reward in a certain place which 't is not good manners to mention here." -- Laconics.

Tom Brown

Now let us thank the Eternal Power: convinced
That Heaven but tries our virtue by affliction,--
That oft the cloud which wraps the present hour
Serves but to brighten all our future days. -- Barbarossa. Act v. Sc. 3.

John Brown

And coxcombs vanquish Berkeley by a grin. -- An Essay on Satire, occasioned by the Death of Mr. Pope.

John Brown

A Garden is a lovesome thing, God wot!
Rose plot,
Fringed pool,
Ferned grot,
The veriest school of Peace; and yet the fool contends that God is not--
Not God! in Gardens! when the eve is cool?
Nay, but I have a sign:
'T is very sure God walks in mine. -- My Garden.

Thomas Edward Brown

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