Date: 1755
"A thousand fond Requests / Croud on my Mind."
preview | full record— Brown, John (1715-1766)
Date: 1755
"Thou, superior to the Frowns / Of Fate, can'st pour thy Sunshine o'er the Soul, / And brighten Woe to Rapture!"
preview | full record— Brown, John (1715-1766)
Date: 1755
"But Tears of Joy: For I have seen ZAPHIRA, / And pour'd the Balm of Peace into her Breast"
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Date: 1755
"Think not these Tears unnerve me, valiant Friends: / They have but harmoniz'd my Soul; and waked / All that is Man within me, to disdain / Peril, or Death."
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Date: 1755
"Can the troubled Brain / Of Sleep out-stretch the Reason's waking Eye?"
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Date: 1755
"Hence--to thy Chamber, till returning Reason / Hath calm'd this Tempest."
preview | full record— Brown, John (1715-1766)
Date: 1755
"Why did I not / Repent, while yet my Crimes were decibel! / Ere they had struck their Colours thro' my Soul, / As black as Night or Hell!"
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Date: 1755
"His bold Resolves have steel'd ZAPHIRA's Breast / Against thy Love"
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Date: 1756
"This heart is become a mere rasa tabula; you must help it to the [GREEK CHARACTERS], you must lay in it the foundation of natural religion, (i.e. "the dictates of common sense, for natural religion, according to Mr. H. is nothing else,) if you would raise the superstr...
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Date: March 1756
"The thought-kindling light, / Thy prime production, darts upon my mind / Its vivifying beams, my heart illumines, / And fills my soul with gratitude and Thee."
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