Richard Cambridge, an essayist of the same period as Brown, lamented that every night he would pray that God would let him die first, so that he could see what Heaven looked like before Brown had "improved" it.
與他同時代的一位散文家，就曾經到處嚷嚷，非要「死在布朗前頭」，因為他要趕在天堂被布朗「改良」前，一窺原貌。