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Eighteenth-Century E-Texts — W

This page, edited by Jack Lynch, is part of the larger collection of Eighteenth-Century E-Texts on the Net.

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Walker, Mrs. Spencer

• Commemorative Feelings, or Miscellaneous Poems (1812) (BWRP)

Waller, Edmund

• Go, Lovely Rose (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• Old Age (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• On a Girdle (Oxford Book of English Verse)

Walpole, Horace

• The Castle of Otranto (1764):
  • The Castle of Otranto (Jack Lynch, Rutgers)
  • The Castle of Otranto (Gutenberg)
• Historic Doubts on the Life and Reign of King Richard the Third (1768) (Richard III Society)

Walsh, William (1663-1708)

• Rivals (Oxford Book of English Verse)

Walton, Izaak

• The Compleat Angler:
  • The Complete Angler (Renascence Editions)
  • The Complete Angler (Gutenberg)
• By Others:
  • Andrew Lang, Introduction to The Compleat Angler (Gutenberg)

Warren, Mercy Otis (1728-1814)

• The Adulateur (1773)
• The Blockheads (1776)
• The Defeat
• The Group (1775)
• The History of the Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution:
  • History of the Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution (1805) (Liberty Fund — PDF)
  • The Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution (1805)
• The Motley Assembly (1779)

Warton, Joseph

• The Enthusiast; or, The Lover of Nature (1744) (Jack Lynch, Rutgers)
• Ode to Fancy (Toronto)

Warton, Thomas

• The Pleasures of Melancholy — Annotated by students of Tom Kinsella at Stockton College.

Washington, George

• Collected and Selected Works:
  • George Washington Papers (Library of Congress) — An in-progress edition of over 65,000 MSS from the Library of Congress.
  • A Collection (Liberty Fund — PDF)
• Address to Colonel Nicola (FreedomShrine)
• Farewell Address (1796):
  • Farewell Address, September 19, 1796 (Liberty Fund — PDF)
  • Farewell Address (1796) (FreedomShrine)
• First Inaugural Address (1789) (FreedomShrine)
• Rules of Civility and Decent Behaviour in Company and Conversation

Watling, Thomas (b. 1762)

• Letters from an Exile at Botany Bay (1794) (SETIS)

Watson, Thomas

• A Divine Cordial (1663) (CCEL)
• The Lord's Prayer (CCEL)
• The Ten Commandments (CCEL)

Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)

• Collected and Selected Works:
  • Divine and Moral Songs (CCEL)
  • The Psalms and Hymns of Isaac Watts (CCEL)
• A Cradle Hymn (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• The Day of Judgement (Oxford Book of English Verse)

Webbe, Charles (c. 1678)

• Against Indifference (Oxford Book of English Verse)

Webster, Noah

• An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828) (Christian Technologies, Inc.) — Searchable text.

Wells, Thomas E. (1782-1833)

• Michael Howe: The Last and Worst of the Bush-Rangers of Van Dieman's Land (1834) (SETIS)

Wesley, John

• Collected and Selected Works:
  • A Collection of Hymns for the Use of the People Called Methodists (1876 ed.) (CCEL)
  • Sermons:
    • Sermons on Several Occasions (1771) (CCEL)
• Journal (Tyndale Series)
• A Plain Account of Christian Perfection
• Thoughts Upon Slavery

Wheatley, Phyllis

• Collected and Selected Works:
  • Selected Poems (Poetry Archives)
• An Elegy to Dr. Samuel Cooper:
  • An Elegy to Dr. Samuel Cooper (Virginia)
  • An Elegy, Sacred to the Memory of Dr Cooper (1783) (Virginia)
• Poems on Various Subjects:
  • Poems on Various Subjects (Richard Bear, Oregon)
  • Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (Gutenberg)

White, Gilbert

• The Natural History of Selborne (Gutenberg)

White, Henry Kirke (1785-1806)

• Poetical Works (Gutenberg)

Whitefield, George

• A Letter to John Wesley

Wieland, Christoph Martin

• Geschichte des Agathon (in German) (Gutenberg):
  • Teil I
  • Teil II
• Oberon (Gutenberg)

Wilcox, Asa

• Asa Willcox's Book of Figures (1793) (Library of Congress)

Williams, Helen Maria

• Collected and Selected Works:
  • Selections from Poems (1786) (Michael Gamer, Penn)
• The Bastille: A Vision (Adriana Craciun, Loyola Univ.)
• To Sensibility (Stuart Curran, Penn)

Willison, John

• A Fair and Impartial Testimony (1808) (CCEL)

Wilson, Harriette

• Paris Lions and London Tigers (1825) (Chawton House Library)

Wilson, Thomas

• The Complete System of English Country Dancing (1815) (page images at Library of Congress)

Winstanley, Gerrard

• The True Levellers Standard Advanced: or, The State of Community Opened, and Presented to the Sons of Men

Wirtemberska, Maria

• Malwina (1812) — In Polish.

Wolfe, Charles (1791-1823)

• The Burial of Sir John Moore after Corunna (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• To Mary (Oxford Book of English Verse)

Woolley, Hannah

• The Gentlewoman's Companion: or, A Guide to the Female Sex (1675) (Emory)

Wollstonecraft, Mary

• An Historical and Moral View of the Origin and Progress of the French Revolution (1795) (Liberty Fund — PDF)
• Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark (Gutenberg)
• Maria, or The Wrongs of Woman (Virginia)
• Mary, a Fiction (Munseys)
• A Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790) (Liberty Fund — PDF)
• A Vindication of the Rights of Woman:
  • A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Bartleby)
  • A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Gutenberg)
  • A Vindication of the Rights of Woman with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects (1792) (Liberty Fund — PDF)

Woolman, John

• The Journal of John Woolman (Virginia)
• The Journal of John Woolman (Bartleby)

Wordsworth, William

• Collected and Selected Works:
  • Complete Poetical Works (1888 edition) (Bartleby)
  • Selected Poems (Toronto)
  • Selected Shorter Poems (Poetry Archives)
  • Selected Poems (ReadPrint)
  • Sonnets (Sonnet Central)
• Daffodils (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• Desideria (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• England, 1802:
  • England, 1802 i (Oxford Book of English Verse)
  • England, 1802 ii (Oxford Book of English Verse)
  • England, 1802 iii (Oxford Book of English Verse)
  • England, 1802 iv (Oxford Book of English Verse)
  • England, 1802 v (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• Evening on Calais Beach (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• Lucy:
  • Lucy i (Oxford Book of English Verse)
  • Lucy ii (Oxford Book of English Verse)
  • Lucy iii (Oxford Book of English Verse)
  • Lucy iv (Oxford Book of English Verse)
  • Lucy v (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• Lyrical Ballads (1798):
  • Lyrical Ballads: An Electronic Scholarly Edition (Romantic Circles) — An astounding edition of Lyrical Ballads in its many editions, with collations, page images, a bibliography, and much more. What Web scholarship should be. O si sic omnes!
  • Lyrical Ballads (Oregon)
  • Lyrical Ballads (first Bristol imprint; Virginia)
  • Preface to Lyrical Ballads (Toronto)
  • Lyrical Ballads Bicentenary Project (Bruce Graver and Ronald Tetreault) — Complete transcription with page images.
  • Lyrical Ballads Hypertext Project (Bruce Graver and Ronald Tetreault) — In-progress experimental edition.
  • Prose: The "Advertisement" (1798), "Preface" (1802), and "Appendix: By What Is Usually Called Poetic Diction" (1802) to Lyrical Ballads (Michael Gamer, Penn)
• Mutability (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• Ode to Duty (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• On the Extinction of the Venetian Republic, 1802 (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• Perfect Woman (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• The Prelude:
  • Prelude, Book 7 (Stuart Curran, Penn)
• The Rainbow (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• The Solitary Reaper (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• The Sonnet:
  • The Sonnet i (Oxford Book of English Verse)
  • The Sonnet ii (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• Sonnet on Seeing Miss Helen Maria Williams Weep at a Tale of Distress (Stuart Curran, Penn)
• Speak! (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• The Trosachs (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• Upon Westminster Bridge (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• Valedictory Sonnet to the River Duddon (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• The World (Oxford Book of English Verse)

Wycherley, William

• The Country Wife (Bibliomania)
• The Gentleman Dancing-Master

Wynne, Ellis (1671-1734)

• The Visions of the Sleeping Bard: Being Ellis Wynne's "Gweledigaetheu y Bardd Cwsc" (Gutenberg)

Wyss, Johann David

• The Swiss Family Robinson, Told in Words of One Syllable (Gutenberg) — Adaptation by Mary Godolphin.