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Eighteenth-Century E-Texts — B

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

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Baegert, Johann Jakob, S.J.

• Observations in Lower California (1771)

Bage, Robert

• Hermsprong; or, Man As He Is Not (Munseys)
• Man As He Is (Munseys)

Baillie, Lady Grisel (1665-1746)

• Werena my Heart's licht I wad dee (Oxford Book of English Verse)

Baillie, Joanna (1762-1851)

• Collected and Selected Works:
  • Poems by Joanna Baillie (eLook Literature) — Several short poems.
• A Collection of Poems, Chiefly Manuscript, and from Living Authors (BWRP)
• Fugitive Verses (BWRP)
• The Martyr: A Drama, in Three Acts (BWRP)
• Metrical Legends of Exalted Characters (BWRP)
• Night Scenes of Other Times: A Poem, in Three Parts (1790) (Michael Gamer, Penn)
• The Outlaw's Song (Oxford Book of English Verse)

Martha Ballard

• The Diary of Martha Ballard, 1785-1812 (DoHistory.org)

Banks, Sir Joseph (1743-1820)

• The Endeavour Journal, 1768-1771 (SETIS, Univ. of Sydney Library)

Bannerman, Anne

• The Prophecy of Merlin (Rochester)
• Tales of Superstition and Chivalry (UC Davis)

Barbauld, Anna Letitia (1743-1825)

• Collected and Selected Works:
  • The Works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld, with a Memoir by Lucy Aikin (1825) (Virginia)
• The Caterpillar (Poetry Archives)
• Dirge: Written November 1808 (Poetry Archives)
• Eighteen Hundred and Eleven (1812) (BWRP)
• Epistle to William Wilberforce:
  • Epistle to William Wilberforce, Esq. (Brycchan Carey)
  • Epistle to William Wilberforce, Esq. on the Rejection of the Bill for Abolishing the Slave Trade (Penn)
• Essay on Akenside's Poem on the Pleasures of Imagination (1804) (Laura Mandell, Miami Univ.)
• Hymns in Prose for Children (Penn)
• An Inventory of the Furniture in Dr. Priestley's Study (Poetry Archives)
• Life (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• On the Pleasures Derived from Objects of Terror; Sir Bertrand, a Fragment (1773) (Michael Gamer, Penn)
• Poems (1773):
  • Poems (1773) (Romantic Circles)
  • Poems (1773) (Penn)
• Prose Works (1825)
• The Rights of Women (Poetry Archives)
• A Thought on Death: November, 1814 (Poetry Archives)
• To a Little Invisible Being Who Is Expected Soon to Become Visible (Poetry Archives)
• To Mr. Barbauld, November 14, 1778 (Poetry Archives)
• To Mrs. P****, with Some Drawings of Birds and Insects (Poetry Archives)

Barber, Mary (1690-1757)

• To a Lady (Poetry Archives)
• Written for My Son ... at His First Putting on Breeches (Poetry Archives)
• Written for My Son ... upon His Master's First Bringing in a Rod (Poetry Archives)

Barbeyrac, Jean (1674-1744)

• Discourse on the Benefits Conferred by the Laws (1718) (Liberty Fund — PDF)
• Discourse on What Is Permitted by the Laws (1718) (Liberty Fund — PDF)
• The Judgment of an Anonymous Writer on the Original of This Abridgment (1718) (Liberty Fund — PDF)

Barbon, Nicholas

• A Discourse of Trade (1690) (McMaster)

Barclay, Robert (1648-1690)

• An Apology for the True Christian Divinity (CCEL)

Barker, Jane

• Bosvil and Galesia (Munseys)
• The Lining of the Patch-Work Screen (Munseys)
• A Patch-Work Screen (Munseys)

Barker, Thomas

• Barker's Delight; or, The Art of Angling (2d ed., 1659) (Renascence Editions)

Barlow, Joel (1754-1812)

• The Columbiad (1809) (Michigan) — Page images only.

Barthélemy, Jean-Jacques

• Voyage du jeune Anacharsis en Grèce dans le milieu du quartrième siècle avant l'ère vulgaire. T. 1. [1] (1788) (BNF) — Requires frames.
• Voyage du jeune Anacharsis en Grèce dans le milieu du quartrième siècle avant l'ère vulgaire. T. 1-T. 4 (1788) (BNF) — Requires frames.

Barton, Benjamin Smith (1766-1815)

• New Views on the Origin of the Tribes and Nations of America (1797) (canadiana.org) — Page images.
• New Views on the Origin of the Tribes and Nations of America (1798) (canadiana.org) — Page images.

Bartram, John (1699-1777) and Kalm, Pehr (1716-1799)

• Observations on the Inhabitants, Climate, Soil, Rivers, Productions, Animals, and Other Matters Worthy of Notice (1751) (canadiana.org) — Page images.
• Travels Through North & South Carolina, Georgia, East & West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws; Containing An Account of the Soil (UNC)

Bathurst, Elizabeth

• An Expostulatory Appeal to the Professors of Christianity (1680) (Emory)

Bayley, Cornwall (1784-1807)

• Canada: A Descriptive Poem (1806) (canadiana.org) — Page images.

Bayly, William (1737-1810) and Cook, James (1728-1779)

• The Original Astronomical Observations Made in the Course of a Voyage to the Northern Pacific Ocean (1782) (canadiana.org) — Page images.

Beattie, James (1735-1803)

• An Epitaph (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• The Minstrel; or, The Progress of Genius (1771-1774) (excerpts, Toronto)

Beaumarchais, Pierre-Augustin Caron de

• Collected and Selected Works:
  • Oeuvres complètes de Beaumarchais (BNF) — Requires frames. PDF files.
• La folle journée, ou Le mariage de Figaro: comédie en 5 actes, en prose: représentée pour la première fois par les comédiens français ordinaires du Roi, le mardi 27 avril 1784 (1789) (BNF) — Requires frames. Adobe Acrobat format.

Beccaria, Cesare (c. 1735-1794)

• Dei delitti e delle pene (1764):
  • Dei delitti e delle pene (1764) (LiberLiber) (in Italian)
  • Of Crimes and Punishments (1764; trans. 1778) (www.constitution.org)
• A Discourse on Public Economy (McMaster)

Beckford, William

• Dreams, Waking Thoughts (1783) (Dick Claésson)
• L'Esplendente (1779-80)
• The Unique (1823) (Biography of William Beckford)
• Vathek:
  • Vathek (Jack Lynch, Rutgers)
  • Vathek (Gutenberg)
  • The History of Caliph Vathek (1887 edition) — Includes intrusive advertisements.

Behn, Aphra (1640-1689)

• Fiction:
  • Oroonoko; or, The Royal Slave (1688):
    • Oroonoko; or, The Royal Slave (CMU)
    • Oroonoko (Adelaide)
    • Oroonoko: or, The Royal Slave (Renascence Editions)
    • Oroonoko; or, the Royal Slave (eServer)
    • Oroonoko or the Royal Slave (4literature.net) — Includes advertising.
    • Oroonoko (Geocities) — Includes advertising.
    • Oroonoko; or, The Royal Slave (Munseys.com)
    • Oroonoko (About.com)
    • Oroonoko (Miningco.com) — Includes pop-up advertisements.
  • The Unfortunate Happy Lady: A True History (1698?) (Texas) — Annotated; the commentary is not scholarly, but the text looks sound.
• Plays:
  • The Rover; or, The Banish'd Cavaliers (1677):
    • The Rover; or, The Banish'd Cavaliers (1677) (CMU)
  • The City Heiress (1682) (Virginia)
• Poems:
  • The Disappointment (Poetry Archives)
  • The Dream (Poetry Archives)
  • Epitaph on the Tombstone of a Child (Poetry Archives)
  • The Lady's Looking-Glass, to Dress Herself By (1697) (Emory)
  • The Libertine (Oxford Book of English Verse)
  • Love Arm'd (Poetry Archives)
  • Song (Oxford Book of English Verse)
  • Song from Abdelazar (Poetry Archives)
  • A Thousand Martyrs I Have Made (Poetry Archives)
  • To the Fair Clarinda (Poetry Archives)
• Montagu Summers, A Memoir of Mrs. Behn (Adelaide)

Bellasis, George Hutchins

• Views of Saint Helena (1815)

Benezet, Anthony (1713-1784)

• Some Observations on the Situation, Disposition, and Character of the Indian Natives of This Continent (1784) (canadiana.org) — Page images.

Bennett, Anna Maria (d. 1808)

• Agnes De-Courci: A Domestic Tale (1789) (Chawton House Library)

Bentham, Jeremy (1748-1832)

• Defence of Usury (1787) (McMaster)
• A Fragment on Government (1776) (McMaster)
• Offences Against One's Self (c. 1785) (Columbia)
• On the Liberty of the Press, and Public Discussion
• Pannomial Fragments
• Principles of Morals and Legislation (1781):
  • Principles of Morals and Legislation (1781)
  • Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation
• The Rationale of Punishment (Texas)
• The Rationale of Reward (Texas)

Bentley, Richard

• Paradise Lost, ed. Bentley, Preface and Book I (1732) (Jack Lynch, Rutgers)

Berkeley, George (1685-1753)

• The Analyst (Trinity College Dublin)
• Essay towards a New Theory of Vision (1709):
  • An Essay towards a New Theory of Vision (first ed. 1709; this, the fourth ed., published 1732) (Christopher D. Green, York Univ., Ontario)
  • An Essay towards a New Theory of Vision (Gutenberg)
• The Querist (1735) (McMaster)
• A Treatise concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge (1710):
  • A Treatise concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge (CMU)
  • A Treatise concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge (1710) (Renascence Editions)
• Three Dialogues:
  • Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous in Opposition to Sceptics and Atheists (Bartleby)
  • Three Dialogues (Gutenberg)

Bernardin de Saint-Pierre

• Paul et Virginie (BNF) — Requires frames.

Berquin, Arnaud

• L'amis des enfans, vol. 1 (1822) (BNF) — Requires frames.

Betham-Edwards, Matilda (1776-1852)

• Elegies and Other Small Poems (1797) (BWRP)
• Poetry of Matilda Betham-Edwards (Sappho.com)

Beverley, Elizabeth

• A Poetical Olio (BWRP)

Blackmore, Sir Richard

• King Arthur (Rochester)
• Prince Arthur (Rochester)

Blackstone, William

• Tucker's Blackstone (Constitution.org)

Blake, William (1757-1827)

• Collected and Selected Works:
  • Complete Poetry and Prose (ed. Erdman)
  • Blake eE Concordance (concordance to the on-line Erdman edition of Blake)
  • Selected Poems (Toronto)
  • Selected Poems (Poetry Archives)
  • Selected Poems (Gutenberg)
• All Religions Are One (Blake Archive)
• The Book of Thel (Blake Archive)
• America: A Prophecy (Blake Archive)
• Europe: a Prophecy (Blake Archive)
• The Marriage of Heaven and Hell:
  • The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (Blake Archive)
  • The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1791) (Richard Record)
• Songs of Innocence and Experience:
  • Songs of Innocence (Blake Archive)
  • Songs of Innocence and of Experience (Blake Archive) — Copies B, C, F, L, U, and Z.
  • Songs of Innocence & Experience (1789-1794) (UGA)
  • The Songs of Innocence (The Wm. Blake Page)
  • Songs of Experience (The Wm. Blake Page) — Includes illuminations.
• The First Book of Urizen (Blake Archive)
• The Song of Los (Blake Archive)
• The Book of Los (Blake Archive)
• The Book of Ahania (Blake Archive)
• Milton, A Poem (Blake Archive)
• On Homers Poetry [and] On Virgil (Blake Archive)
• The Ghost of Abel (Blake Archive)
• Laocoön (Blake Archive)
• For Children: The Gates of Paradise (Blake Archive)
• For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise (Blake Archive)
• Jerusalem: The Emanation of The Giant Albion (Joseph Viscomi & Students, UNC)
• Jerusalem the Emanation of the Giant Albion (Blake Archive)
• To the Muses (Toronto)
• Blake's Paradise Lost — High-resolution scans of Blake's illuminations of Milton (1808). Thumbnails lead to large JPEGs.
• There Is No Natural Religion (Blake Archive)
• Visions of the Daughters of Albion (The Blake Archive)

Blamire, Susanna

• The Poetical Works of Miss Susanna Blamire (BWRP)

Blewhitt, George

• An Enquiry Whether a General Practice of Virtue Tends to the Wealth or Poverty, Benefit or Disadvantage of a People (Liberty Fund — PDF)

Bogusl/awski, Wojciech

• Cud czyli Krakowiaki i Górale — In Polish.

Bolingbroke, Henry St. John, Viscount

• The Idea of a Patriot King (McMaster)
• Letters to Sir William Windham and Mr. Pope (Gutenberg)

Boswell, James

• Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides:
  • Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides (Adelaide)
  • Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides (Gutenberg)
• A Letter on Shakespeare's Jubilee at Stratford-upon-Avon (Jack Lynch, Rutgers)
• The Life of Samuel Johnson:
  • The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., abridged by Charles Grosvenor Osgood (Adelaide)
  • The Life of Johnson, abridged by Charles Grosvenor Osgood (1791) (Gutenberg)

Boulanger, Nicolas-Antoine

• Le christianisme dévoilée ou Examen des principes et des effets de la religion chrétienne (1766) (BNF) — Requires frames. Adobe Acrobat format.

Bowles, William Lisle (1762-1850)

• Fourteen Sonnets (1789) (Michael Gamer, Penn)
• Sonnets (Sonnet Central)
• Time and Grief (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• Lines Written on Fonthill Abbey

Bradbury, John

• Travels in the Interior of America (1819)

Brady, Nicholas, and Nahum Tate

• A New Version of the Psalms of David in Metre (1696)

Bray, Thomas

• A Memorial Representing the Present State of Religion on the Continent of North-America (1700)

Bray, William

• Extracts from the Diary of William Bray (Gutenberg)

Brodzinski, Kazimierz

• Wiesl/aw (1820) — In Polish.

Brome, Alexander (1620-1666)

• The Resolve (Oxford Book of English Verse)

Brontë, Patrick (1777-1861)

• The Harper of Erin (1813)
• Winter-Night Meditations (1811)

Brooke, Frances (1724?-1789)

• Emily Montague:
  • Emily Montague (Munseys)
  • The History of Emily Montague (page images at Canadiana.org):
    • Volume I
    • Volume II
    • Volume III
    • Volume IV
• The History of Lady Julia Mandeville (1765) (Virginia)

Brooke, Henry

• Gustavus Vasa (Michigan) — Page images of a 19th-c. edition.

Brooke, Thomas H.

• A History of the Island of St. Helena (1808)

Broome, William (d. 1745)

• Belinda's Recovery from Sickness (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• The Rosebud (Oxford Book of English Verse)

Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)

• Arthur Mervyn; or, Memoirs of the Year 1793
• Edgar Huntly: Or, Memoirs of a Sleep-walker
• Fragment of a Journal, AMS, dated 1801 March 9-10 (Virginia)
• Letter to John Hall, Philadelphia, November 21, 1806 (Virginia)
• Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist (1803-1805) (Virginia)
• Wieland, or the Transformation (1798) (Virginia)

Brown, John (1715-1766)

• An Estimate of the Manners and Principles of the Times (Liberty Fund — PDF)

Brown, John, of Haddington (1722-1787)

• The Psalms of David in Metre (1775)

Brown, Thomas

• Amusements Serious and Comical (Munseys)

Browne, Thomas

• Hydriotaphia (Urn-Burial) (Renascence Editions)
• Letter to a Friend
• Religio Medici (1643):
  • Religio Medici (Oregon)
  • Religio Medici (CCEL)

Brunton, Mary Balfour (1778-1818)

• Discipline: A Novel

Brydges, Egerton (1762-1837)

• Sonnets (Sonnet Central)

Bunyan, John (1628-1688)

• Collected and Selected Works:
  • Miscellaneous Pieces by John Bunyan (Gutenberg)
  • The Riches of Bunyan, Selected from His Works for the American Tract Society (Gutenberg)
• Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners (1666) (CCEL)
• The Holy War (1682):
  • The Holy War (CCEL)
  • The Holy War (Gutenberg)
• The Life and Death of Mr. Badman (Gutenberg)
• The Pharisee and the Publican (Gutenberg)
• Pilgrim's Progress (1678):
  • Pilgrim's Progress (1678) (CCEL)
  • Pilgrim's Progress (1678) (Bibliomania)
  • The Pilgrim's Progress (Bartleby.com)
  • The Pilgrim's Progress in Words of One Syllable (adapted by Mary Godolphin) (Gutenberg)
• The Shepherd Boy Sings in the Valley of Humiliation (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• Edmund Venables, Life of John Bunyan (Gutenberg)

Burder, George (1752-1832)

• The Welch Indians (1797) (canadiana.org) — Page images.

Bürger, Gottfried August (1747-1794)

• Lenore

Burke, Edmund (1729-1797)

• Collected and Selected Works:
  • Select Works of Edmund Burke, 4 vols. (1878 ed.) (Liberty Fund — PDF)
• An Address to the King (1777) (Patricia Craddock, Florida)
• Further Reflections on the French Revolution (1791-97) (Liberty Fund — PDF)
• A Letter to a Member of the National Assembly (1791)
• Letter to a Noble Lord:
  • Letter to a Noble Lord (1795, 1796)
  • Letter to a Noble Lord (Gutenberg)
• Letters on a Regicide Peace (1795) (Liberty Fund — PDF)
• Maxims and Reflections of Burke, ed. F. W. Rafferty
• Miscellaneous Writings (1874 ed.) (Liberty Fund — PDF)
• "On Taste":
  • On Taste (1759) (Michael Gamer, Penn)
  • On Taste (Bartleby)
• A Philosophical Inquiry (1758):
  • A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful (1758) (Bartleby)
  • A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origins of Our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful (1758; selections) (Michael Gamer, Penn)
• Reflections on the Revolution in France:
  • Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790) (Liberty Fund — PDF)
  • Reflections on the Revolution in France (Bartleby)
  • Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
• Speech on American Taxation (1774) (Liberty Fund — PDF)
• Speech on Conciliation with America (Gutenberg)
• Speech on Moving Resolutions for Conciliation with the Colonies (1775) (Liberty Fund — PDF)
• Thoughts and Details on Scarcity (1795) (Liberty Fund — PDF)
• Thoughts on French Affairs (1791)
• Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents:
  • Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents (1770) (Liberty Fund — PDF)
  • Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents; Two Speeches on America (1770-1775) (Liberty Fund — PDF)
  • Thoughts on Present Discontents, and Speeches (Gutenberg)
• A Vindication of Natural Society (1757) (Liberty Fund — PDF)

Burlamqui, J. J.

• The Principles of Natural and Politic Law (1748), tr. Nugent (1752) (Constitution.org)

Burney, Frances (1752-1840)

• Camilla:
  • Camilla; or, A Picture of Youth (1796) (Celebration of Women Writers)
  • Cecilia, or Memoirs of an Heiress (Munseys)
  • Cecilia (Gutenberg):
    • Vol. 1
    • Vol. 2
    • Vol. 3
• Evelina:
  • Evelina (1778) (Penn)
  • Love and Fashion (1799) (British Women Playwrights around 1800)
  • The Wanderer; or, Female Difficulties (Munseys)
  • The Diary and Letters of Madame d'Arblay (Gutenberg):
    • Vol. 1
    • Vol. 2
    • Vol. 3
  • Dr. Johnson and Fanny Burney (Virginia)

  Burns, Robert (1759-1796)

  • Collected and Selected Works:
    • Selected Poems (Toronto)
    • Poems and Songs (Gutenberg)
    • Selected Poems (Poetry Archives)
    • Poems and Songs (Bartleby)
  • Ae Fond Kiss (Oxford Book of English Verse)
  • Auld Lang Syne (Oxford Book of English Verse)
  • The Banks o' Doon (Oxford Book of English Verse)
  • Bonnie Lesley (Oxford Book of English Verse)
  • The Farewell (Oxford Book of English Verse)
  • Hark! the Mavis (Oxford Book of English Verse)
  • Highland Mary (Oxford Book of English Verse)
  • Jean (Oxford Book of English Verse)
  • John Anderson, my Jo (Oxford Book of English Verse)
  • Lament for Culloden (Oxford Book of English Verse)
  • Mary Morison (Oxford Book of English Verse)
  • My Bonnie Mary (Oxford Book of English Verse)
  • O Were My Love Yon Lilac Fair (Oxford Book of English Verse)
  • A Red, Red Rose (Oxford Book of English Verse)
  • The Slaves Lament (1792) (Brycchan Carey)

  Burton, Harriet Emma

  • The White-Rose Wreath (BWRP)

  Butler, Alban (1711-1773)

  • St. John, Apostle and Evangelist
  • St. Stephen, the First Martyr
  • St. Sylvester, Pope, Confessor

  Byron, Elizabeth

  • Drelincourt and Rodalvi; or, Memoirs of Two Noble Families: A Novel (1807) (Chawton House Library)

  Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824)

  • Collected and Selected Works:
    • Selected Poems (Toronto)
    • Selected Poems (Poetry Archives)
    • Selected Poems (ReadPrint)
  • The Blues: A Literary Eclogue (1821) (UMB)
  • Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto 3 (1816) (Toronto)
  • Don Juan (1819-1824) (B. Blair, Geocities) — Carefully prepared annotated edition. The usual Geocities annoyances are only minimally present.
  • English Bards and Scotch Reviewers (Bob Blair) — Carefully prepared annotated edition.
  • For Music (Oxford Book of English Verse)
  • Fragment of a Novel
  • Hebrew Melodies (1815) (Geocities)
  • Hours of Idleness (1807) (UMB) — Selections.
  • The Isles of Greece (Oxford Book of English Verse)
  • Manfred (1817):
    • Manfred (1817)
    • Manfred (Bartleby)
  • She Walks in Beauty (Oxford Book of English Verse)
  • We'll Go No More A-Roving (Oxford Book of English Verse)
  • When We Two Parted (Oxford Book of English Verse)