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Eighteenth-Century E-Texts — G

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

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Galiani, Ferdinando (1728-1787)

• Dialogues on the Grain Trade (Liberty Fund — PDF)

Gallini, Giovanni-Andrea (1728-1805)

• A Treatise on the Art of Dancing (1772) (Library of Congress)

Galloway, Joseph (1731-1803)

• The Claim of the American Loyalists (1788) (Liberty Fund — PDF)

Galt, John (1779-1839)

• The Life and Stories of Benjamin West (Case Western Reserve)

Gardner, Edmund (fl. 1770-1798)

• Sonnets (Sonnet Central)

Garrick, David (1717-1779)

• Florizel and Perdita (adaptation of Shakespeare's Winter's Tale; 1758) (UMB)

Gay, John (1685-1732)

• Collected and Selected Works:
  • Selected Poems (Toronto)
• The Beggar's Opera (1728):
  • The Beggar's Opera (Oregon)
  • The Beggar's Opera (Gutenberg)
  • The Beggar's Opera (Bibliomania)
• An Elegy on a Lap-Dog (Poetry Archives)
• Fable L: The Hare and Many Friends (Poetry Archives)
• Song (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• Sweet William's Farewell to Black-Ey'd Susan: A Ballad (Poetry Archives)

Gent, Thomas

• The Life of Thomas Gent, Printer of York, 1693-1778 (1832 edition of 1755 work)

Gervaise, Isaac

• The System or Theory of the Trade of the World (1720) (McMaster)

Gibbon, Edward (1737-1794)

• Decline and Fall:
  • The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 12 vols. (1776) (Liberty Fund — PDF)
  • History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776-1784) (CCEL)
  • Edward Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Patricia Craddock, Univ. of Florida) — An in-progress hypertext edition.
  • Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776-1784) (extracts)
• Essai sur l'étude de la littérature (1761)
• Memoirs of My Life and Writings (Gutenberg)

Gilbert, Benjamin (1711-1780)

• A Narrative of the Captivity and Sufferings of Benjamin Gilbert and His Family (1780) (canadiana.org) — Page images.

Glen, Governor

• The Role of the Indians in the Rivalry between France, Spain, and England (1761) (Netherlands)

Godwin, William (1756-1836)

• An Enquiry concerning Political Justice:
  • An Enquiry concerning Political Justice (1793) (Liberty Fund — PDF)
  • A Enquiry concerning Political Justice (McMaster)
  • An Enquiry concerning Political Justice (The Anarchist Archives)
• Fleetwood; or, The New Man of Feeling (Munseys)
• Imogen: A Pastoral Romance from the Ancient British (1784) (Anarchist Archives)
• Lives of the Necromancers (Gutenberg)
• Of History and Romance (1797) (Michael Gamer, Penn)
• St. Leon (Munseys)
• Thoughts on Man:
  • Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions and Discoveries (1831) (Anarchist Archives)
  • Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions and Discoveries (1831) (Gutenberg)

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832)

• Briefe aus der Schweiz (Gutenberg)
• Egmont:
  • Egmont (Bartleby) — English translation.
  • Egmont (Gutenberg) — English translation.
• Faust:
  • Faust Part I, tr. Anna Swanwick (Bartleby)
  • Faust Part I (Gutenberg) — In English.
  • Faust Part I (in German) (Gutenberg)
  • Faust, Part II (in German) (Gutenberg)
• Die Geschwister (Gutenberg)
• Goetz von Berlichingen mit der eisernen Hand: Ein Schauspiel (Gutenberg)
• Hermann und Dorothea (1805):
  • Hermann und Dorothea (Gutenberg) — In German.
  • Hermann and Dorothea (Gutenberg) — English translation.
  • Hermann and Dorothea (Bartleby)
• Iphigenie auf Tauris (Gutenberg) — In German.
• Italienische Reise (in German) (Gutenberg):
  • Teil 1
  • Teil 2
• Die Leiden des Jungen Werther:
  • The Sorrows of Young Werther (Gutenberg) (in English)
  • Sorrows of Werther (Bartleby)
  • Die Leiden des jungen Werther (in German) (Gutenberg):
    • Buch 1
    • Buch 2
• Novelle (Gutenberg) — In German.
• Poems, translated by Alfred Bowring (Gutenberg)
• Reineke Fuchs (In German) (Gutenberg)
• Unterhaltungen deutscher Ausgewanderten (Gutenberg)
• Die Wahlverwandtschaften (Gutenberg)
• West-öslicher Divan (Gutenberg)
• Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre:
  • Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre (in German) (Gutenberg):
    • Buch I
    • Buch II
    • Buch III
    • Buch IV
    • Buch V
    • Buch VI
    • Buch VII
    • Buch VIII
  • Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship (Bartleby)
• Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre (in German) (Gutenberg):
  • Buch 1
  • Buch 2
  • Buch 3

Goldoni, Carlo (1707-1793)

• Le avventure della villeggiatura (LiberLiber) (in Italian)
• Gli Innamorati
• La locandiera (LiberLiber) (in Italian)

Goldsmith, Oliver (1730-1774)

• Collected and Selected Works:
  • Complete Poetical Works (Gutenberg)
  • Selected Poems (Toronto)
• The Citizen of the World (Patricia Craddock, Florida) — Selections.
• A Comparison between Laughing and Sentimental Comedy (1773)
• The Deserted Village (1770):
  • The Deserted Village (1770) (Virginia)
  • The Deserted Village (1770) (Michael Gamer, Penn)
  • The Deserted Village (Stockton) — Text annotated by the students of Professor Tom Kinsella.
  • The Deserted Village (Poetry Archives)
• Oh Memory, Thou Fond Deceiver (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• Retaliation: A Poem (Poetry Archives)
• She Stoops to Conquer:
  • She Stoops to Conquer (Bartleby)
  • She Stoops to Conquer (Gutenberg)
  • She Stoops to Conquer (Munseys)
• The Vicar of Wakefield (1766):
  • The Vicar of Wakefield (1766) (Virginia)
  • The Vicar of Wakefield (Bibliomania)
  • The Vicar of Wakefield (Gutenberg)
  • The Vicar of Wakefield: A Tale (Munseys)
• When Lovely Woman Stoops to Folly (Oxford Book of English Verse)

Gondi, Jean François Paul de

• Memoirs of Jean Francois Paul de Gondi, Cardinal de Retz (Gutenberg)

Gordon, Thomas (d. 1750)

• Cato's Letters (1755) (Liberty Fund — PDF)
• Discourses on Tacitus I (1737) (Liberty Fund — PDF)
• Discourses upon Tacitus II (1737) (Liberty Fund — PDF)
• An Essay on Government (1747) (Liberty Fund — PDF)

Gore, Catherine

• King O'Neil (1835) (BWP1800, ed. John Cranceschina)

Gouges, Olympe de

• Le bonheur primitif de l'homme, ou Les rêveries patriotiques (1789) (BNF) — Requires frames. Adobe Acrobat format.
• Le couvent ou Les voeux forcés: drame en trois actes (1792) (BNF) — Requires frames. Adobe Acrobat format.
• L' esclavage des noirs ou L'heureux naufrage: drame en trois actes, en prose (1792) (BNF) — Requires frames. Adobe Acrobat format.
• Mirabeau aux Champs-Elisées: comédie en un acte et en prose (1791) (BNF) — Requires frames. Adobe Acrobat format.
• Molière chez Ninon, ou Le siècle des grands hommes: pièce épisodique, en prose et en cinq actes (1788) (BNF) — Requires frames. Adobe Acrobat format.
• Zamore et Mirza, ou L'heureux naufrage: drame indien, en trois actes, et en prose (1788) (BNF) — Requires frames. Adobe Acrobat format.

Grant, Anne (1755-1838)

• Eighteen Hundred and Thirteen: A Poem (BWRP)
• The Highlanders, and Other Poems (BWRP)
• Poems on Various Subjects (BWRP)

Gray, Mary Ann Browne (1812-1844)

• The Coronal; Original Poems, Sacred and Miscellaneous (BWRP)
• Mont Blanc and Other Poems (UC Davis)

Gray, Thomas (1716-1771)

• Collected and Selected Works:
  • The Thomas Gray Archive: An Interactive Hypermedia Repository (Alexander Huber) — An attractive and scholarly edition of the fourteen poems published in Gray's lifetime, with extensive and collaborative commentary. Also includes biography, a chronology, images, and a bibliography. First-rate: O si sic omnes!
  • Selected Poems (Toronto)
• "The Bard":
  • "The Bard: A Pindaric Ode" (1757) (Michael Gamer, Penn)
  • The Bard (Poetry Archives)
• The Curse upon Edward (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• An Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard:
  • Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (1751) (Toronto)
  • Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (Oxford Book of English Verse)
  • Elegy Written in a Country Church-Yard (Poetry Archives)
• The Fatal Sisters: An Ode (Poetry Archives)
• Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College (Poetry Archives)
• Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat:
  • Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat Drowned in a Tub of Gold-Fishes (Poetry Archives)
  • On a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• Ode on the Pleasure Arising from Vicissitude (Poetry Archives)
• Ode on the Spring (Poetry Archives)
• On the Death of Richard West (Poetry Archives)
• "The Progress of Poesy":
  • The Progress of Poesy: A Pindaric Ode (1757) (Toronto)
  • The Progress of Poesy (Oxford Book of English Verse)
  • The Progress of Poetry: A Pindaric Ode (Poetry Archives)

Gresset, Jean-Baptiste-Louis

• Ver-Vert (1736) (BNF) — Requires frames.

Greville, Fanny Greville

• Prayer for Indifference (Oxford Book of English Verse)

Grimm, Jacob

• Contes choisis des frères Grimm (BNF) — Requires frames. Adobe Acrobat format.

Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm

• Fairy Tales (Gutenberg)

Gronniosaw, James Albert Ukawsaw

• The Life of James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw (1774) (Virginia)

Grose, Francis, and Robert Cromie

• A Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue (1811) (Gutenberg)

Gutch, John Matthew

• Caraboo: A Narrative of a Singular Imposition (1817)

Guyon, Jeanne Marie Bouvier de La Motte (1648-1717)

• Autobiography (CCEL)

Gyles, John (1680-1755)

• Memoirs of Odd Adventures, Strange Deliverances, &c. in the Captivity of John Gyles (1736) (canadiana.org) — Page images.