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Eighteenth-Century E-Texts — L

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Laclos, Pierre-Ambroise-François Choderlos de (1741-1803)

• Les liaisons dangereuses (1782)
• Les liaisons dangereuses. Suivi de Les exercices de dévotion de M.-H. Roch (1782) (BNF) — Requires frames. Adobe Acrobat format.

La Fayette, Mme de (1634-1693)

• Comtesse de Tende (1718)
• La Princesse de Clèves (1678)

La Fontaine, J. de

• The Tales and Novels of J. De La Fontaine (Gutenberg)

LaGrange, Joseph Louis

• Lectures on Elementary Mathematics (page images of 1898 edition at Cornell)

La Harpe, Jean François de

• [Eloge de Racine] (BNF) — Requires frames.

Lamarck, Jean-Baptiste, Chevalier de (1744-1829)

• Selection from Philosophial Zoology (1809) (Ian Johnston, Malaspina)

Lamb, Charles (1775-1834)

• The Adventures of Ulysses (1808):
  • The Adventures of Ulysses (1808)
  • The Adventures of Ulysses (ReadPrint)
• Essays:
  • Elia: Essays which Have Appeared under That Signature in the London Magazine (1823) (USL)
  • On the Genius and Character of Hogarth (1811)
• Poems:
  • Sonnets (Sonnet Central)
  • Angel Help (ReadPrint)
  • Composed at Midnight (ReadPrint)
  • Hester (Oxford Book of English Verse)
  • The Old Familiar Faces (Oxford Book of English Verse)
  • On an Infant Dying as Soon as Born (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• In the Album of a Clergyman's Lady (ReadPrint)
• Leisure (ReadPrint)
• On the Sight of Swans in Kensington Gardens (ReadPrint)
• Queen Oriana's Dream (ReadPrint)
• She Is Going (ReadPrint)
• To a River in Which a Child Was Drowned (ReadPrint)
• To a Young Friend (ReadPrint)
• Work (ReadPrint)

Lamb, Mary (1765-1847)

• A Child (Oxford Book of English Verse)

Lamb, Charles and Mary

• Tales from Shakespeare (1807):
  • Tales from Shakespeare (Gutenberg)
  • Tales from Shakespeare (alternate edition) (Gutenberg)
  • Tales from Shakespeare (1807; 1878 edition) (Bartleby)
  • Tales from Shakespeare (Palomar)
  • Tales from Shakespeare (Litrix)
  • Tales From Shakespeare (ReadPrint)

La Mettrie, Julien Offray de

• Man a Machine (1748) (Cosma Shalizi)

Lamothe-Langon, Baronne Etienne Leon

• Memoirs of the Comtesse du Barry (Gutenberg)

La Motte, Antoine Houdar de

• Alcione (1771) (BNF) — Requires frames. Adobe Acrobat format.
• Discours sur la poésie (1754) (BNF) — Requires frames.
• Discours sur la tragédie (1754) (BNF) — Requires frames.
• Fables (1754) (BNF) — Requires frames.

Lancaster, Joseph (1778-1838)

• The British System of Education (www.constitution.org)
• Improvements in Education, as It Respects the Industrious Classes of the Community (1803) (www.constitution.org)
• The Practical Parts of Lancaster's Improvements and Bell's Experiment, ed. David Salmon (www.constitution.org)

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth (LEL)

• The Betrothed: A Tale of the Times of Maria Theresa
• The Bride of Lindorf (1852)
• The Criticism of Chateaubriand
• Edward Lytton Bulwer (1831)
• The Enchantress (1836)
• An Evening of Lucy Ashton's (1833)
• Ethel Churchill
• Experiments; or, The Lover From Ennui (1833)
• First Love; or Constancy in the Nineteenth Century (1833)
• Frances Beaumont (1836)
• A Friend In Need Is A Friend Indeed (1836)
• Giulietta: A Tale of the Fourteenth Century (1834)
• The Golden Violet
• Grasmere Lake (1836)
• The Head (1834)
• The History of a Child (1834)
• The History of Mabel Dacre's First Lessons (1836)
• The Improvisatrice and Other Poems (selections)
• The Indian Island (1836)
• The Indian Orphan (1836)
• Isadore (1824)
• The Knife (1833)
• L.E.L.'s "Verses" and The Keepsake for 1829 (Romantic Circles) — Hypertext edition by Frederick Mansel Reynolds, Terence Hoagwood, Kathryn Ledbetter, and Martin M. Jacobsen.
• The Love Charm
• Mildred Pemberton
• An Old Lady of the Last Century
• An Old Woman's Story (1843)
• One Peep Was Enough: or, The Post-Office (1833)
• Rebecca (1833)
• A Scene in the Life of Nourmahal (1837)
• Sefton Church (1834)
• Short Fictional and Non-fictional Works
• The Story of Hester Malpas (1833)
• The Talisman (1833)
• Theresa (1833)
• The Troubadour (selections)
• The Twin Sisters (1836)
• Two Scenes in the Life of Anna Boleyn (1837)
• The Venetian Bracelet (1829)
• The Vow of the Peacock (1835)
• The Zenana (1834)

Landor, Walter Savage (1775-1864)

• Collected and Selected Works:
  • Selected Poems (Toronto)
• Absence (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• Alciphron and Leucippe (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• Autumn (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• Dirce (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• Finis (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• Ianthe (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• Ianthe's Question (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• Late Leaves (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• The Maid's Lament (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• Mother, I Cannot Mind My Wheel (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• Of Clementina (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• On Catullus (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• Proud Word You Never Spoke (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• Remain! (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• Resignation (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• Rose Aylmer (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• Separation (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• Twenty Years hence (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• Verse (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• Years (Oxford Book of English Verse)

Langhorne, John

• Solyman and Almena: An Oriental Tale (1762) (Augsburg) — Annotated transcription with complete page images.

Law, John

• Money and Trade Considered (1705) (McMaster)

Law, William

• An Appeal to All that Doubt or Disbelieve (1740) (CCEL)
• A Collection of Letters on the Most Interesting and Important Subjects (1760) (CCEL)
• A Demonstration of the Gross and Fundamental Errors (1737)
• The Grounds and Reasons of Christian Regeneration (1739) (CCEL)
• An Humble, Earnest, and Affectionate Address to the Clergy (1761) (CCEL)
• Of Justification by Faith and Works (1760) (CCEL)
• A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life (Maryland) — PDF file.
• The Spirit of Love
• The Spirit of Prayer (1749)
• The Way to Divine Knowledge (1752) (CCEL)

Lead, Jane (1624-1704)

• The Ark of Faith (1696)
• The Ascent to the Mount of Vision (1699)
• The Enochian Walks with God (1694)
• A Fountain of Gardens: Volume I (1696)
• A Fountain of Gardens: Volume II (1697)
• The Heavenly Cloud Now Breaking (1681)
• The Laws of Paradise (1695)
• A Message to the Philadelphian Society (1696)
• The Messenger of an Universal Peace (1698)
• The Revelation of Revelations (1683)
• A Revelation of the Everlasting Gospel Message (1697)
• A Second Message to the Philadelphian Society (1696)
• The Signs of the Times (1699)
• The Tree of Faith (1696)
• The Wars of David and the Peaceable Reign of Solomon (1700)
• The Wonders of God's Creation (1695)

Leapor, Mary (1722-1746)

• Crumble-Hall (Laura Mandell, Miami Univ., Ohio)
• Poems upon Several Occasions (1748) (Laura Mandell, Miami Univ., Ohio)

Lee, Harriet

• The Mysterious Marriage; or, the Heirship of Roselva (1798) (British Women Playwrights around 1800)

Lee, Richard Henry (1732-1794)

• Letters from the Federal Farmer (1787) (Liberty Fund — PDF)

Lee, Sophia

• Almeyda; Queen of Granada (1796) — Edited by Diego Saglia, Univ. of Parma.
• Almeyda; Queen of Granada (1796) (British Women Playwrights around 1800)

Lefanu, Alicia (1753-1817)

• Guiomar and Ottilia (1826)
• Sons of Erin; or, Modern Sentiment: A Comedy in Five Acts (1812)

Le Franc de Pompignan, Jean-Jacques (1709-1784)

• Didon, Tragédie (1734) (T. E. D. Braun)
• Discours de réception à l'Académie Française (1760) (T. E. D. Braun)
• Discours sur l'intérêt public (1737) (T. E. D. Braun)
• Mémoire présenté au roi (1760) (T. E. D. Braun)
• Observations sur le vingtième (1756) (T. E. D. Braun)
• Poésies profanes (T. E. D. Braun)
• Poésies religieuses (T. E. D. Braun)
• Poésies sacrées (Delaware)
• Le Triomphe de l'Harmonie (1730) (T. E. D. Braun)

Legendre, A. M.

• Elements of Geometry and Trigonometry (page images at Cornell)

Le Grice, C. V. (1773-1858)

• Sonnets (Sonnet Central)

Leibniz, Gottfried (1646-1716)

• Drôle de Pensée, touchant une nouvelle sorte de représentations (1675)
• Essai de théodicée — Préface et abrégé
• Lettres et textes divers
• La monadologie

Lenclos, Ninon de (1620-1705)

• Life, Letters and Epicurean Philosophy of Ninon de l'Enclos (PDF files)

Lennox, Charlotte

• The Female Quixote (Munseys)
• Harriot Stuart:
  • The Life of Harriot Stuart, Written by Herself (1750) (Virginia)
  • The Life of Harriot Stuart, Written by Herself (Munseys)

Leonard, Daniel (1740-1829)

• Massachusettensis (1775) (Liberty Fund — PDF)

Leopardi, Conte Giacomo

• Canti (Italy)

Leprince de Beaumont, Madame Jeanne-Marie (1711-1780)

• Beauty and the Beast: A Tale for the Entertainment of Juvenile Readers (Gutenberg)

Lesage, Alain-René

• Le bachelier de Salamanque, ou Les mémoires de D. Chérubin de La Ronda (1736) (BNF) — Requires frames.
• Gil Blas:
  • Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane. Tome 1 (BNF) — Requires frames. Adobe Acrobat format.
  • Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane. Tome 2 (BNF) — Requires frames. Adobe Acrobat format.
  • Gil Blas (translated into English by Tobias Smollett) (1700-1730)

Lessing, Gottfried Ephraim

• The Education of the Human Race, tr. F. W. Robertson (1778) (BiblioBytes)
• Minna von Barhelm:
  • Minna von Barhelm; or, The Soldier's Fortune (Gutenberg)
  • Minna von Barnhelm (Bartleby)
• Nathan the Wise: A Dramatic Poem in Five Acts (Gutenberg)

Lewis, Matthew

• Journal of a Residence among the Negroes in the West Indies (Virginia)
• The Monk:
  • The Monk (Jack Lynch, Rutgers)
  • The Monk (Gutenberg)

Lickbarrow, Isabella

• Poetical Effusions (1814) (BWRP)

Lindsay, Lady Anne (1750-1825)

• Auld Robin Gray (Oxford Book of English Verse)

Lloyd, Charles (1775-1839)

• Sonnets (Sonnet Central)

Little, Janet (1759-1813)

• The Poetical Works of Janet Little, the Scotch Milkmaid (1792) (BWRP)

Lobo, Jerome

• A Voyage to Abyssinia (tr. Samuel Johnson) (Gutenberg)

Locke, John

• An Essay concerning Humane Understanding (1690):
  • An Essay concerning Humane Understanding (ORST)
  • An Essay concerning Humane Understanding (McMaster)
  • An Essay concerning Human Understanding (6th ed.; Columbia)
• Further Considerations (McMaster)
• A Letter concerning Toleration (1689):
  • A Letter concerning Toleration
• Some Considerations of the Lowering of Interest (1691) (McMaster)
• Some Thoughts concerning Education (1693):
  • Some Thoughts concerning Education (Netherlands)
  • Some Thoughts concerning Education (Bartleby)
• Short Observations on a Printed Paper (McMaster)
• By Others:
  • "Locke's Theory of the State" by F. Pollock (McMaster)

Logan, John (1748-1788)

• To the Cuckoo (Oxford Book of English Verse)

Lovelace, Richard (1618-1658)

• Gratiana Dancing (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• The Grasshopper (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• To Althea, from Prison (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• To Amarantha, That She Would Dishevel Her Hair (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• To Lucasta, Going beyond the Seas (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• To Lucasta, Going to the Wars (Oxford Book of English Verse)

Lurting, Thomas

• The Fighting Sailor Turn'd Peaceable Christian (1711)

Lysaght, Edward (1763-1811)

• Addenda (1811)
• Fragment, to Miss Owenson (1811)
• Grattan and Freedom (1811)
• Lines Written on Leaving Fort-William, the Seat of William Crawford, Esq. (1811)
• The Maid of Merrion (1811)
• The Man, Who Led the Van of Irish Volunteers (1811)

Lyttelton, George, Lord Lyttelton (1709-1773)

• Tell me, my Heart, if this be Love (Oxford Book of English Verse)