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Eighteenth-Century E-Texts — M

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Mably, Gabriel Bonnot de

• De la manière d'écrire l'histoire (1796)

Macaulay, Catherine

• Observations on the Reflections of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke, on the Revolution in France (McMaster) — Adobe Acrobat PDF file.

Macaulay, Thomas Babington

• History of England from the Accession of James II (Gutenberg):
  • Vol. 1
  • Vol. 2
  • Vol. 3
  • Vol. 4
  • Vol. 5
• Review of Croker's edition of Boswell's Life of Johnson (1831) (Jack Lynch, Rutgers)

MacCreery, John (1768-1832)

• A Letter to the Right Honourable William Pitt (1828)
• The Paper Nautilus (1828)
• The Press, Part I (1828) — Selections.
• To the Memory of Robert Emmett (1828)

Machiavelli, Niccolò (translations)

• The Art of War, trans. Henry Neville (Constitution.org)
• Discourses on Livy, tr. Henry Heville (Constitution.org)

Machiavel-Cazotte, Jacques

• Contes fantastiques (BNF) — Requires frames. Adobe Acrobat format.

Mackenzie, Henry

• Julia de Roubigné (Munseys)
• The Man of Feeling:
  • The Man of Feeling (Gutenberg)
  • The Man of Feeling (Munseys)
• The Man of the World (Munseys)

Maclay, William

• Journal (1789-1791) (U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania) (Library of Congress)

Macomb, Alexander

• Pontiac; or, The Siege of Detroit: A Drama (1835)

Macpherson, James (Ossian)

• Collected and Selected Works:
  • Selected Poems, translated into French by M. Baour-Lormian (BNF)
• A Dissertation concering the Antiquity, &c. of the Poems of Ossian the Son of Fingal (Jack Lynch, Rutgers) — Selections.
• Fragments of Ancient Poetry (Jeremy M. Downes, Auburn)
• Temora (Jeremy M. Downes, Auburn Univ.)

Madison, James

• The Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787
• The Papers of James Madison (Virginia)

Maistre, Joseph de (1753-1821)

• Considérations sur la France:
  • Considérations sur la France
  • Considérations sur la France
• Lettres à un gentilhomme russe sur l'Inquisition espagnole (1815)
• Lettres sur l'Inquisition
• Les Soirées de Saint-Pétersbourg (1821):
  • Les Soirées de Saint-Pétersbourg (1821)
  • Les Soirées de Saint-Pétersbourg

Maistre, Xavier de (1763-1852)

• Collected and Selected Works:
  • Oeuvres complètes du comte Xavier de Maistre (BNF) — Requires frames. Adobe Acrobat format.
• Voyage autour de ma chambre (1794):
  • Voyage autour de ma chambre (1794)
  • Voyage autour de ma chambre; suivi de L'expédition nocturne [autour de ma chambre]; et de Le lépreux de la cité d'Aoste (BNF) — Requires frames. Adobe Acrobat format.

Makin, Bathsua

• An Essay to Revive the Antient Education of Gentlewomen (1673)

Malebranche, Nicolas de (1638-1715)

• Meditations sur l'humilité et la pénitence

Malthus, Thomas (1766-1834)

• An Essay on the Principle of Population (1798):
  • An Essay on the Principle of Population (McMaster)
  • An Essay on the Principle of Population (requires frames)
• Grounds for an Opinion on Restricting Foreign Corn (1815) (McMaster)
• The Nature of Rent (1815) (McMaster)
• High Price of Provisions (1800) (McMaster)
• Observations on the Corn Laws (1814) (McMaster)

Man-Choong, Kim

• The Cloud of the Nine (1689)

Mandeville, Bernard

• The Fable of the Bees, 2 vols. (1732) (Liberty Fund — PDF)
• The Grumbling Hive (1705) (Jack Lynch, Rutgers)

Manley, Mary Delarivier

• The Adventures of Rivella (Munseys)
• The Lost Lover; or, The Jealous Husband, A Comedy (1696) (Emory)
• The Power of Love (Munseys)
• Queen Zarah (Munseys)

Manzoni, Alessandro (1785-1873)

• Il Cinque Maggio
• I Promessi Sposi

Marbot, Jean-Baptiste-Antoine-Marcelin, Baron de

• Memoirs of General the Baron de Marbot (Gutenberg)
• Memoirs of Baron de Marbot (Napoleonic Literature)

Maréchal, Sylvain

• Le triomphe de la République ou Le camp de Grand-Pré: divertissement lyrique en 1 acte: musique de Gossec (c. 1794) (BNF) — Requires frames. Adobe Acrobat format.

Marivaux, Pierre de (1688-1763)

• Les fausses confidences: comédie de M. de Marivaux, représentée par les comédiens italiens ordinaires du Roi (1738) (BNF) — Requires frames. Adobe Acrobat format.
• L'isle des esclaves: comédie en un acte (1725) (BNF) — Requires frames. Adobe Acrobat format.
• Le jeu de l'amour et du hasard
• Journaux et oeuvres diverses (BNF) — Requires frames.
• Le paysan parvenu (BNF) — Requires frames.
• La vie de Marianne ou Les aventures de madame la comtesse de *** (BNF) — Requires frames.

Marmontel, Jean-François

• Contes moraux:
  • Contes moraux. T. 1 (1829) (BNF) — Requires frames.
  • Contes moraux. T. 2 (1826) (BNF) — Requires frames.
  • Contes moraux. T. 3 (1826) (BNF) — Requires frames.
• Essai sur les romans (1819) (BNF) — Requires frames.
• Les Incas, ou La destruction de l'empire du Pérou (1777) (BNF) — Requires frames.

Marston, Benjamin

• Diary (Univ. of New Brunswick) — Searchable text and analysis of the diary, 1776-1787.

Marvell, Andrew (1621-1678)

• Collected and Selected Works:
  • Works (Luminarium)
  • Miscellaneous Poems (Virginia)
  • Selected Poems (Toronto)
• Bermudas (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• An Epitaph (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• A Garden (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• An Horatian Ode (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• The Picture of Little T. C. in a Prospect of Flowers (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• Thoughts in a Garden (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• To His Coy Mistress (Oxford Book of English Verse)

Mather, Cotton (1663-1728)

• The Greatest Concern in the World
• Petitions relating to the Trial of Rebecca Nurse for Witchcraft (1689)

Maxfield, Thomas

• A Vindication of the Rev. Mr. Maxfield's Conduct, in Not Continuing with the Rev. Mr. John Wesley

Maxwell, Caroline

• Feudal Tales, being a Collection of Romantic Narratives, and Other Poems (BWRP)

Maxwell, John

• Concerning the City, or Kingdom, of God in the Rational World, and the Defects in Heathen Deism (1672) (Liberty Fund — PDF)
• Concerning the Imperfectness of the Heathen Morality; from Both Which, the Usefulness of Revelation May Appear (1672) (Liberty Fund — PDF)
• A Treatise Concerning the Obligation, Promulgation, and Observance of the Law of Nature (1672) (Liberty Fund — PDF)

Melon, Jean-François (1675-1738)

• A Political Essay upon Commerce (Liberty Fund — PDF)

Mercier, Louis-Sébastien

• L'an deux mille quatre cent quarante (1774):
  • L'an deux mille quatre cent quarante: rêve s'il en fût jamais (1774) (BNF) — Requires frames.
  • L'an deux mille quatre cent quarante: rêve s'il en fût jamais. [Volume 1]. suivi de L'homme de fer: songe (1786) (BNF) — Requires frames. Adobe Acrobat format.
  • L'an deux mille quatre cent quarante: rêve s'il en fût jamais. [Volume 2]. suivi de L'homme de fer: songe (1786) (BNF) — Requires frames. Adobe Acrobat format.
  • L'an deux mille quatre cent quarante: rêve s'il en fût jamais. [Volume 3]. suivi de L'homme de fer: songe (1786) (BNF) — Requires frames. Adobe Acrobat format.
• Eloge de René Descartes (1765) (BNF) — Requires frames. Adobe Acrobat format.
• Néologie, ou Vocabulaire de mots nouveaux, à renouveler ou pris dans des acceptions nouvelles (1801) (BNF) — Requires frames. Adobe Acrobat format.
• Tableau de Paris:
  • Tableau de Paris. I-IV (1782) (BNF) — Requires frames.
  • Tableau de Paris. V-VII (1783) (BNF) — Requires frames.

Metastasio, Pietro

• Arie (LiberLiber)

Miller, Samuel

• The Guilt, Folly, and Sources of Suicide (1835)

Milton, John (1608-1674)

• Collected and Selected Works:
  • Complete Poems (Bartleby)
  • Selected Poems (Toronto)
  • Poetical Works (Gutenberg)
  • Poemata: Latin, Greek and Italian Poems (Gutenberg)
  • Poems (1645) (Dartmouth) — Requires frames.
  • Poems (1673) (Dartmouth) — Requires frames.
  • Poems upon Several Occasions (1695 edition, John Geraghty) — Page images.
• Areopagitica:
  • Areopagitica (Richard Bear, Oregon)
  • Areopagitica (Dartmouth) — Requires frames.
  • Areopagitica (Gutenberg)
  • Areopagitica (Bartleby)
• Colasterion:
  • Colasterion (iEMLS)
  • Colasterion (Dartmouth) — Anotated. Requires frames.
• Comus:
  • Comus (Richard Bear, Oregon)
  • Comus (eDocs)
  • From Comus i (Oxford Book of English Verse)
  • From Comus ii (Oxford Book of English Verse)
  • From Comus iii (Oxford Book of English Verse)
  • From Comus iv (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• A Defence of the People of England (Constitution.org)
• Divorce Tracts (IEMLS)
• The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce:
  • The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce (Dartmouth) — Annotated. Requires frames.
  • The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce (iEMLS)
• The Judgement of Martin Bucer (iEMLS)
• Of Education:
  • Of Education (Richard Bear, Oregon)
  • Of Education (Dartmouth) — Annotated. Requires frames.
  • Tractate on Education (Barlteby)
• Paradise Lost (1667):
  • Paradise Lost (1667) (Virginia)
  • Paradise Lost (1667) (Literature.org)
  • Paradise Lost (1667) (Richard Bear, Oregon)
  • Paradise Lost (ten-book version, 1667) (Virginia)
  • Paradise Lost (Dartmouth) — Annotated. Requires frames.
  • Paradise Lost (ReadPrint)
  • Paradise Lost, 1678 (John Geraghty) — Page images of the complete book.
  • Paradise Lost (1688 edition, John Geraghty) — Page images.
  • Paradise Lost, ed. Richard Bentley, Preface and Book I (1732)
• Paradise Regain'd (1674):
  • Paradise Regain'd (Dartmouth) — Requires frames.
  • Paradise Regain'd (Renascence Editions)
  • Paradise Regain'd (Literature.org)
  • Paradise Regain'd (1674) (Judy Boss, Gutenberg)
  • Paradise Regain'd (CCEL; reproduces Gutenberg text)
• The Readie & Easie Way to Establish a Free Commonwealth (1660) (Renascence Editions)
• The Reason of Church Government (Dartmouth) — Requires frames.
• Samson Agonistes (1671):
  • Samson Agonistes (1671) (Richard Bear, Oregon)
  • Samson Agonistes (Dartmouth) — Requires frames.
  • Samson Agonistes (1695 edition, John Geraghty) — Page images.
  • From Samson Agonistes i (Oxford Book of English Verse)
  • From Samson Agonistes ii (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• Shorter Poems:
  • L'Allegro:
    • L'Allegro (Oxford Book of English Verse)
    • L'Allegro (ReadPrint)
  • Arcades (Oxford Book of English Verse) — Selections.
  • At a Solemn Music:
    • At a Solemn Music (ReadPrint)
    • At a Solemn Musick (Oxford Book of English Verse)
  • An Epitaph on the Admirable Dramatic Poet W. Shakespeare (ReadPrint)
  • The Hymn (ReadPrint)
  • Light (Oxford Book of English Verse)
  • Lycidas:
    • Lycidas (ReadPrint)
    • Lycidas (Oxford Book of English Verse)
  • On His Blindness (Oxford Book of English Verse)
  • On His Deceased Wife (Oxford Book of English Verse)
  • Il Penseroso:
    • Il Penseroso (Oxford Book of English Verse)
    • Il Penseroso (ReadPrint)
  • To Mr. Lawrence (Oxford Book of English Verse)
  • To Cyriack Skinner (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates (Dartmouth) — Requires frames.
• Tetrachordon:
  • Tetrachordon (Dartmouth) — Requires frames.
  • Tetrachordon (iEMLS)
• A Treatise of Civil Power in Ecclesiastical Causes (Dartmouth) — Requires frames.

Mirabeau, Victor Riqueti

• L'Ami des hommes, ou Traité de la population (1756) (BNF) — Requires frames.

Mitford, Mary Russell (1787-1855)

• Sonnets (Sonnet Central)

Molière (1622-1673)

• Les Amants magnifiques:
  • Les Amants magnifiques (1670) — Well edited, but the host fills the site with terribly irritating and intrusive commericials.
  • The Magnificent Lovers (Gutenberg), trans. Charles Heron Wall
• L'Amour médecin (1665) — Well edited, but the host fills the site with terribly irritating and intrusive commericials.
• Amphitryon (1668):
  • Amphitryon — Well edited, but the host fills the site with terribly irritating and intrusive commericials.
  • Amphitryon (English) (Gutenberg)
• L'Avare (1668):
  • L'Avare (Virginia)
  • L'Avare
  • L'Avare (1668) — Well edited, but the host fills the site with terribly irritating and intrusive commericials.
  • The Miser (Bibliomania)
  • The Miser (Gutenberg), trans. Charles Heron Wall
• The Blunderer; or, The Counterplots (Gutenberg)
• Le Bourgeois gentilhomme (1670):
  • Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme (1670) — Well edited, but the host fills the site with terribly irritating and intrusive commericials.
  • The Middle Class Gentleman (Gutenberg)
• La Comtesse d'Escarbagnas (1671) — Well edited, but the host fills the site with terribly irritating and intrusive commericials.
• Le Dépit amoureux (1656) — Well edited, but the host fills the site with terribly irritating and intrusive commericials.
• Dom Garcie de Navarre (1661):
  • Dom Garcie de Navarre, ou Le Prince jaloux (1661) — Well edited, but the host fills the site with terribly irritating and intrusive commericials.
  • Don Garcia of Navarre, or, The Jealous Prince (Gutenberg)
• Dom Juan:
  • Dom Juan, ou le festin de pierre (Virginia)
  • Dom Juan, ou le festin de pierre
  • Dom Juan, ou le festin de pierre (1665) — Well edited, but the host fills the site with terribly irritating and intrusive commericials.
• L'École des femmes (1662):
  • L'Ecole des femmes (1662) (ClicNet)
  • L'École des femmes (1662) — Well edited, but the host fills the site with terribly irritating and intrusive commericials.
  • L'École des femmes (1662)
  • The School for Wives (Bibliomania)
  • La Critique de l'École des femmes (1663) — Well edited, but the host fills the site with terribly irritating and intrusive commericials.
• L'École des maris (1661):
  • L'École des maris (1661) — Well edited, but the host fills the site with terribly irritating and intrusive commericials.
  • The School for Husbands (Gutenberg)
• L'Étourdi
  • L'Étourdi, ou Le Contre-Temps (1653) — Well edited, but the host fills the site with terribly irritating and intrusive commericials.
  • L'Etourdi; ou, Les Contre-Temps (French) (Gutenberg)
  • The Bores (Gutenberg)
• Les Fâcheux (1661) — Well edited, but the host fills the site with terribly irritating and intrusive commericials.
• Les Femmes savantes:
  • Les Femmes savantes (1672) — Well edited, but the host fills the site with terribly irritating and intrusive commericials.
  • The Pretentious Young Ladies (Gutenberg)
• Les Fourberies de Scapin:
  • Les Fourberies de Scapin
  • Les Fourberies de Scapin (1671) — Well edited, but the host fills the site with terribly irritating and intrusive commericials.
• Georges Dandin (1668) — Well edited, but the host fills the site with terribly irritating and intrusive commericials.
• L'Impromptu de Versailles (1663) — Well edited, but the host fills the site with terribly irritating and intrusive commericials.
• La Jalousié du Barbouillé — Well edited, but the host fills the site with terribly irritating and intrusive commericials.
• The Love-Tiff
• Le Malade imaginaire:
  • Le Malade imaginaire (1673-1674) (ClicNet)
  • Le Malade imaginaire (1673) — Well edited, but the host fills the site with terribly irritating and intrusive commericials.
• Le Mariage forcé (1664) — Well edited, but the host fills the site with terribly irritating and intrusive commericials.
• Le Médecin malgré lui (1666):
  • Le Médecin malgré lui — Well edited, but the host fills the site with terribly irritating and intrusive commericials.
  • The Physician in Spite of Himself (Bibliomania)
• The Misanthrope (1666):
  • Le Misanthrope (1666) — Well edited, but the host fills the site with terribly irritating and intrusive commericials.
  • The Misanthrope (Bibliomania)
• Le Médecin volant — Well edited, but the host fills the site with terribly irritating and intrusive commericials.
• Mélicerte (1666) — Well edited, but the host fills the site with terribly irritating and intrusive commericials.
• Monsieur de Pouceaugnac:
  • Monsieur de Pouceaugnac (Gutenberg), trans. Charles Heron Wall
  • Monsieur de Pourceaugnac (1669) — Well edited, but the host fills the site with terribly irritating and intrusive commericials.
• Pastorale comique — Well edited, but the host fills the site with terribly irritating and intrusive commericials.
• Les Précieuses ridicules (1659) — Well edited, but the host fills the site with terribly irritating and intrusive commericials.
• La Princesse d'Élide (1664) — Well edited, but the host fills the site with terribly irritating and intrusive commericials.
• Psyché (1671) — Well edited, but the host fills the site with terribly irritating and intrusive commericials.
• Sganarelle (1660):
  • Sganarelle, ou Le Cocu imaginaire (1660) — Well edited, but the host fills the site with terribly irritating and intrusive commericials.
  • Sganarelle; or, The Self-Deceived Husband (Gutenberg)
• Le Sicilien, ou L'Amour peintre (1667) — Well edited, but the host fills the site with terribly irritating and intrusive commericials.
• Tartuffe:
  • Tartuffe, ou l'imposteur
  • Tartuffe, ou l'imposteur (Virginia)
  • Tartuffe (1664, 1667, 1669) — Well edited, but the host fills the site with terribly irritating and intrusive commericials.
  • Tartuffe, tr. Curtis Hidden Page (Gutenberg)
  • Tartuffe (Bartleby)
  • Tartuffe, or, The Impostor (Bibliomania)

Montagu, Elizabeth

• Introduction to An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Shakespear (1769) (Jack Lynch, Rutgers)

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley (1689-1762)

• Prose and Poetry (Oregon)
• Prose and Poetry (Virginia)

Montespan, Marquise de

• Memoirs of Madame la Marquise de Montespan, Written by Herself (Gutenberg)

Montesquieu, Charles Louis de Secondat (1689-1755)

• Collected and Selected Works:
  • The Complete Works of M. de Montesquieu, 4 vols. (1777) (Liberty Fund — PDF)
  • Oeuvres de M. de Montesquieu. [Tome 1], Eloge de Monsieur le président de Montesquieu, mis à la tête du 5e vol. de l'Encyclopédie (1767) (BNF) — Requires frames. Adobe Acrobat format.
  • Oeuvres de M. de Montesquieu. [Tome 2], De l'Esprit des loix (1767) (BNF) — Requires frames. Adobe Acrobat format.
  • Oeuvres de M. de Montesquieu. [Tome 3], Défense de l'Esprit des loix (1767) (BNF) — Requires frames. Adobe Acrobat format.
• Persian Letters:
  • Lettres persanes (BNF) — Requires frames.
  • Persian Letters (1721) — Annotated hypertext edition.
  • Persian Letters 13 (1721) (Modern History Sourcebook, Fordham)
• Spirit of the Laws:
  • The Spirit of Laws (1752)
  • Spirit of the Laws (1748) (Modern History Sourcebook, Fordham) — Selections.

Montolieu, Isabelle de (1751-1832)

• Caroline de Lichtfield (1815) (Ellen Moody) — In French.

Moore, John

• At the Mid Hour of Night (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• Irish Melodies
• The Irish Peasant to His Mistress (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• The Light of Other Days (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• The Young May Moon (Oxford Book of English Verse)

Moors, John

• The Heads of a Sermon Spoken at the Funeral of Mr. Thomas Newell in Newfoundland

More, Hannah

• Peter Pindar, A Story (Brycchan Carey)
• Sensibility (Michael Gamer, Penn)
• Slavery, a Poem (Brycchan Carey)

Lady Morgan, Sydney Owenson (1783?-1859)

• Lay of an Irish Harp:
  • Lay of an Irish Harp (1807) (BWRP)
  • The Lay of an Irish Harp; or, Metrical Fragments (1807)
  • The Irish Harp
• The Mohawks; a Satirical Poem with Notes (BWRP)
• O'Donnel: A National Tale (1814)
• Passages from my Autobiography (1859)
• Retrospection (1801)
• To Mrs. Lefanue
• The Wild Irish Girl: A National Tale (1806)
• By Others:
  • Review of Lady Morgan's Italy (Quarterly Review, 1821)
  • Review of Morgan's Life and Times of Salvator Rosa in the Edinburgh Review (1824)

Morier, James Justinian (1780?-1849)

• James Morier's Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan

Moritz, Karl Philipp

• Travels in England in 1782 (Gutenberg)

Morris, Gouverneur (1752-1816)

• The Diary and Letters of Gouverneur Morris, 2 vols. (Liberty Fund — PDF)

Morsztyn, Jan Andrzej

• Wiersze wybrane — Selected works in Polish.