These pages are now woefully outdated; I haven't updated the links in yonks. Still I resolved not to take the pages down, since there may still be some useful material in here. Just be prepared to be frustrated.

Eighteenth-Century E-Texts — P

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

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Pagan, Isobel (1740-1821)

• Ca' the Yowes to the Knowes (Oxford Book of English Verse)

Pain, William (c. 1730-c. 1790)

• Pain's British Palladio; or, The Builder's General Assistant (1788) (page images at Wisconsin)
• The Practical House Carpenter; or, The Youth's Instructor (1792) (page images at Wisconsin)

Paine, Thomas (1737-1809)

• Collected and Selected Works:
  • The Writings of Thomas Paine, 4 vols. (Liberty Fund — PDF)
• The American Crisis (Liberty Online)
• Answer to Bishop Llandaff
• Common Sense (1776):
  • Common Sense (Virginia)
  • Common Sense (Bartleby)
• An Essay On Dream (1807)
• Examination of the Prophecies (1807)
• The Existence of God (1797)
• Origin of Free-Masonry (1818)

Paley, William

• Natural Theology:
  • Natural Theology (P. G. Caimi, The Book Page)
• The Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy (1785) (Liberty Fund — PDF)

Palissot de Montenoy, Charles

• Les philosophes: comédie en 3 actes, en vers, représentée pour la première fois par les Comédiens françois ordinaires du Roi, le 2 mai 1760 (1760) (BNF) — Requires frames.

Park, Mungo (1771-1806)

• Travels in the Interior of Africa (Gutenberg):
  • Volume 1
  • Volume 2

Parnell, Thomas (1670-1718)

• The Hermit (Toronto)
• A Hymn to Contentment (Toronto)
• A Night-Piece on Death (Toronto)
• Song (Oxford Book of English Verse)

Parny, Evariste

• Méfiez-vous des blancs (1787) (ClicNet)

Parsons, Eliza

• The Castle of Wolfenbach (Munseys)

Peacock, Thomas Love (1785-1866)

• Collected and Selected Works:
  • Shorter Poems
• Calidore
• Crotchet Castle:
  • Crotchet Castle
  • Crotchet Castle (Gutenberg)
  • Crotchet Castle (Informalmusic.com)
• The Four Ages of Poetry:
  • The Four Ages of Poetry (1820) (Toronto)
  • The Four Ages of Poetry
• The Grave of Love (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• Headlong Hall
• The Last Day of Windsor Forest
• Love and Age (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• Maid Marian:
  • Maid Marian (Gutenberg)
  • Maid Marian
• The Misfortunes of Elphin
• The Monks of St. Mark
• Nightmare Abbey:
  • Nightmare Abbey
• Poems from "Melincourt"
• Prospectus: Classical Education
• Recollections of Childhood
• The Round Table; or, King Arthur's Feast
• Satyrane
• Sir Hornbook; or, Child Launcelot's Expedition: A Grammatico-Allegorical Ballad
• The Three Doctors
• Three Men of Gotham (Oxford Book of English Verse)

Peake, Richard Brinsley

• Presumption; or, The Fate of Frankenstein (1823) (Romantic Circles, ed. Stephen C. Behrendt)

Penington, Isaac (1616-1679)

• The Works of the Long Mounful and Sorely Distressed Isaac Penington (1681)

Penn, William (1644-1718)

• Advice to His Children (Quaker Writings):
  • Part I
  • Part II
  • part 3
• A Key, Opening the Way to Every Capacity How to Distinguish the Religion Professed by the People Called Quakers (Tract Association)
• Some Fruits of Solitude:
  • Some Fruits of Solitude (Virginia)
  • Some Fruits of Solitude (Bartleby)

Pepys, Samuel (1633-1701?)

• The Concise Pepys (from the 1825 edition) (Bibliomania)
• The Diary of Samuel Pepys (Gutenberg) — Edition of Henry B. Wheatley from the 1890s.

Percy, Thomas (1729-1811)

• Selected Poems (Toronto)

Petty, William (1623-1687)

• Essays on Mankind and Political Arithmetic (Gutenberg)
• Quantulumcunque Concerning Money (1682) (McMaster)
• Treatise on Taxes and Contributions (1662) (McMaster)
• By Others:
  • A Brief Life by John Aubrey (McMaster)

Pfeil, Johann Gottlob Benjamin

• L'Homme sauvage: histoire, trad. par M. Mercier (1767) (BNF) — Requires frames. Adobe Acrobat format.

Philipps, Janetta

• Poems (1811) (UC Davis)

Philips, Katherine ("Orinda") (1631-1664)

• Friendship's Mystery (Jack Lynch, Rutgers)
• Orinda to Lucasia Parting (Jack Lynch, Rutgers)
• To One Persuading a Lady to Marriage (Oxford Book of English Verse)

Pilkington, Mary (1766-1839)

• Original Poems by Mrs. Pilkington (1811) (BWRP)

Piozzi, Hester Lynch Salusbury Thrale

• Anecdotes of Samuel Johnson (Gutenberg)

Pix, Mary

• The Beau Defeated; or, The Lucky Younger Brother (1700) — Acting script from a May 1999 production.

Pixérécourt, René Charles Guilbert de

• Coelina ou L'enfant du mystère: drame en 3 actes, en prose et à grand spectacle (1803) (BNF) — Requires frames.

Pluche, Noël-Antoine (1688-1761)

• Spectacle of Nature (Liberty Fund — PDF)

Plumptre, Anne

• The Natural Son (1798) (British Women Playwrights around 1800)

Polack, Elizabeth

• Esther, The Royal Jewess (BWP1800, ed. John Franceschina)

Polacy, Czy

• Moga sie wybic na niepodlegl/osc — In Polish.

Polidori, John

• The Vampyre (Gutenberg)

Polwhele, Richard

• Richard Polwhele, The Unsex'd Females (1798) (Virginia)

Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)

• Collected and Selected Works:
  • Selected Poems (Toronto)
• The Dunciad: Book IV (1742) (Toronto)
• Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• Epistle to Arbuthnot:
  • Epistle to Arbuthnot (Jack Lynch, Rutgers) — Annotated.
  • Epistles to Several Persons: Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot (1735) (Toronto)
• Essay on Criticism:
  • Essay on Criticism (Jack Lynch, Rutgers)
• An Essay on Man:
  • Essay on Man, Moral Essays and Satires (Gutenberg)
  • Essay on Man (Poetry Archives)
  • The Dying Christian to his Soul (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• Homer Translations:
  • Preface to his Translation of Homer's Iliad (1715) (Toronto)
  • The Iliad (Adelaide)
• Horace Imitations:
  • Imitations of Horace (1737) (Toronto)
  • Imitations of Horace, Satires 2.1 and 2.2 (Jack Lynch, Rutgers) — With annotations.
• Moral Essays:
  • Moral Essay II (To a Lady) (1735) (Jack Lynch, Rutgers)
• On a Certain Lady at Court (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• Rape of the Lock:
  • The Rape of the Lock (Jack Lynch, Rutgers)
  • The Rape of the Lock Home Page (UMass) — Several versions of the text, illustrations, translations, and background.
  • The Rape of the Lock (Poetry Archives)
  • A Key to the Lock (1715) (UMass)
• Windsor-Forest (Jack Lynch, Rutgers)

Potocki, Jan

• Rekopis znaleziony w Saragossie — In Polish.

Pownall, T.

• A Letter from Governor Pownall to Adam Smith (1776) (Liberty Fund — PDF)

Prévost, Abbé (1697-1763)

• Manon Lescaut (Histoire du chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut, tirée des Mémoires d'un Homme de qualité, tome VII) (1728)
• Le monde moral, ou Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire du coeur humain (1784) (BNF) — Requires frames.
• Le Philosophe anglois, ou Histoire de monsieur Cleveland. T. 1-3 (1777) (BNF) — Requires frames.
• Le Philosophe anglois, ou Histoire de monsieur Cleveland. T. 4 (1777) (BNF) — Requires frames.
• Le Philosophe anglois, ou Histoire de monsieur Cleveland. T. 5-6 (1777) (BNF) — Requires frames.

Price, Richard

• Collected and Selected Works:
  • Selected Political Works (Roland Price, Constitution.org)
• A Discourse on the Love of Our Country (1789) (Liberty Fund — PDF)

Price, Uvedale

• Essays on the Picturesque, chapters 4 and 5 (Penn)

Priestley, Joseph (1733-1804)

• The Discovery of Oxygen (from Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air, 1776) (Modern History Sourcebook, Fordham)
• Impregnating Water with Fixed Air (1772)

Prior, Matthew (1664-1721)

• For My Own Monument (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• The Lady Who Offers Her Looking-Glass to Venus (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• A Letter (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• On My Birthday, July 21 (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• The Question to Lisetta (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• Song (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• To a Child of Quality, Five Years Old, 1704. The Author Then Forty (Oxford Book of English Verse)

Pushkin, Alexander Sergeyevich (1799-1837)

• Selected Poems (Poetry Archives)