Eighteenth-Century E-Texts -- B

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

• 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.
• Oeuvres complètes de Beaumarchais (BNF) -- Requires frames. Adobe Acrobat format.

Beccaria, Cesare (c. 1735-1794)

• A Discourse on Public Economy (McMaster)

Beckford, William

• Vathek (Gutenberg)

Behn, Aphra (1640-1689)

• Oroonoko; or, the Royal Slave (1688) (CMU)
• The Rover; or, The Banish'd Cavaliers (1677) (CMU)
• The City Heiress (1682) (Virginia)
• The Unfortunate Happy Lady: A True History (1698?) (Texas)
• Song (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• The Lady's Looking-Glass, to Dress Herself By (1697) (Emory)
• The Libertine (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• The Unfortunate Happy Lady: A True History (annotated; the commentary is not scholarly, but the text looks sound)
• A Thousand Martyrs I Have Made (Poetry Archives)
• Epitaph on the Tombstone of a Child (Poetry Archives)
• Love Arm'd (Poetry Archives)
• Song from Abdelazar (Poetry Archives)
• The Disappointment (Poetry Archives)
• The Dream (Poetry Archives)
• To the Fair Clarinda (Poetry Archives)
• Montague Summers, Memoir Of Mrs. Behn (Eris) -- Down; is there a replacement?

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.

Bentham, Jeremy (1748-1832)

• Offences Against One's Self (c. 1785) (Columbia)
• Defence of Usury (1787) (McMaster)
• Principles of Morals and Legislation, chapters 1-4 (1781) (UTM)
• Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation
• The Rationale of Punishment
• The Rationale of Reward
• Pannomial Fragments
• On the Liberty of the Press, and Public Discussion

Berkeley, George (1685-1753)

• The Querist (1735) (McMaster)
• The Analyst (Trinity College Dublin)
• A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge (CMU)

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

Beverley, Elizabeth

• A Poetical Olio (BWRP)

Blake, William (1757-1827)

• Complete Poetry and Prose (ed. Erdman)
• Blake eE Concordance (concordance to the on-line Erdman edition of Blake)
• The Book of Thel (1789) (The Blake Archive)
• Visions of the Daughters of Albion (The Blake Archive)
• All Religions Are One (Blake Archive)
• There Is No Natural Religion (Blake Archive)
• The Book of Thel (Blake Archive)
• The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (Blake Archive)
• America: A Prophecy (Blake Archive)
• Songs of Innocence and of Experience (Blake Archive) -- Copies B, C, F, L, U, and Z.
• Europe: a Prophecy (Blake Archive)
• 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)
• Selected Poems (Poetry Archives)
• Jerusalem: The Emanation of The Giant Albion (Joseph Viscomi & Students, UNC)
• Selected Poems (Gutenberg)
• Songs of Innocence & Experience (1789-1794) (UGA)
• Selected poems (Toronto)
• Visions of the Daughters of Albion (Michael Gamer, Penn)
• The First Book of Urizen (extraTEXTure)
• The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1791) (Richard Record)
• The Angel That Attended My Birth (OBI)
• The Chimney Sweeper (OBI)
• The Clod and the Pebble (OBI)
• The Crystal Cabinet (OBI)
• The Echoing Green (OBI)
• Epigram (OBI)
• Land of Dreams (OBI)
• London (OBI)
• Love's Secret (OBI)
• Mad Song (OBI)
• My Spectre (OBI)
• The New Jerusalem (OBI)
• Night (OBI)
• Piping Down the Valleys (OBI)
• The Poison Tree (OBI)
• The Question Answered (OBI)
• The Schoolboy (OBI)
• The Sick Rose (OBI)
• Silent Silent Night (OBI)
• Sleep Sleep Beauty (OBI)
• Song (OBI)
• To Autumn (OBI)
• To Spring (OBI)
• To Summer (OBI)
• The Tyger (OBI)
• The Voice of the Bard (OBI)
• Wild Flowers Song (OBI)
• To the Muses (Toronto)
• Mock On, Mock On, Voltaire, Rousseau (Kabbalah Institute of Galilee)
• Blake's Paradise Lost -- High-resolution scans of Blake's illuminations of Milton (1808). Thumbnails lead to large JPEGs.

Blamire, Susanna

• The Poetical Works of Miss Susanna Blamire (BWRP)

Bolingbroke, Henry St. John, Viscount

• The Idea of a Patriot King (McMaster)

Boswell, James

• 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)

Boyle, Robert

• The Sceptical Chymist (1661) (page images at Penn)

Bradbury, John

• Travels in the Interior of America (1819)

John G. C. Brainard (1796-1825)

• Poems (1841) (Michigan)

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)

Brome, Alexander (1620-1666)

• The Resolve (Oxford Book of English Verse)

Brooke, Frances (1724?-1789)

• The History of Lady Julia Mandeville (1765) (Virginia)
• The History of Lady Julia Mandeville (1763) (canadiana.org) -- Page images.
• History of Lady Julia Mandeville, vol. 2 (canadiana.org) -- Page images.

Brooke, Thomas H.

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

Broome, William (d. 1745)

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

Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)

• Wieland, or the Transformation (1798) (Virginia)
• Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist (1803-1805) (Virginia)
• Letter to John Hall, Philadelphia, November 21, 1806 (Virginia)
• Fragment of a Journal, AMS, dated 1801 March 9-10 (Virginia)

Brown, John, of Haddington (1722-1787)

• The Psalms of David in Metre (1775)

Browne, Thomas

• Christian Morals (1716 edition) (Chicago)
• Vulgar Errors (Pseudodoxia Epidemica) (1672) (Chicago)

Brydges, Egerton (1762-1837)

• Sonnets (Sonnet Central)

Bunyan, John (1628-1688)

• A Treatise of the Fear of God (1679) (mountzion.org)
• A Book for Boys and Girls (1701) (mountzion.org)
• Christ a Complete Saviour: or, The Intercession of Christ (mountzion.org)
• Christian Behaviour (mountzion.org)
• The Work of Jesus Christ as an Advocate (mountzion.org)
• A Treatise of the Fear of God (mountzion.org)
• The Doctrine of the Law and Grace Unfolded (mountzion.org)
• The Saints' Knowledge of Christ's Love: or, The Unsearchable Riches of Christ (mountzion.org)
• The Strait Gate: or, Great Difficulty of Going to Heaven (mountzion.org)
• A Discourse Upon the Pharisee and the Publican (mountzion.org)
• Seasonable Counsel: or, Advice to Sufferers (mountzion.org)
• The Resurrection of the Dead and Eternal Judgment (mountzion.org)
• Come and Welcome to Jesus Christ (1681) (mountzion.org)
• Pilgrim's Progress (1678) (Penn)
• Pilgrim's Progress (1678) (Wheaton)
• Pilgrim's Progress (Wiretap)
• Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners (1666) (Wheaton)
• The Holy War (1682) (Wheaton)
• The Holy War (1682) (Gutenberg)
• The Shepherd Boy Sings in the Valley of Humiliation (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• Edmund Venables, Life of John Bunyan (Gutenberg)
• The Life and Death of Mr. Badman (Gutenberg)
• A Book for Boys and Girls; or, Temporal Things Spiritualized (1701)
• Christ a Complete Saviour; or, The Intercession of Christ, and Who Are Privileged in It
• Christian Behaviour (1674)
• Come and Welcome to Jesus Christ (1681)
• A Discourse upon the Pharisee and the Publican
• The Doctrine of Law and Grace Unfolded
• I Will Pray with the Spirit and with the Understanding Also; or, A Discourse Touching Prayer (1663)
• The Resurrecetion of the Dead, and Eternal Judgment
• The Saints Knowledge of Christ's Love; or, The Unsearchable Riches of Christ (1692)
• Seasonable Counsel; or, Advice to Sufferers (1684)
• The Strait Gate; or, Great Difficulty of Going to Heaven
• A Treatise of the Fear of God (1679)
• The Work of Jesus Christ as an Advocate (1689)

Burder, George (1752-1832)

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

Bürger, Gottfried August (1747-1794)

• Lenore

Burke, Edmund (1729-1797)

• "On Taste" (1759) (Michael Gamer, Penn)
• A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful (1756) (BiblioBytes)
• A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origins of Our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful (1758; selections) (Penn)
• An Address to the King (1777) (Patricia Craddock, Florida)
• Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790) (Bjorn Christensson, Sweden)

Burney, Frances (1752-1840)

• Evelina (1778) (CMU)
• Dr. Johnson and Fanny Burney (Virginia)

Burns, Robert (1759-1796)

• Selected poems (Toronto)
• Poems and Songs (Gutenberg)
• Selected Poems (Poetry Archives)
• My Highland Lassie, O
• To A Kiss
• Epistle to J. Lapraik (excerpt, Toronto)
• Mary Morison (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• Jean (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• Auld Lang Syne (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• My Bonnie Mary (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• John Anderson, my Jo (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• The Banks o' Doon (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• Ae Fond Kiss (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• Bonnie Lesley (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• Highland 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)
• Lament for Culloden (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• The Farewell (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• Hark! the Mavis (Oxford Book of English Verse)

Burton, Harriet Emma

• The White-Rose Wreath (BWRP)

Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824)

• Don Juan (1819-1824) (Geocities)
• Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto 3 (1816) (Toronto)
• Manfred (1817) (SIUE)
• Selected poems (Toronto)
• Selected Poems (gate.cruzio.com)
• Byron, Selected Poems (Poetry Archives)
• The Blues: A Literary Eclogue (1821) (UMB)
• Fragment of a Novel
• When We Two parted (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• For Music (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• We'll Go No More A-Roving (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• She Walks in Beauty (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• The Isles of Greece (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• Selections from Hours of Idleness (1807) (UMB)
• Don Juan (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.
• Hebrew Melodies (1815) (Geocities)
• Fragment of a Novel (1816) (John W. Leys)
• Translation from Anacreon (John Leys)
• Farewell to the Muse (John Leys)
• Ossian's Address to the Sun in "Carthon" (John Leys)
• When We Two Parted (John Leys)
• And Wilt Thou Weep When I Am Low? (John Leys)
• Stanzas for Music [3] (John Leys)
• Darkness (John Leys)
• And Thou Art Dead, as Young and Fair (John Leys)
• On this Day I Complete My Thirty-Sixth Year (John Leys)
• The Destruction of Sennacherib (John Leys)
• So We'll Go No More A Roving (John Leys)
• Dear Doctor, I Have Read Your Play (John Leys)