Eighteenth-Century E-Texts -- C

Cadogan, William (1711-1797)

• An Essay upon Nursing and the Management of Children (1749) (neonatology.org)

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

• Life Is a Dream, tr. Edward Fitzgerand (1651)

Campbell, Thomas (1777-1844)

• Declaration and Address (1809) (UIUC)
• Ye Mariners of England (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• The Battle of the Baltic (Oxford Book of English Verse)

Cantillon, Richard (1697-1734)

• An Essay on Commerce in General -- Part 1 (1755) (McMaster)
• An Essay on Commerce in General -- Part 2 (1755) (McMaster)
• An Essay on Commerce in General -- Part 3 (1755) (McMaster)

Carey, Henry (1693?-1743)

• Sally in our Alley (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• A Drinking-Song (Oxford Book of English Verse)

Carlyle, Thomas

• The French Revolution (Gutenberg)

Carter, Elizabeth (1717-1806)

• Selected Poems (Stuart Curran, Penn)
• Translation of Epictetus's "Enchiridion" (1758) (Jim Fieser, Univ. of Tennessee at Martin)

Cartwright, William (1611-1643)

• To Chloe (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• Falsehood (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• On the Queen's Return from the Low Countries (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• On a Virtuous Young Gentlewoman that died suddenly (Oxford Book of English Verse)

Carver, Jonathan (1710-1780)

• Three Years Travels through the Interior Parts of North-America for More than Five Thousand Miles (1789) (canadiana.org) -- Page images.

Cary, Thomas (1751-1823)

• Abram's Plains: A Poem (1789) (canadiana.org) -- Page images.

Cassidy, James P.

• A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Dancing (1810) (Library of Congress)

Caylus, Anne Claude Philippe de Tubières, Comte de (1692-1765)

• Réflexions sur les historiens anciens en général, et sur Diodore de Sicil en particulier (1761)

Cazotte, Jacques (1719-1792)

• Le Diable amoureux (1772)

Chamfort, Sébastien-Roch-Nicolas de

• Mustapha et Zéangir (1824) (BNF) -- Requires frames.

Chappell, Edward (1792-1861)

• Narrative of a Voyage to Hudson's Bay in His Majesty's Ship Rosamond (1817) (canadiana.org) -- Page images.

Charlevoix, Pierre-François-Xavier de (1682-1761)

• Journal of a Voyage to North-America (1761) (canadiana.org) -- Page images:
  • Vol. 1
  • Vol. 2
• Letters to the Dutchess of Lesdiguieres Giving an Account of a Voyage to Canada (1763) (canadiana.org) -- Page images.

Chatterton, Thomas (1752-1770)

• An Excelente Balade of Charitie: As Wroten bie the Gode Prieste Thomas Rowley, 1464 (Toronto)
• Ælla, a Tragical Interlude (excerpt) (Toronto)
• Song from Ælla (Oxford Book of English Verse)

Chenier, Marie André (1762-1794)

• Poems (Delaware; in French)
• Jean Calas: tragédie en 5 actes (1793) (BNF) -- Requires frames. Adobe Acrobat format.
• Caius Gracchus: tragédie en trois actes: représentée pour la première fois à Paris, sur le théâtre de la République, le 9 février 1792, l'an I de la république française (1793) (BNF) -- Requires frames. Adobe Acrobat format.

Child, Sir Josiah (1630-1699)

• Observations concerning Trade and Interest of Money (1668) (McMaster)

Choderlos de Laclos, Pierre-Ambroise-François

Chudleigh, Lady Mary

• "The Ladies Defence (Stuart Curran, Penn)
• To the Ladies (Jack Lynch, Rutgers)

Cibber, Colley (1671-1757)

• Adaptation of Shakespeare's Richard III (1700) (Richard III Society)
• The Tragical History of Richard III (Columbia)
• An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, Volume I and Volume II (Virginia)

Clare, John (1793-1864)

• Selected poems (Penn)
• Sonnets (Sonnet Central)
• Selected poems (Toronto)
• I Hid my Love
• I Am
• Written in Northampton County Asylum (Oxford Book of English Verse)

Clarendon, Edward, Earl of

• A Survey of Mr Hobbes His Leviathan (McMaster)

Cleland, John (1709-1789)

• Fanny-Hill (1749) (OBI)
• Fanny Hill (1749) (CMU)

Cocke, Louisiana Barraud

• Diary and Notes of Louisiana Barraud Cocke (1819-1820) (Virginia)

Cockle, Mary

• Mary Cockle, Elegy on the Death of His Late Majesty George the Third (BWRP)

Coke, Roger

• A Discourse of Trade (1670) (McMaster)

Colden, Cadwallader (1688-1776)

• The History of the Five Indian Nations of Canada (1747) (canadiana.org) -- Page images.

Coleridge, Hartley (1796-1849)

• Wordsworth Unvisited

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834)

• The Coleridge Archive (Virginia)
• Lyrical Ballads (Oregon)
• Lyrical Ballads (Virginia)
• Sonnets (Sonnet Central)
• Selected Poems (Poetry Archives)
• The Crewe Manuscript of "Kubla Khan" (Michael Gamer, Penn)
• Reviews of The Mysteries of Udolpho, The Monk, Hubert de Sevrac, and The Italian (Penn)
• On Donne's Poetry (Toronto)
• Biographia Literaria, Vol. I (Toronto)
• Biographia Literaria, Chapter 14 (Penn)
• Coleridge: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• Kubla Khan (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• Love (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• Youth and Age (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• Time, Real and Imaginary (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• Work without Hope (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• Glycine's Song (Oxford Book of English Verse)

Collier, Mary (1690?-c. 1762)

• An Elegy upon Stephen Duck (1762) (Dan White, Penn)
• Some Remarks of the Author's Life (1762) (Dan White, Penn)
• The Woman's Labour (1739) (Dan White, Penn)

Collin d'Harleville, Jean-François

• Les artistes: pièce en quatre actes et en vers (1797) (BNF) -- Requires frames. Adobe Acrobat format.

Collins, William (1721-1759)

• Selected poems (Toronto)
• Ode on the Poetical Character (1746) (Toronto)
• Ode to Simplicity (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• How sleep the Brave (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• Ode to Evening (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• Fidele (Oxford Book of English Verse)

Condillac, Étienne Bonnot de

• Essai sur l'origine des connoissances humaines: ouvrage où l'on réduit à un seul principe tout ce qui concerne l'entendement humain (1746) (BNF) -- Requires frames.
• La logique, ou Les premiers développements de l'art de penser: ouvrage élémentaire (1780) (BNF) -- Requires frames. Adobe Acrobat format.
• Le commerce et le gouvernement considérés relativement l'un à l'autre: ouvrage élémentaire (1776) (BNF) -- Requires frames.
• Traité des sensations (1788) (BNF) -- Requires frames.

Condorcet, Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de (1743-1794)

• Esquisse d'un tableau historique des progrès de l'esprit humain (1793-94) (McMaster; in French)
• Progress of Human Mind (selections) (Modern History Sourcebook, Fordham)

Congreve, William (1670-1729)

• >The Double-Dealer (Gutenberg)
• The Old Bachelor (Gutenberg)
• The Way of the World (Gutenberg)
• Love for Love (Gutenberg)
• False though She be (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• A Hue and Cry after Fair Amoret (Oxford Book of English Verse)

Constant, Benjamin (1767-1830)

• Adolphe
• Adolphe
• Memoirs of Constant, tr. Elizabeth Gilbert Martin

Cook, James

• The Three Voyages of Captain James Cook around the World (1821) (canadiana.org) -- Page images:
  • Vol. 1
  • Vol. 2
  • Vol. 3
  • Vol. 4
  • Vol. 5
  • Vol. 6
  • Vol. 7
• James Cook and James King:
  • A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean (canadiana.org) -- Page images:
    • Vol. 1
    • Vol. 2
    • Vol. 3
    • Vol. 4

  Corneille, Pierre (1606-1684)

  • Cinna (1682)
  • Cinna (1682)
  • L'illusion comique (1636)
  • Le Cid (1682)
  • Polyeucte (1636), tr. Thomas Constable (BiblioBytes)

  Cotton, Charles (1630-1687)

  • To Coelia (Oxford Book of English Verse)

  Coughlan, Laurence

  • An Account of the Work of God in Newfoundland (1776)

  Cowley, Abraham (1618-1667)

  • On the Death of Mr. Crashaw (1651-1656) (Toronto)
  • Six Books of Plants (1689) (Virginia) Anacreontics 1 (Oxford Book of English Verse)
  • Anacreontics 2 (Oxford Book of English Verse)
  • Anacreontics 3 (Oxford Book of English Verse)
  • On the Death of Mr. William Hervey (Oxford Book of English Verse)
  • The Wish (Oxford Book of English Verse)

  Cowley, Hannah

  • The Runaway (1776) (UMB)

  Cowper, William (1731-1800)

  • Olney Hymns (1765-1773) (Geocities)
  • Selected Olney Hymns (Stuart Curran, Penn)
  • The Task (Book 1 -- The Sofa) (Stuart Curran, Penn)
  • Selected poems (Toronto)
  • The Snail (Virginia)
  • To Mary Unwin (Oxford Book of English Verse)
  • My Mary (Oxford Book of English Verse)
  • Translations from the French of Madame de la Mothe Guion (Wheaton)

  Crabbe, George (1754-1832)

  • Selected poems (Toronto)
  • Meeting (Oxford Book of English Verse)
  • Late Wisdom (Oxford Book of English Verse)
  • A Marriage Ring (Oxford Book of English Verse)

  Crashaw, Richard (1613?-1649)

  • Wishes to His Supposed Mistress (Oxford Book of English Verse)
  • The Weeper (Oxford Book of English Verse)
  • A Hymn to the Name and Honour of the Admirable Saint Teresa (Oxford Book of English Verse)
  • Upon the Book and Picture of the Seraphical Saint Teresa (Oxford Book of English Verse)
  • Verses from the Shepherds' Hymn (Oxford Book of English Verse)
  • Christ Crucified (Oxford Book of English Verse)
  • An Epitaph upon Husband and Wife (Oxford Book of English Verse)

  Crawford, Charles (b. 1752)

  • An Essay on the Propagation of the Gospel (1801) (canadiana.org) -- Page images.

  Crébillon, Claude-Prosper Jolyot de

  • La nuit et le moment ou Les matines de Cythère: dialogue (1779) (BNF) -- Requires frames.
  • Le Sopha: conte moral (BNF) -- Requires frames.

  Crébillon, Prosper Jolyot de

  • Atrée et Thyeste: tragédie (1818) (BNF) -- Requires frames.
  • Catilina: tragédie (1818) (BNF) -- Requires frames.
  • Idoménée: tragédie (1831) (BNF) -- Requires frames.
  • Oeuvres de Crébillon. Tome premier (1812) (BNF) -- Requires frames. Adobe Acrobat format.
  • Oeuvres de Crébillon. Tome second (1812) (BNF) -- Requires frames. Adobe Acrobat format.
  • Oeuvres de Crébillon. Tome troisième (1812) (BNF) -- Requires frames. Adobe Acrobat format.
  • Rhadamisthe et Zénobie: tragédie (1813) (BNF) -- Requires frames.
  • Sémiramis: tragédie (1813) (BNF) -- Requires frames.

  Crèvecoeur, Henry St.-John de

  • Letters From An American Farmer (Virginia)

  Cristall, Anne Batten

  • Poetical Sketches (1795) (Virginia)

  Culpeper, Nicholas

  • The Complete Herbal (Blbiomania)
  • The English Physitian (1652) (Yale Medical Library)

  Cunningham, Allan (1784-1842)

  • The Sun Rises Bright in France (Oxford Book of English Verse)
  • Hame, Hame, Hame (Oxford Book of English Verse)
  • The Spring of the Year (Oxford Book of English Verse)

  Cunninghame-Graham, Robert, of Gartmore (1735-1797)

  • If Doughty Deeds (Oxford Book of English Verse)

  Cutts, John, Lord Cutts (1661-1707)

  • Song (Oxford Book of English Verse)

  Cuvier, Georges Léopole Chrétien Frédéric Dagobert, Baron Cuvier (1769-1832)

  • Revolutionary Upheavals on the Surface of the Globe (Ian Johnston, Malaspina)
  • Discours sur les revolutions de la surface du globe (Ian Johnston, Malaspina)
  • English Reviews of Cuvier's Essay (Ian Johnston, Malaspina)
  • Edinburgh Review on Cuvier's Essay (Ian Johnston, Malaspina)