Eighteenth-Century E-Texts -- G

Gallini, Giovanni-Andrea (1728-1805)

• A Treatise on the Art of Dancing (1772) (Library of Congress)

Gardner, Edmund (fl. 1770-1798)

• Sonnets (Sonnet Central)

Garrick, David (1717-1779)

• Florizel and Perdita (adaptation of Shakespeare's Winter's Tale; 1758) (UMB)

Gay, John (1685-1732)

• The Beggar's Opera (1728) (Oregon)
• The Beggar's Opera (1728) (Wiretap)
• Selected poems (Toronto)
• Song (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• An Elegy on a Lap-Dog (Poetry Archives)
• Fable L: The Hare and Many Friends (Poetry Archives)
• Sweet William's Farewell to Black-Ey'd Susan: A Ballad (Poetry Archives)

Gent, Thomas

• The Life of Thomas Gent, Printer of York, 1693-1778 (1832 edition of 1755 work)

Gervaise, Isaac

• The System or Theory of the Trade of the World (1720) (McMaster)

Gibbon, Edward (1737-1794)

• History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776-1784) (Wheaton)
• Edward Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire -- an in-progress hypertext edition (Patricia Craddock, Univ. of Florida)
• Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776-1784) (extracts at Cal Tech)
• "Essai sur l'étude de la littérature" (1761)

Gilbert, Benjamin (1711-1780)

• A Narrative of the Captivity and Sufferings of Benjamin Gilbert and His Family (1780) (canadiana.org) -- Page images.

Gill, John (1697-1771)

• A Body of Doctrinal and Practical Divinity

Glen, Governor

• The Role of the Indians in the Rivalry between France, Spain, and England (1761) (Netherlands)

Godwin, William (1756-1836)

• Of History and Romance (1797) (Michael Gamer, Penn)
• Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions, and Discoveries (1831) (Gutenberg)
• Enquiry concerning Political Justice (McMaster)
• An Enquiry concerning Political Justice (1793) (Pitzer; incomplete)
• Imogen: A Pastoral Romance from the Ancient British (1784) (Anarchist Archives)

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832)

• Poems, translated by Alfred Bowring (Gutenberg)
• Egmont (1787), tr. Anna Swanwick (BiblioBytes)
• Faust (1808), tr. Anna Swanwick (BiblioBytes)
• Hermann and Dorothea (1805), tr. Anna Swanwick (BiblioBytes)
• Egmont (Gutenberg) -- English translation.
• Egmont (Gutenberg) -- English translation.
• Hermann and Dorothea (Gutenberg)
• Iphigenie auf Tauris (Gutenberg) -- In German.

Goldoni, Carlo (1707-1793)

• Gli Innamorati

Goldsmith, Oliver (1730-1774)

• The Deserted Village (1770) (Virginia)
• The Deserted Village (1770) (Michael Gamer, Penn)
• The Vicar of Wakefield (1766) (Virginia)
• She Stoops to Conquer (Gutenberg)
• The Traveller (Geocities)
• Selected poems (Toronto)
• The Citizen of the World (selections) (Patricia Craddock, Florida)
• When Lovely Woman Stoops to Folly (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• Oh Memory, Thou Fond Deceiver (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• Retaliation: A Poem (Poetry Archives)
• The Deserted Village (Poetry Archives)

Gouges, Olympe de

• Le couvent ou Les voeux forcés: drame en trois actes (1792) (BNF) -- Requires frames. Adobe Acrobat format.
• L' esclavage des noirs ou L'heureux naufrage: drame en trois actes, en prose (1792) (BNF) -- Requires frames. Adobe Acrobat format.
• Le bonheur primitif de l'homme, ou Les rêveries patriotiques (1789) (BNF) -- Requires frames. Adobe Acrobat format.
• Mirabeau aux Champs-Elisées: comédie en un acte et en prose (1791) (BNF) -- Requires frames. Adobe Acrobat format.
• Molière chez Ninon, ou Le siècle des grands hommes: pièce épisodique, en prose et en cinq actes (1788) (BNF) -- Requires frames. Adobe Acrobat format.
• Zamore et Mirza, ou L'heureux naufrage: drame indien, en trois actes, et en prose (1788) (BNF) -- Requires frames. Adobe Acrobat format.

Gray, Mary Ann Browne (1812-1844)

• Mont Blanc and Other Poems (UC Davis)
• The Coronal; Original Poems, Sacred and Miscellaneous (BWRP)

Gray, Thomas (1716-1771)

• An Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (1751) (Michigan)
• Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (1751) (Toronto)
• "The Bard: A Pindaric Ode" (1757) (Michael Gamer, Penn)
• The Progress of Poesy: A Pindaric Ode (1757) (Toronto)
• Selected poems (Toronto)
• Elegy written in a Country Churchyard (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• The Curse upon Edward (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• The Progress of Poesy (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• On a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• Elegy Written in a Country Church-Yard (Poetry Archives)
• Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College (Poetry Archives)
• Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat Drowned in a Tub of Gold-Fishes (Poetry Archives)
• Ode on the Pleasure Arising from Vicissitude (Poetry Archives)
• Ode on the Spring (Poetry Archives)
• On the Death of Richard West (Poetry Archives)
• The Bard (Poetry Archives)
• The Fatal Sisters: An Ode (Poetry Archives)
• The Progress of Poetry: A Pindaric Ode (Poetry Archives)

Gresset, Jean-Baptiste-Louis

• Ver-Vert (1736) (BNF) -- Requires frames.

Greville, Fanny Greville

• Prayer for Indifference (Oxford Book of English Verse)

Grimm, Jacob

• Contes choisis des frères Grimm (BNF) -- Requires frames. Adobe Acrobat format.

Gronniosaw, James Albert Ukawsaw

• The Life of James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw (1774) (Virginia)

Gutch, John Matthew

• Caraboo: A Narrative of a Singular Imposition (1817)

Guyon, Jeanne Marie Bouvier de La Motte (1648-1717)

• Autobiography (Wheaton)

Gyles, John (1680-1755)

• Memoirs of Odd Adventures, Strange Deliverances, &c. in the Captivity of John Gyles (1736) (canadiana.org) -- Page images.