Eighteenth-Century E-Texts -- L

Laclos, Pierre-Ambroise-François Choderlos de (1741-1803)

• Les liaisons dangereuses (1782)
• Les liaisons dangereuses. Suivi de Les exercices de dévotion de M.-H. Roch (1782) (BNF) -- Requires frames. Adobe Acrobat format.

La Fayette, Mme de (1634-1693)

• La princesse de Clèves (1678)
• Comtesse de Tende (1718)

La Harpe, Jean François de

• [Eloge de Racine] (BNF) -- Requires frames.

Lamarck, Jean-Baptiste, Chevalier de (1744-1829)

• Selection from Philosophial Zoology (1809) (Ian Johnston, Malaspina)

Lamb, Charles (1775-1834)

• Tales from Shakespeare (with illustrations by Arthur Rackham) (1807)
• Tales from Shakespeare (1807) (Gutenberg)
• The Adventures of Ulysses (1808)
• Sonnets (Sonnet Central)
• The Old Familiar Faces (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• Hester (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• On an Infant Dying as Soon as Born (Oxford Book of English Verse)

Lamb, Mary (1765-1847)

• A Child (Oxford Book of English Verse)

Lamb, Charles and Mary

• Tales from Shakespeare (with illustrations by Arthur Rackham) (1807)
• Tales from Shakespeare (1807) (Gutenberg)

La Mettrie, Julien Offray de

• Man a Machine (1748) (Wisconsin)

Lamothe-Langon, Baronne Etienne Leon

• Memoirs of the Comtesse du Barry (Gutenberg)

La Motte, Antoine Houdar de

• Discours sur la poésie (1754) (BNF) -- Requires frames.
• Discours sur la tragédie (1754) (BNF) -- Requires frames.
• Fables (1754) (BNF) -- Requires frames.
• Alcione (1771) (BNF) -- Requires frames. Adobe Acrobat format.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth (LEL)

• L.E.L.'s "Verses" and The Keepsake for 1829 (Romantic Circles) -- Hypertext edition by Frederick Mansel Reynolds, Terence Hoagwood, Kathryn Ledbetter, and Martin M. Jacobsen.
• The Golden Violet
• The Improvisatrice and Other Poems (selections)
• An Evening of Lucy Ashton's (1833)
• Frances Beaumont (1836)
• The Betrothed: A Tale of the Times of Maria Theresa
• Two Scenes in the Life of Anna Boleyn (1837)
• The Enchantress (1836)
• Experiments; or, The Lover From Ennui (1833)
• First Love; or Constancy in the Nineteenth Century (1833)
• A Friend In Need Is A Friend Indeed (1836)
• Giulietta: A Tale of the Fourteenth Century (1834)
• Grasmere Lake (1836)
• The Head (1834)
• The History of a Child (1834)
• The History of Mabel Dacre's First Lessons (1836)
• The Indian Island (1836)
• The Indian Orphan (1836)
• Isadore (1824)
• The Knife (1833)
• The Bride of Lindorf (1852)
• The Love Charm
• The Story of Hester Malpas (1833)
• The Criticism of Chateaubriand
• Edward Lytton Bulwer (1831)
• A Scene in the Life of Nourmahal (1837)
• An Old Lady of the Last Century
• An Old Woman's Story (1843)
• One Peep Was Enough: or, The Post-Office (1833)
• Mildred Pemberton
• Rebecca (1833)
• Sefton Church (1834)
• Short Fictional and Non-fictional Works
• The Talisman (1833)
• Theresa (1833)
• The Twin Sisters (1836)
• Ethel Churchill
• The Vow of the Peacock (1835)
• The Troubadour (selections)
• The Venetian Bracelet (1829)
• The Zenana (1834)

Landor, Walter Savage (1775-1864)

• Selected poems (Toronto)
• The Maid's Lament (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• Rose Aylmer (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• Ianthe (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• Twenty Years hence (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• Verse (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• Proud Word you never spoke (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• Resignation (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• Mother, I cannot mind my Wheel (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• Autumn (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• Remain! (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• Absence (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• Of Clementina (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• Ianthe's Question (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• On Catullus (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• Dirce (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• Alciphron and Leucippe (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• Years (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• Separation (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• Late Leaves (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• Finis (Oxford Book of English Verse)

Law, John

• Money and Trade Considered (1705) (McMaster)

Law, William

• A Demonstration of the Gross and Fundamental Errors (1737)
• The Spirit of Prayer (1749)
• The Spirit of Love
• An Humble, Earnest, and Affectionate Address to the Clergy (1761) (Wheaton)
• Of Justification by Faith and Works (1760) (Wheaton)
• A Collection of Letters on the Most Interesting and Important Subjects (1760) (Wheaton)
• An Appeal to All that Doubt or Disbelieve (1740) (Wheaton)
• The Grounds and Reasons of Christian Regeneration (1739) (Wheaton)
• The Way to Divine Knowledge (1752) (Wheaton)
• A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life (Maryland) -- Requires frames.

Lead, Jane (1624-1704)

• The Hevenly Cloud Now Breaking (1681)
• The Revelation of Revelations (1683)
• The Enochian Walks with God (1694)
• The Laws of Paradise (1695)
• The Wonders of God's Creation (1695)
• A Message to the Philadelphian Society (1696)
• A Second Message to the Philadelphian Society (1696)
• The Messenger of an Universal Peace (1698)
• The Tree of Faith (1696)
• The Ark of Faith (1696)
• A Fountain of Gardens: Volume I (1696)
• A Fountain of Gardens: Volume II (1697)
• A Revelation of the Everlasting Gospel Message (1697)
• The Ascent to the Mount of Vision (1699)
• The Signs of the Times (1699)
• The Wars of David and the Peaceable Reign of Solomon (1700)

Leapor, Mary (1722-1746)

• Poems upon Several Occasions (1748) (Laura Mandell, Miami Univ., Ohio)
• Crumble-Hall (Laura Mandell, Miami Univ., Ohio)

Lee, Sophia

• Almeyda; Queen of Granada (1796) -- Edited by Diego Saglia, Univ. of Parma.
• Almeyda; Queen of Granada (1796) (Stanford)

Le Grice, C. V. (1773-1858)

• Sonnets (Sonnet Central)

Leibniz, Gottfried (1646-1716)

• Drôle de pensée (1675)
• Monadology (Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
• Drôle de Pensée, touchant une nouvelle sorte de représentations (1675)
• Lettres et textes divers
• La monadologie
• Essai de théodicée -- Préface et abrégé

Lennox, Charlotte

• The Life of Harriot Stuart, Written by Herself (1750) (Virginia)

Leopardi, Conte Giacomo

• Canti (Italy)

Lesage, Alain-René

• Le bachelier de Salamanque, ou Les mémoires de D. Chérubin de La Ronda (1736) (BNF) -- Requires frames.
• Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane. Tome 1 (BNF) -- Requires frames. Adobe Acrobat format.
• Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane. Tome 2 (BNF) -- Requires frames. Adobe Acrobat format.

Lessing, Gottfried Ephraim

• The Education of the Human Race, tr. F. W. Robertson (1778) (BiblioBytes)
• Minna von Barnhelm; or, The Solder's Fortune (BiblioBytes)

Lewis, Matthew

• The Monk (Gutenberg)

Lickbarrow, Isabella

• Poetical Effusions (1814) (BWRP)

Lindsay, Lady Anne (1750-1825)

• Auld Robin Gray (Oxford Book of English Verse)

Lloyd, Charles (1775-1839)

• Sonnets (Sonnet Central)

Little, Janet (1759-1813)

• The Poetical Works of Janet Little, the Scotch Milkmaid (1792) (BWRP)

Lobo, Jerome

• A Voyage to Abyssinia (tr. Samuel Johnson) (Gutenberg)

Locke, John

• A Letter Concerning Toleration (1689) (UTM)
• An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (6th ed.; Columbia)
• Second Treatise of Government (1690) (Wiretap)
• Concerning Civil Government, Second Essay (1690) (Eris) -- Down -- Is there another version?
• Some Thoughts concerning Education (1693) (Netherlands)
• Some Considerations of the Lowering of Interest (1691) (McMaster)
• Further Considerations (McMaster)
• Short Observations on a Printed Paper (McMaster)
• "Locke's Theory of the State" by F. Pollock (McMaster)

Logan, John (1748-1788)

• To the Cuckoo (Oxford Book of English Verse)

Lovelace, Richard (1618-1658)

• To Lucasta, going to the Wars (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• To Lucasta, going beyond the Seas (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• Gratiana Dancing (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• To Amarantha, that she would dishevel her Hair (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• The Grasshopper (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• To Althea, from Prison (Oxford Book of English Verse)

Lurting, Thomas

• The Fighting Sailor Turn'd Peaceable Christian (1711)

Lyttelton, George, Lord Lyttelton (1709-1773)

• Tell me, my Heart, if this be Love (Oxford Book of English Verse)