Eighteenth-Century E-Texts -- P

Pagan, Isobel (1740-1821)

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

Paine, Thomas (1737-1809)

• Common Sense (1776) (Virginia)
• Common Sense (1776) (Bartleby)
• The American Crisis (Liberty Online)
• Common Sense (1776) (OBI)
• The Existence of God (1797)
• Examination of the Prophecies (1807)
• An Essay On Dream (1807)
• Origin of Free-Masonry (1818)
• Answer to Bishop Llandaff
• Agrarian Justice
• Dissertation on First Principles of Government
• The Rights of Man (Adelaide)

Paley, William

• Natural Theology (Baylor)

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.

Parnell, Thomas (1670-1718)

• Song (Oxford Book of English Verse)

Parny, Evariste

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

Parsons, Eliza

• The Castle of Wolfenbach, Volume I and Volume II (1793)

Peacock, Thomas Love (1785-1866)

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

Penington, Isaac

• The Light Within (Delphi)

Penn, William (1644-1718)

• Some Fruits of Solitude (Virginia)
• Advice to His Children (Delphi):
  • 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 (Delphi)
• More Fruits of Solitude (1682) (BiblioBytes)

Pepys, Samuel (1633-1701?)

• The Concise Pepys (from the 1825 edition) (Bibliomania)

Percy, Thomas (1729-1811)

• Selected poems (Toronto)

Petty, William (1623-1687)

• Treatise on Taxes and Contributions (1662) (McMaster)
• Quantulumcunque Concerning Money (1682) (McMaster)
• 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)

• Orinda to Lucasia Parting (Jack Lynch, Rutgers)
• Friendship's Mystery (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)

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.

Pocock, William Innes

• Five Views of the Island of St. Helena (1815)

Polwhele, Richard

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

Pompignan, Jean-Jacques le Franc de (1689-1784)

• Selected Odes (Delaware; in French)

Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)

• Essay on Criticism
• Essay on Man
• Moral Essay II (To a Lady) (1735) (PEAL)
• Rape of the Lock (Jack Lynch, Penn)
• The Rape of the Lock (Michael Gamer, Penn)
• A Key to the Lock (1715) (UMass)
• Selected poems (Toronto)
• Imitations of Horace (1737) (Toronto)
• The Dunciad: Book IV (1742) (Toronto)
• Epistles to Several Persons: Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot (1735) (Toronto)
• Preface to his Translation of Homer's Iliad (1715) (Toronto)
• Essay on Man (Poetry Archives)
• The Rape of the Lock (Poetry Archives)
• On a Certain Lady at Court (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• The Dying Christian to his Soul (Oxford Book of English Verse)

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 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.
• Le monde moral, ou Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire du coeur humain (1784) (BNF) -- Requires frames.

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)
• Disquistions relating to Matter and Spirit (1777) (page images at Penn)
• Joseph Priestley, Impregnating Water with Fixed Air (1772)

Prior, Matthew (1664-1721)

• The Question to Lisetta (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• To a Child of Quality, Five Years Old, 1704. The Author then Forty (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• Song (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• On My Birthday, July 21 (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)
• For my own Monument (Oxford Book of English Verse)

Pushkin, Alexander Sergeyevich (1799-1837)

• Selected Poems (Poetry Archives)