Eighteenth-Century E-Texts -- W

Waller, Edmund

• On a Girdle (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• Go, lovely Rose (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• Old Age (Oxford Book of English Verse)

Walpole, Horace

• The Castle of Otranto -- Hypertext edition; requires frames.
• Historic Doubts on the Life and Reign of King Richard the Third (1768) (Richard III Society)

Walsh, William (1663-1708)

• Rivals (Oxford Book of English Verse)

Walton, Izaak

• The Complete Angler (Gutenberg)

Warburton, William

• Remarks on The Natural History of Religion (Hume Archives)

Warton, Joseph

• Ode to Fancy (Toronto)

Washington, George

• Rules of Civility and Decent Behaviour in Company and Conversation (Virginia)
• Farewell Address (Virginia)
• Washington's Farewell Address (UCSB)
• Constitutional Transmittal Letter (UCSB)
• Proclamation of Neutrality (UCSB)
• First Inaugural Address (1789) (FreedomShrine)
• Farewell Address (1796) (FreedomShrine)
• Address to Colonel Nicola (FreedomShrine)

Watling, Thomas (b. 1762)

• Letters from an Exile at Botany Bay (1794) (SETIS)

Watson, Thomas

• The Lord's Prayer (Wheaton)
• The Ten Commandments (Wheaton)
• A Divine Cordial (1663) (Wheaton)

Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)

• The Psalms and Hymns of Isaac Watts (Wheaton)
• The Day of Judgement (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• A Cradle Hymn (Oxford Book of English Verse)

Webbe, Charles (c. 1678)

• Against Indifference (Oxford Book of English Verse)

Wells, Thomas E. (1782-1833)

• Michael Howe: The Last and Worst of the Bush-Rangers of Van Dieman's Land (1834) (SETIS)

Wesley, John

• A Collection of Hymns, for the Use of the People Called Methodists (Pitt) (down; does anyone have a more recent URL?)
• Sermons on Several Occasions (Infonet)
• Sermons
• Thoughts Upon Slavery
• A Plain Account of Christian Perfection
• Journal (Tyndale Series)

Wheatley, Phyllis

• Poems on Various Subjects (Richard Bear, Oregon)
• Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral
• An Elegy to Dr. Samuel Cooper (Virginia)
• Selected Poems (Poetry Archives)

White, Gilbert

• The Natural History of Selborne (Gutenberg)

Whitefield, George

• A Letter to John Wesley

Wilcox, Asa

• Asa Willcox's Book of Figures (1793) (Library of Congress)

Williams, Helen Maria

• Selections from Poems (1786) (Michael Gamer, Penn)
• To Sensibility (Stuart Curran, Penn)
• The Bastille: A Vision (Adriana Craciun, Loyola Univ.)

Wilson, Thomas

• The Complete System of English Country Dancing (1815) (page images at Library of Congress)

Winstanley, Gerrard

• The True Levellers Standard Advanced: or, The State of Community Opened, and Presented to the Sons of Men

Wolfe, Charles (1791-1823)

• The Burial of Sir John Moore after Corunna (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• To Mary (Oxford Book of English Verse)

Wolley, Hannah

• The Gentlewoman's Companion: or, A Guide to the Female Sex (1675) (Emory)

Wollstonecraft, Mary

• Maria, or The Wrongs of Woman (Virginia)
• Maria, or the Wrongs of Woman (PG)
• A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (CMU)
• A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Bartleby)

Woolman, John

• Journal of John Woolman (Virginia)

Wordsworth, William

• Complete Poetical Works (1888 edition) (Bartleby)
• Lyrical Ballads (Oregon)
• Lyrical Ballads (first Bristol imprint; Virginia)
• Preface to Lyrical Ballads (1798)
• The Prelude: Book 1: Childhood and School-time (1805 text, Toronto)
• The Prelude: Book 2: School-time (Continued) (1805 text, Toronto)
• Sonnets (Sonnet Central)
• Scorn not the Sonnet (Toronto)
• Selected Shorter Poems (Poetry Archives)
• Prose: The "Advertisement" (1798), "Preface" (1802), and "Appendix: By what is usually called Poetic Diction" (1802) to Lyrical Ballads (Penn)
• Selected poems (Toronto)
• Extempore Effusion upon the Death of James Hogg
• Anecdote for Fathers (OBI)
• Idle Shepherd Boys (OBI)
• Kitten and Falling Leaves (OBI)
• Lament of Mary (OBI)
• Lines in Spring (OBI)
• Mother's Return (OBI)
• Ode on a May Morning (OBI)
• Ode: Intimations of Immortality (OBI)
• She Dwelt among Untrodden Ways (OBI)
• Sparrow's Nest (OBI)
• Stanzas (OBI)
• Stanzas 2 (OBI)
• Strange Fits of Passion (OBI)
• The Complaint (OBI)
• The Forsaken (OBI)
• The Green Linnet (OBI)
• The Russian Fugitive (OBI)
• The Sailor's Mother (OBI)
• The Seven Sisters (OBI)
• The Wishing Gate (OBI)
• The Wren's Nest (OBI)
• Three Years She Grew (OBI)
• To May (OBI)
• To a Butterfly (OBI)
• To a Butterfly 2 (OBI)
• To the Cuckoo (OBI)
• To the Daisy (OBI)
• To the Daisy2 (OBI)
• Prelude, Book 7 (Stuart Curran, Penn)
• "Sonnet on seeing Miss Helen Maria Williams Weep at a Tale of Distress" (Stuart Curran, Penn)
• Lucy i (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• Lucy ii (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• Lucy iii (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• Lucy iv (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• Lucy v (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• Upon Westminster Bridge (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• Evening on Calais Beach (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• On the Extinction of the Venetian Republic, 1802 (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• England, 1802 i (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• England, 1802 ii (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• England, 1802 iii (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• England, 1802 iv (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• England, 1802 v (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• The Solitary Reaper (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• Perfect Woman (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• Daffodils (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• Ode to Duty (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• The Rainbow (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• The Sonnet i (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• The Sonnet ii (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• The World (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• Ode, Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• Desideria (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• Valedictory Sonnet to the River Duddon (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• Mutability (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• The Trosachs (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• Speak! (Oxford Book of English Verse)