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THE RESTORATION AND THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY SAMUEL PEPYS The Diary [First Entries] [The Coronation of Charles II] [The Plague Year] [The Fire of London] Pepys's Diary and Its Time John Evelyn from Kalendarium Response Robert Louis Stevenson: from Samuel Pepys PERSPECTIVES: THE ROYAL SOCIETY AND THE NEW SCIENCE Thomas Sprat from The History of the Royal Society of London Philosophical Transactions from Philosophical Transactions Robert Hooke from Micrographia John Aubrey from Brief Lives MARGARET CAVENDISH, DUCHESS OF NEWCASTLE Poems and Fancies The Poetress's Hasty Resolution The Poetress's Petition An Apology for Writing So Much upon This Book The Hunting of the Hare from A True Relation of My Birth, Breeding, and Life Observations upon Experimental Philosophy Of Micrography, and of Magnifying and Multiplying Glasses The Description of a New Blazing World from To the Reader [Creating Worlds] [Empress, Duchess, Duke] Epilogue JOHN DRYDEN Absalom and Achitophel: A Poem Mac Flecknoe To the Memory of Mr. Oldham Alexander's Feast Fables Ancient and Modern from Preface The Secular Masque APHRA BEHN The Disappointment To Lysander, on Some Verses He Writ To Lysander at the Music-Meeting A Letter to Mr. Creech at Oxford To the Fair Clarinda, Who Made Love to Me, Imagined More than Woman Oroonoko Response Thomas Southerne: from Oroonoko: A Tragedy PERSPECTIVES: COTERIE WRITING Mary, Lady Chudleigh To the Ladies To Almystrea Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea The Introduction Friendship Between Ephelia and Ardelia A Nocturnal Reverie A Ballad to Mrs. Catherine Fleming in London from Malshanger Farm in Hampshire Mary Leapor The Headache. To Aurelia Mira To Octavia An Epistle to Artemisia. On Fame Advice to Sophronia The Epistle of Deborah Dough JOHN WILMOT, EART OF ROCHESTER Against Constancy The Disabled Debauchee Song (Love a woman? You're an ass!) The Imperfect Enjoyment Upon Nothing A Satyr Against Reason and Mankind WILLIAM WYCHERLEY The Country Wife MARY ASTELL from Some Reflections upon Marriage DANIEL DEFOE A True Relation of the Apparition of One Mrs. Veal A Journal of the Plague Year [At the Burial Pit] [Encounter with a Waterman] PERSPECTIVES: READING PAPERS News and Comment from Mercurius Publicus [Anniversary of the Regicide] from The London Gazette [The Fire of London] from The Daily Courant No. 1 [Editorial Policy] Daniel Defoe: from A Review of the State of the British Nation, Vol. 4, No. 21 [The New Union] Periodical Personae Richard Steele: from Tatler No. 1 [Introducing Mr. Bickerstaff] Joseph Addison: from Spectator No. 1 [Introducing Mr. Spectator] from Female Spectator, Vol. 1, No. 1 [The Author's Intent] Richard Steele: from Tatler No. 18 [The News Writers in Danger] Joseph Addison: from Tatler No. 155 [The Political Upholsterer] Joseph Addison: from Spectator No. 10 [The Spectator and Its Readers] Getting, Spending, Speculating Joseph Addison: Spectator No. 69 [Royal Exchange] Richard Steele: Spectator No. 11 [Inkle and Yarico] Daniel Defoe: from A Review of the State of the British Nation, Vol. 1, No. 43 [Weak Foundations] Advertisements from the Spectator JONATHAN SWIFT A Description of the Morning A Description of a City Shower Stella's Birthday, 1719 Stella's Birthday, 1727 The Lady's Dressing Room Response Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: The Reasons that induced Dr. S. to write a Poem called The Lady's Dressing Room Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift, D.S.P.D. Journal to Stella from Letter 10 Gulliver's Travels from Part 3. A Voyage to Laputa Part 4. A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms Gulliver's Travels and Its Time from Letters on Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift to Alexander Pope * Alexander Pope to Jonathan Swift * John Gay to Jonathan Swift * Jonathan Swift to Alexander Pope * The Prince of Lilliput to Stella A Modest Proposal A Modest Proposal and Its Time William Petty from Political Arithmetic ALEXANDER POPE An Essay on Criticism Windsor-Forest The Rape of the Lock The Iliad from Book 12 [Sarpedon's Speech] Eloisa to Abelard from An Essay on Man Epistle 1 To the Reader The Design Argument An Epistle from Mr. Pope, to Dr. Arbuthnot An Epistle To a Lady: Of the Characters of Women Epistle 2. To a Lady: Of the Characters of Women Response Mary Leapor: An Essay on Woman from The Dunciad from Book the Fourth [The Goddess Coming in Her Majesty] [The Geniuses of the Schools] [Young Gentlemen Returned from Travel] [The Minute Philosophers and the Consummation of All] LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU from The Turkish Embassy Letters To Lady-[On the Turkish Baths] To Lady Mar [On Turkish Dress] Letter to Lady Bute [On Her Granddaughter] Epistle from Mrs. Yonge to Her Husband The Lover: A Ballad JOHN GAY The Beggar's Opera WILLIAM HOGARTH A Rake's Progress PERSPECTIVES: MIND AND GOD Isaac Newton from Letter to Richard Bentley John Locke from An Essay Concerning Human Understanding Isaac Watts A Prospect of Heaven Makes Death Easy The Hurry of the Spirits, in a Fever and Nervous Disorders Against Idleness and Mischief Man Frail, and God Eternal Miracles Attending Israel's Journey Joseph Addison Spectator No. 465 George Berkeley from Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous David Hume from A Treatise of Human Nature from An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding Christopher Smart from Jubilate Agno William Cowper Light Shining out of Darkness from The Task The Cast-away JAMES THOMSON from Winter. A Poem [Autumn Evening and Night] [Winter Night] from The Seasons from Autumn Rule, Britannia The Seasons and Its Time Poems of Nightfall and Night Edward Young from The Complaint William Collins Ode to Evening * Ode Occasioned by the Death of Mr. Thomson William Cowper from The Task THOMAS GRAY Sonnet on the Death of Mr. Richard West Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College Ode on the Death of a Favorite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard SAMUEL JOHNSON The Vanity of Human Wishes A Short Song of Congratulation On the Death of Dr. Robert Levet The Rambler No. 4 [On Fiction] No. 5 [On Spring] No. 60 [On Biography] No. 170 [On Misella, a Prostitute] No. 171 [Misella Continues] No. 207 [Beginnings, Middles, and Ends] The Idler No. 31 [On Idleness] No. 32 [On Sleep] No. 84 [On Autobiography] No. 97 [On Travel Writing] A Dictionary of the English Language from Preface [Some Entries] from The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia Chapter 8. The History of Imlac Chapter 9. The History of Imlac Continued Chapter 10. Imlac's History Continued. A Dissertation upon Poetry Chapter 11. Imlac's Narrative Continued. A Hint on Pilgrimage Chapter 12. The Story of Imlac Continued from The Plays of William Shakespeare Preface [Just Representations of General Nature] [Faults; The Unities] [Selected Notes on Othello] Lives of the Poets from The Life of Milton from The Life of Pope Letters To Lord Chesterfield (7 February 1755) To Hester Thrale (19 June 1783) To Hester Thrale Piozzi (2 July 1784) To Hester Thrale Piozzi (8 July 1784) JAMES BOSWELL from London Journal [A Scot in London] [Louisa] [First Meeting with Johnson] An Account of My Last Interview with David Hume, Esq. from The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. [Introduction; Boswell's Method] [Conversations about Hume] [Dinner with Wilkes] [Conversations at Streatham and the Club] OLIVER GOLDSMITH The Deserted Village Responses George Crabbe: from The Village George Crabbe: from The Parish Register PERSPECTIVES: NOVEL GUISES Daniel Defoe from The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe Eliza Haywood Fantomina: Or, Love in a Maze Samuel Richardson from Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady from The History of Sir Charles Grandison, Baronet Henry Fielding from An Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews Laurence Sterne from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman Frances Burney from The Early Journals from Evelina; or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World Evelina to the Reverend Mr. Villars
