Seventeenth Century -- in History and Literature

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Table of Contents

Europe in General

• The Best of the World's Classics edited by Henry Cabot Lodge
• volume 3
• volume 4
• Characters from the Histories and Memoirs of the 17th Century by David Nichol Smith
• A Political and Social History of Modern Europe 1500-1815, volume 1 by Carlton Hayes
• History of the Catholic Church by James MacCaffrey

Volume 1

Volume 2

• Great Events by Famous Historians
• volume 12, The Age of Louis XIV, 1661-1715
• Heroes of Modern Europe by Alice Birkhead
• Historical Tales, The Romance of Reality by Charles Morris, volume 6
• The Influence of Sea Power Upon History 1660-1783 by Alfred Thayer Mahan
• Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean: the Grand Period of Moslem Corsairs by E. Hamilton Currey

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Asia

• An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylong by Robet Knox, 1681

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American Colonies

• Christopher Columbus by Filson Young
• Christopher Columbus by Mildred Stapley
• The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus by Washington Irving
• volume 2
• A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia by Thomas Hariot
• The Mayflower Compact 1620 (short)
• Fundamental Orders of 1639 (short)
• The Whole History of Grandfather's Chair or True Stories form New England History 1620-1808 by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• The Mayflower and Her Log, July 15, 1620 - May 6, 1621, Chiefly from Original Sources, by Azel Ames
• The Development of Religious Liberty in Connecticut by Louise Greene
• Dulcibel, a Tale of Old Salem by henry Peterson (historical novel)
• England in America 1580-1632 by Lyon Tyler
• Sabbath in Puritan New England by Alice Earle
• History of Louisiana by Le Page de Pratz (1695-1775)
• Narrative of New Netherland ed. by J.F. Jameson
• An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia by Alexander Hewatt
• Volume 1
• Volume 2
• Original Narratives of Early American History
• Peter Stuyvestant by John Abbott
• Pioneers of France in the New World by Francis Parkman
• Pioneers of the Old South by Mary Johnston
• First Thanksgiving Proclamation 1676 (short)
• A Half-Century of Conflict, volume 2, by Francis Parkman
• The Jesuits in North America in the 17th Century by Francis Parkman
• The Women Who Came in the Mayflower by Annie Russell Marble
• The Fighting Governor: a Chronicle of Frontenac by Charles W. Colby
• Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson
• The Settlers, a Tale of Virginia by W.H.G. Kingston (historical novel)

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Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672)

• Anne Bradstreet and Her Time by Helen Campbell

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Ebenezer Cook (c. 1661- c. 1711)

• The Sotweed Factor (cf. the novel The Sotweed Factor by John Barth)

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Canada

• Conversion des Sauvages qui ont este Baptises en la Nouvelle France Cette Annee 1610
• Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV by Francis Parkman
• La Defaite des Sauvages Armouchiquois, 1607
• A French-Onondaga Dictionary by John Shea
• The Great Intendant: A Chronicle of Jean Talon in Canada 1665-1672 by Thomas Chapais
• The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century by Francis Parkman
• Pioneers of France in the New World by Francis Parkman
• Voyages of Champlain by Samuel de Champlain
• Volume 1
• Volume 2
• Volume 3

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Britain

History

• An Apoplogie for the Royal Party (1659) and A Panegyric to Charles the Second (1661) by John Evelyn
• At the Sign of the Barber's Pole: Studies in Hirsute History by William Andrews
• The Black Tor, a Tale of the Reign of James I by George Manville Fenn (historical novel)
• The Buccaneers in the West Indis int he 17th Century by C.H. Haring
• The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened edited by Anne MacDonell
• A Counter-Blast to Tobacco
• Cromwell (play) by Alfred Richards
• The Discovery of Witches by Matthew Hopkins, witch-finder, 1647
• England in America 1580-1632 by Lyon Tyler
• Flag and Fleet, How the British Navy Won the Freedom of the Seas by William Wood
• His Majesties' Declaration Defended, by John Dryden, 1681
• The History of England from the Accession of James II by Thomas Babbington, Lord Macaulay
• Volume 1
• The Gold that Glitters: the Mistakes of Jeremy Lavender by Emily Sarah Holt (historical novel)
• History of King Charles II of England by Jacob Abbott
• The History of England by A.F. Pollard
• The History of England, volume 1, Invasion of Caesar to James II, by David Hume
• History of England, volume 2, William and Mary to George II, by Tobias Smollett
• History of James II by Charles James Fox
• The History of Sir Richard Whittington by T.H.
• The Tryal of William Penn and William Mead (1670)
• Life of the Edward Earl of Clarendon [17th century] volume 2 by Henry Craik
• Life of James Renwick by Thomas Houston
• The Military Memoris of Captain George Carleton from the Dutch War 1672 to the Conclusion of the Peace at Utrecht 1713
• Orange and Green, a Tale of Boyne and Limerick, historical novel by G.A. Henty (historical novel)
• The Phantom Ship by Captain Marryat (historical novel)
• Proposals for Building in Every County a Working-Alms-House, 1677 by Richard Haines
• An Outline of the Relations Between England and Scotland 500-1707
• The School of Recreation by Robert Howlett, 1696
• A Short History of English Printing 1476-1898 by Henry Plomber
• A Short View of the Frauds and Abuses Committed by Apothecaries by Christopher Merrett, 1670
• Sir Walter Raleigh and His Time by Charles Kingsley
• Sketches of the Covenanters by J.C. McFeeters
• Spadacrene Anglica or the English Spa Fountain by Edmund Deane
• The Touchstone of Fortune: Memoirs of Baron Clyde by Charles Major
• A True Hero, a Story o fht eDays of William Penn by W.H.G. Kingston (historical novel)
• William Lilly's History of His Life and Times 1602-1681

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Science

• Acetaria: a Discourse of Sallets by John Evelyn, 1699
• The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended by Sir Isaac Newton
• Discovery of a World in the Moone by John Wilkins, 1638
• Experiments and Considerations Touching Colors by Robert Boyle, 1664
• A Briefe Introduction to Geography by William Pemble, 1630
• A Book of Fruits and Flowers, 1653
• Micrographia or Some Physiological Descriptios of Minute Bodies by R. Hooke

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Collections and Criticism

• The Age of Shakespeare by Algernon Swinburne
• The Art of Letters by Robert Lynd
• Character Writings of the Seventeenth Century, edited by Henry Morley
• De Carmine Pastorali by Rene Rapin, 1684
• England's Antiphon (British religious poetry) (1868) by George MacDonald
• An English Garner: Critical Essays and Literary Fragments (1903)
• Essays on the Stage by Thomas D'Urfey, 1698
• Lives of the Most Famous English Poets by William Winstanley, 1687
• London and the Kingdom by Reginald Sharpe
• Of the Orthographie and Congruitie of the Britain Tongue by Alexander Hume
• Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama by Walter Greg
• A Philosophicall Essay for the Reunion of the Languages, 1675 by Pierre Besnier
• Prefaces to Fiction
• Rhetoric and Poetry in the Renaissance by Donald Clark (1922)
• Some Account of the Life of William Shakespear by Nicholas Rowe, 1709
• Collection of Old English Plays edited by A.H. Bullen (1882-1889)
• Volume 1 of 4 (as a single document)
• The Tragedy of Nero
• The Mayde's Metamorphosis
• The Martyr'd Souldier
• The Noble Souldier
• Volume 2 of 4 (as a single document)
• Dick of Devonshire
• The Lady Mother
• The Tragedy of Sir John Van Olden Barnavelt
• Captian Underwit
• Volume 3 of 4 (as a single document)
• Sir Gyles Goosecappe
• The Wisdome of Dr. Dodypoll
• The Distracted Emperor
• The Tyall of Chevalry
• Volume 4 of 4 (as a single document)
• Two Tragedies in One by Robert Yarington
• The Captives by Thomas Heywood
• The Costlie Whore
• Everie Woman in Her Humor

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Literary Periodicals

• The Spectator
• volume 1 of 3 volumes

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Anonymous

• Essays on the Tage, 1698
• The King and Queenes Entertainement at Richmond, 1636
• The History of Tom Thumb and Other Stories

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Joseph Addison (1672-1719) (alone)

• Essays and Tales
• Public Credit
• Household Superstitions
• Opera Lions
• Women and Wives
• The Italian Opera
• Lampoons
• True and False Humour
• Sa Ga Yean Qua Rash Tow's Impressions of London
• The Vision of Marraton
• Six Papers on Wit
• Friendship
• Chevy-Chase (Two Papers)
• A Dream of the Painters
• Spare Time (Two Papers)
• Censure
• The English Language
• The Vision of Mirza
• Genius
• Theodosius and Constantia
• Good Nature
• A Grinning Match
• Trust in God
• Poetical Works of Addision, Gay's Fables, and Somerville's Chase

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Joseph Addison (1672-1719) and Richard Steele (1672-1729)

• Days with Roger de Coverley (Papers from the Spectator)
• Sir Roger's Family
• Mr. Will Wimble
• The Picture Gallery
• A Country Sunday
• The Widow
• The Chase
• The County Assizes
• The Spectator's Return to Town
• The Spectator
• volume 1 of 3 volumes

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Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626)

• The Advancement of Learning
• Essays
• Of Truth
• Of Death
• Of Unity in Religion
• Of Revenge
• Of Adversity
• Of Simulation and Dissimulation
• Of Parents and Children
• Of Marriage and Single Life
• Of Envy
• Of Love
• Of Great Place
• Of Boldness
• Of Goodness and Goodness of Nature
• Of Nobility
• Of Seditions and Troubles
• Of Atheism
• Of Superstition
• Of Travel
• Of Empire
• Of Counsel
• Of Delays
• Of Cunning
• Of Wisdom for a Man's Self
• Of Innovations
• Of Dispatch
• Of Seeming Wise
• Of Friendship
• Of Expense
• Of the True Greatness of Kingdoms and Estates
• Of Regiment of Health
• Of Suspicion
• Of Discourse
• Of Plantations
• Of Riches
• Of Prophecies
• Of Ambition
• Of Mosques and Triumphs
• Of Nature in Men
• Of Custom and Education
• Of Fortune
• Of Usury
• Of Youth and Age
• Of Beauty
• Of Deformity
• Of Building
• Of Gardens
• Of Negotiating
• Of Followers and Friends
• Of Suitors
• Of Studies
• Of Faction
• Of Ceremonies and Respects
• Of Praise
• Of Vain-glory
• Of Honor and Reputation
• Of Judicature
• Of Anger
• Of Vicissitude of Things
• Of Fame
• The New Atlantis
• Valerius Terminus: of the Interpretation of Nature
• about Bacon
• Bacon by R.W. Church

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Thomas Barker

•  Barker's Delight: or, The Art of Angling (2nd ed., 1659)

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Francis Beaumont (1584-1616) and John Fletcher (1579-1625)

•  Salmacis and Hermaphroditus
• Works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher
• Volume 1 of 10 (as a single file)
• The Maid's Tragedy
• Philaster
• A King and No King
• The Scornful Lady
• The Custom of the Country
• The Beggar's Bush
• The Custom of the Country
• The Elder Brother
• The Faithful Sheperdhess
• The False One
• The Maid's Tragedy
• Philaster
• The Scornful Lady
• The Humorous Lieutenant
• A King and No King
• The Laws of Candy
• Rule a Wilfe and Have a Wife
• The Spanish Curate
• Wit Without Money

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John Beaumont

• Theatre of Apollo

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Aphra Behn (1640-1689)

• The Ten Pleasures of Marriage
• Love Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister
• Works, volume 1 (plays)
• The Rover, parts 1 and 2
• The Dutch Lover
• The Round-Heads
• Works, volume 2 (plays)
• Abdelazer
• The Young King
• The City Heiress
• The Feign'd Curtezan
• Works, volume 3 (plays)
• The Town-Fop
• The False Count
• The Lucky Chance
• The Emperor of the Moon

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Edward Bennett

•  A treatise divided into three parts, touching the inconveniences, that  the Importation of Tobacco out of Spain, hath brought into this land.

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Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682)

• Religio Medici, Hydrotaphia, and The Letter to a Friend
• Sire Thomas Browne and His Religion Medici: an appreciation by Alexander Whyte

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John Bunyan (1628-1688)

From The Works of John Bunyan, with an Introduction to Each Treatise, Notes, and a Sketch of His Life, Times, and Contemporaries, Experimental, Docrinal, and Practical. Edited by George Offor

• Grace Abounding
• Imprisonment
• Mr. Bunyan's Dying Sayings
• Prison Meditations
• The Jerusalem Sinner Saved
• The Greatness of the Soul
• The Work of Jesus Christ as an Advocate
• Christ a Complete Saviour
• Come and Welcome to Jesus Christ
• Justification by an Imputed Righteousness
• Saved by Grace
• The Strait Gate
• Light for Them That Sit in Darkness
• A Treatise of the Fear of God
• The Doctrine of the Law and Grace Unfolded
• Israel's Hope Encouraged
• I Will Pray With the Spirit and With the Understanding
• The Saints' Privilege and Profit
• The Acceptable Sacrifice
• Paul's Departure and Crown
• The Desire of the Righteous Granted
• The Saint's Knowledge of Christ's Love
• Of Antichrist and His Ruin
• The Resurrection of the Dead and Eternal Judgment
• Some Gospel Truths Opened
• A Vindication of Gospel Truths Opened
• A Discourse Upon the Pharisee and the Publican
• A Defence of the Doctrine of Justification
• Reprobation Asserted
• Questions about the Nature and Perpetuity of the Seventh-Day Sabbath
• Of the Trinity and a Christian
• Scriptural Poems
• An Exposition on the First Ten Chapters of Genesis
• A Holy Life, the Beauty of Christianity
• Christian Behavior
• A Caution to Stir Up to Watch Against Sin
• A Discourse of the Building, Nature, Excellency, and Government of the House of God
• John Bunyan on the Terms of Communion and Fellowship of Christians at the Table of the Lord
• Differences in Judgment about Water Baptism
• Peaceable Principles and True
• A Case of Conscience Resolved
• Instruction for the Ignorant
• Seasonable Counsel
• An Exhortation to Peace and Unity
• Mr. Bunyan's Last Sermon
• The Pilgrims Progress
• Part 1
• Part 2
• The Holy War
• The Heavenly Footman
• The Holy City or the New Jerusalem
• Solomon's Temple Spiritualized
• A Discourse of the House of the Forest of lebanon
• The Water of Life
• The Barren Fig-Tree
• The Life and Death of Mr. Badman
• A Few Sighs from Hell
• One Thing is Needful
• A Book for Boys and Girls
• About John Bunyan
• Memoir by George Offor
• Continuation of Bunyan's Life
• The Struggler by Charles Doe
• Life of Bunyan by Rev. James Hamilton
• The Life of John Bunyan by Venables
• The Riches of Bunyan by Jeremiah Chaplin

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Robert Burton (1576-1640)

• Anatomy of Melancholy (first published in 1621)

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Samuel Butler (1613-1680)

• Hudibras

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Thomas Campion

• Observations in the Art of English Poesie

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George Chapman (1559-1634)

• Bussy d'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy d'Ambois

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William Congreve (1670-1729)

• The Double-Dealer
• Incognita
• The Judgment of Paris
• Love for Love
• The Old Bachelor
• Semele
• The Way of the World

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Ebenezer Cooke (1667-1732)

The Sot-Weed Factor (cf. the novel of the same name by John Barth)

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Abraham Cowley (1618-1667)

• Essays

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Samuel Daniel

• A Defence of Ryme
• Delia

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Daniel Defoe (1660-1731)

• Captain Singleton
• The Consolidator
• Dickory Cronke (story)
• An Essay upon Projects
• Everybody's Business is Nobody's Business (article)
• From London to Land's End
• Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
• History of the Plague in London
• Journal of the Plague Year
• The Memoirs of a Cavalier
• Moll Flanders
• Of Captain Mission
• Robinson Crusoe
• Tour Through the Eastern Counties of England
• A Vindication of the Press, 1718
• about Daniel Defoe
• Daniel Defoe by William Minto

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Thomas Dekker (1570-1632)

•  The Wonderfull yeare
• The Noble Spanish Soldier

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Michael Drayton (1563-1631)

• Endimion and Phoebe
• Minor Poems of Michael Drayton, edited by Cyril Brett

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John Dryden (1631-1700)

• Dramatic Works of Dryden, edited by George Saintsbury, volume 1
• All For Love
• Discourses on Satire and Epic Poetry
• His Majesties' Declaration Defended, by John Dryden, 1681
• Macflecknoe
• Palamon and Arcite
• Poetical Works of Dryden
• volume 1
• volume 2
• Works of Dryden edited by Sir Walter Scott, in 18 volumes
• volume 2
• The Wild Gallant, a Comedy  Preface
• The Rival Ladies, a Tragi-comedy
• The Indian Queen, a Tragedy
• The Indian Emperor, or the Conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards
• Defence of an Essay of Dramatic Poesy
• Connection of the Indian Emperor to the Indian Queen
• Secret Love, or the Maiden Queen
• volume 4
• The Conquest of Granada parts 1 and 2
• Marriage a la Mode
• The Assignation
• volume 5
• Amboyna
• The State of Innocence
• Aureng-zebe
• All for Love
• volume 6
• Lumberham
• Oedipus
• Troilus and Cressida
• The Spanish Friar
• volume 16
• Life of St. Francis Xavier

about John Dryden

• Anti-Achitophel -- three verse replies to Dryden's Absolam and Achitophel by Elkanah Settle, Samuel Pordage and Anonymous
• Dryden's Exemplary Drama by Richard Seltzer

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John Dury

• The Reformed Librarie-Keeper, 1650

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John Evelyn (1620-1706)

• Sylva, volume 1

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George Farquhar (1678-1707)

• The Beaux-Stratagem

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George Fox

• Selected Epistles

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William Goddard

• Neaste of Waspes

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Stephen Gosson

• Schoole of Abuse

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Joseph Hall, Bishop of Exeter

• Characters of Virtues and Vices

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 Richard Haklyut (1552-1616)

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation by

• Volume 1 -- Northern Europe
• Volume 2-- Northeastern Europe and Adjacent Countries, Part 1 Tartary
• Volume 3 -- Northeastern Europe and Adjacent Countries, Part 2 The Muscovy Company and the North-Eastern Passage, Section 1
• Volume 4 -- Northeastern Europe and Adjacent Countries, Part 2 The Muscovy Company and the North-Eastern Passage, Section 2
• Volume 5 -- Central and Southern Europe
• Volume 6 -- Madeira and the Canaries; Ancient Asia, Africa, Etc.
• Volume 7 -- England's Naval Exploits Against Spain
• Volume 8 -- Asia Part 1
• Volume 9 -- Asia Part 2
• Volume 10 -- Asia Part 3
• Volume 11 -- Africa
• Volume 12 -- English Nation in America
• Voyager's Tales
• Voyages in Search of the Northwest Passage

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Anthony Hamilton

• Memoirs of Count Gramont (edited by Sir Walter Scott)

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Robert Herrick (1591-1674)

• Lyrical Poems
• The Web of Life

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Thomas Heywood

•  A funerall elegie upon the death of Henry, prince of Wales. 1613. (short poem)

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Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679)

• Leviathan by John Hobbes

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Ben Jonson (1572-1637)

• The Alchemist
• Cynthia's Revels
• Discoveries Made Upon Men and Matter
• Epicoene, or the Silent Woman
• Every Man in His Humor
• Every Man out of His Humor
• The Masque of Beauty (short)
• The Masque of Blacknesse (short)
• The Poetaster
• Sejanus: His Fall
• Volpone or the Fox

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John Locke (1632-1704)

• Two Treatises of Government by John Locke
• Second Treatise of Government by John Locke
• John Locke
• An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
• volume 1
• volume 2

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Thomas Lodge

•  A Reply to Stephen Gosson's Schoole of Abuse in Defence of Poetry,  Musick, and Stage Plays.
• Rosalynde

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Richard Lovelace

• Lucasta

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Charles Mackay, editor

• Cavalier Songs 1642-1684

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Andrew Marvell (1621-1678)

• Andrew Marvell by Augustine Birrell

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John Milton (1608-1674)

• Areopagitica
• Comus
• Four Poems
• L'Allegro
• Comus
• Il Penseroso
• Lycidas
• Of Education
• Poemata (Latin, Greek, and Italian poems) translated to English by William Cowper
• Poetical Works(four books in one document)
• Miscellaneous Poems
• Paradise Lost
• Paradise Regained
• Samson Agonistes
• about Milton
• Life of Milton by David Masson
• Volume 3
• Volume 5
• Milton by Mark Pattison
• Mary Powell and Deborah's Diary by Anne Manning (historical novel about Milton's wife)

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Thomas Nash (1567-1601)

• Pierce Pennilesse
• The Unfortunate Traveller or the Life of Jack Wilton

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Henry Neville

• The Isle of Pines, 1668

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Richard Niccols

• The Beggars Ape

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Samuel Pepys (1633-1703)

• Diary of Samuel Pepys

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Henry Purcell  1659 - 1695, libretti of operas, in English

• Dido and Eneas (1689, Tate Nahum)
• The Indian Queen (1695, final masque by D. Purcell; J. Dryden and R. Howard)

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Samuel Rid

• The Art of Iugling or Legerdemaine, 1612

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Samuel Rutherford (1600-1661)

• Samuel Rutherford and Some of His Correspondents by Alexander Whyte

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Thomas Scott

•  Certaine reasons and arguments of policie, why the king of England should enter into warre with the Spaniard. 1624

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Ester Sowernam

• Ester Hath Hanged Haman

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Rachel Speght

• Mortalities Memorandum
• A Mouzell for Melastomus

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Richard Steele (1672-1729)

• Isaac Bickerstaff, Physician and Astrologer (Papers from the "Tatler")
• with Joseph Addison
• Days with Roger de Coverley (Papers from the Spectator)
• Sir Roger's Family
• Mr. Will Wimble
• The Picture Gallery
• A Country Sunday
• The Widow
• The Chase
• The County Assizes
• The Spectator's Return to Town
• The Spectator
• volume 1 of 3 volumes

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Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)

• The Battle of the Books and Other Short Pieces
• The Battle of the Books
• A Meditation upon a Broomstick
• Predictions for the Year 1708
• The Accomplishment of the First Mr. Bickerstaff's Predictions
• Baucis and Philemon
• The Logicians Refuted
• The Puppet Show
• Cadenus and Vanessa
• Stella's Birthdays
• To Stella
• The First He Wrote Oct. 17, 1727
• The Second Prayer Ws Written Nov. 6, 1727
• The Beasts' Confession (1732)
• Abolishing Christianity
• Hints Toward an Essay on Converation
• Thoughts on Various Subjects
• The Bickerstaff Partridge Papers (article)
• Gulliver's Travels
• The Journal to Stella
• A Modest Proposal (article)
• Poems of Jonathan Swift, edited by William Ernest Browning
• volume 1
• volume 2
• Prose Works of Jonathan Swift
• volume 3
• volume 4
• volume 6
• volume 7
• volume 9
• volume 10
• A Tale of a Tub
• Three Sermons, Three Prayers (short)

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Edmund Waller and Sir John Denham

• Poetical Works

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Isaak Walton ( ? - 1683)

• The Compleat Angler (1653)
• Waltoniana: previously unpublished verse and prose by Isaak Walton (1878)
• Walton's Lives -- Lives of John Donne, Henry Wotton, Richard Hooker, George Herbert, etc., volume 2

about Isaak Walton

• Introduction to the Compleat Angler by Andrew Lang

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John Webster (1580?-1635?)

• The Duchess of Malfi
• The Monumental Column
• The White Devil

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France and French Canada

History

• Ancien Regime, lectures by Charles Kingsley
• Le Cour de Louis XIV by Imbert de Saint-Amand
• Memoirs of Jean Francois Paul de Gondi, Cardinal de Retz, Written by Himself, Being Historic Court Memoirs of the Great Events during the Minority of Louis XIV. and the Administration of Cardinal Mazarin. (4 volumes in one file)
• Memoirs of Madame La Marquise de Montespan Written by Herself, Being the Historic Memoirs of the Court of Louis XIV (7 volumes in one file)
• Memoirs of the Court of Louis XIV and of the Regency, Being the Secret Memoirs of the Mother of the Regent, Madame Elizabeth-Charlotte of Bavaria, Duchesse d'Orleans (4 volumes in one file)
• Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency by the Duck of Saint-Simon (15 volumes in one file)
• Les Muses de la Nouvelle France by Marc Lescarbot, 1612
• Life, Letters, and Epicurean Philosophy of Ninon de l'Enclos, the Celebrated Beauty of the 17th Century by Robinson and Overton, 1903
• Three French Moralists and the Gallantry of Frane by Edmund Gosse
• Origins of Contemporary France, Volume 1, The Ancient Regime by Hippolyte Taine

Book 1

Book 2

Book 3

Book 4

Book 5

Boileau (1636-1711)

• Le Lutrin
• in French with accents
• in French without accents

Jean de la Bruyere (1645-1696)

• Les Caracteres (in French), 1688

Pierre Corneille (1606-1684)

• The Cid
• Polyeucte, translated to English by Thomas Constable

Rene Descartes (1596-1650)

• Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting the Reason and Seeking Truth in the Sciences
• Principles of Philosophy

Le Sieur Desfontaines (?-1652)

• Eurimedon (in French), 1637
• L'Illustre Comedien, 1645
• La Vraye Suitte du Cid, 1638

Alexandre Dumas

• The Three Musketeers Saga by Alexander Dumas, in English, historical novels
• The Three Musketeers (covering 1625-1628)
• Twenty Years After (covering 1648-49)
• The Vicomte de Bragelonne (covering 1660)
• Ten Years Later (covering 1660-1661)
• Louise de la Valliere (covering 1661)
• The Man in the Iron Mask (covering 1661-1673)

Guyon Guerin de Bouscal (? - 1657)

• La Mort de Brute et de Porcie

Madame de Lafayette (1634-1693)

• The Princess of Cleves, in English
• La Princesse de Cleves, in French
• The Princess of Monpensier, translated to English by Oliver C. Colt

La Fontaine (1621-1695)

• Fables, in English
• Fables, in French
• volume 1
• volume 2
• Tales and Novels, in English

Moliere (pseudonumn of Jean-Baptiste Poquelin) (1622-1673)

• Amphritryon, translated to English by A.R. Waller
• L'Avare, in French
• The Miser (L'avare) in English
• Another Look at Moliere's L'Avare by Richard Seltzer
• The Bores (Les Facheux in English)
• The Countess of Escarbagnas (La Comtesse d'Escarbagnas)
• Don Garcia of Navarre (Don Garcie de Navarre in English)
• Don Juan, in French
• L'Etourdi, in French
• The Imaginary Invalid (Le Malade Imaginaire), 1673, translated by Charles Wall
• The Impostures of Scapin (Les Fourberies de Scapin), 1677, translated by Charles Wall
• The Learned Women (Les Femmes Savantes), 1692, translated by Charles Wall
• The Love Tiff (Le Depit Amoureux in English)
• Le Mariage Force
• Le Medecin Marge Lui
• The Middle Class Gentleman, translated to English by Phililp Dwight Jones
• Monsieur de Pourceaugnac, translated by Charles Wall
• Les Precieuses Ridicules
• The Pretentious Young Ladies (Les Precieuses Ridicules in English)
• Psyche, in English
• The School for Husbands (L'Ecole de Maris in English)
• Sganarelle
• The Shopkeeper Turned Gentleman (Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme)
• Tartuffe, translated to English by Curtis Hidden Page

about Moliere

• Vie de Moliere by Voltaire

Charels Perrault

• Tales of Mother Goose

Jean Baptiste Racine (1639-1699)

• Phaedra, translated to English by Robert Bruce Boswell

Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld (1613-1680)

• Reflections, translated by J.W. Willis Bund

Edmond Rostand (1868-1918)

• Cyrano de Bergerac  translated by Gladys Thomas and Mary F. Guillemard, play

Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve (1804-1869)

• Portraits Litteraires

Paul Scaron (1610-1660)

• Le Prince Corsaire

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Germany

History

History of the Thirty Years' War, Volume 1 by Friedrich Schiller

The Lion of The North: A Tale of the Times of Gustavus Adolphus by G. A. Henty, historical novel

Won by the Sword: a Story of the Thirty Years' War by G.A. Henty, historical novel

The Camp of Wallenstein by Friedrich Schiller, translated by James Churchill, play

The Death of Wallenstein by Friedrich Schiller, translated by S. T. Coleridge, play

Wallensteins Lager by Friedrich Schiller, in German, play

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Italy

History

• Tragedies of the Medici by Edgcumbe Staley

Tommaso Campanella (1568-1639)

• The Sonnets of Michael Angelo Bunarroti and Tommaso Campanella, translated by John Symonds

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Netherlands

History

John Lothrop Motley

• History of the United Netherlands 1600-1609 (11 volumes in one file)
• The Life of John of Barneveld 1609-1615
• The Life of John of Barneveld 1614-1623
• History of the Revolt of the Netherlands by Frederick Schiller
• Holland: The History of the Netherlands by Thomas Colley Grattan
• By Pike and Dyke by G.A. Henty, historical novel
• By England's Aid or the Freeing of the Netherlands by G.A. Henty, historical novel
• A Voyage to New Holland Etc. int he Year 1699 by Captain William Dampier

Science

• Treatise on Light by Christiaan Huygens

Rembrandt (1606t-1669)

• Rembrandt by Mortimer Menpes
• Rembrandt by Estelle Hurll, (in .html form, with illustrations
• Rembrandt by Josif Israels

Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677)

• Ethics
• Part 1
• Part 2
• Part 3
• Part 4
• Part 5
• On the Improvement of the Understanding
• Theologico-Political Treatise
• Part 1
• Part 2
• Part 3
• Part 4

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Spain, Portugal, and Latin America

History

• Christopher Columbus by Filson Young
• Christopher Columbus by Mildred Stapley
• The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus by Washington Irving
• volume 2
• Chocolate or an Indian Drinke by Captain James Wentworth, 1652
• Manco, the Peruvian Chief, an Englishman's Adventures in the Coutnry of the Incas by W.H.G. Kingston (historical novel)
• Popery Truly Display'd in its Bloody Colours: Or, a faithful Narrative of the Horrid and Unexampled Massacres, Butcheries, and all manner of Cruelties, that Hell and Malice could invent, committed by the Popish Spanish Party on the inhabitants of _West-India_by Bartholomew de las Casas, 1689
• Vanished Arcadia: Being Some Account of the Jesuits in Paraguay 1607 to 1767 by R.B. Cunninghame Graham
• The Voyage of Verazzano by Henry Murphy
• A Voyage to Abyssinia by Father Jerome Lobo translated from the French by Samuel Johnson.

Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616)

• Don Quixote
• in English

in Spanish

Pedro Calderon de la Barca (1600-1681)

• Life is a Dream, in English, translated by Edward Fitzgerald
• Life is a Dream, in English, translated by Denis McCarthy
• The Purgatory of St. Patrick, in English, translated by Denis McCarthy
• The Wonder-Working Magician, in English, translated by Denis McCarthy