Author:Percival Stockdale

Percival Stockdale
(1736–1811)

Percival Stockdale

Works

• A Poetical Address to the Supreme Being (Berwick [1764])
• The Constituents: a poem (1765) IA
• Life of Edmund Waller, prefixed to the poet's Works (1772) IA
• The Poet: A Poem (1773) 2nd ed. (external scan)
• Three Discourses: two against Luxury and Dissipation, one on Universal Benevolence (1773)
• Six Discourses, to which is prefixed an introduction containing a view of the genuine Ancient Philosophy, London, 1777
• An Enquiry into the Nature and Genuine Laws of Poetry; including a particular defence of the Writings and Genius of Mr. Pope (1778) IA
• Miscellanies in Prose and Verse (1778)
• Letters from Lord Rivers to Sir C. Cardigan (1778), translation from Marie Jeanne Riccoboni
• An Examination of the Important Question whether Education at a Great School or by Private Tuition is preferable, (1782) (external scan)
• Essay on Misanthropy, (1783) (external scan)
• Sermons on Important and Interesting Subjects (1784)
• Three Poems (1784) Google Books
• Ximenes, (1788) (external scan)
• Thirteen Sermons to Seamen, preached on board H.M.S. Leander in the Bay of Gibraltar (1791) (external scan)
• Letter to Granville Sharp, suggested by the present Insurrection of the Negroes in the Island of St. Domingo (1791) (external scan)
• Observations on the Writings and Conduct of our present Political and Religious Reformers (1792)
• Poetical Thoughts and Views on the Banks of the Wear (1792)
• Letters between the Honourable and Right Reverend Shute, by Divine Providence, Lord Bishop of Durham ... and Percival Stockdale, (1792) (external scan)
• Letter to Mr. Bryant, occasioned by his late Remarks on Mr. Pope's Universal Prayer, (1793) Google Books
• (ed.) Seasons by James Thomson (1793) (HathiTrust)
• Letter to a Gentleman of the Philanthropic Society on the Liberty of the Press (1794)
• The Invincible Island: a poem, with introductory Observations on the present War, (1797) IA
• A Letter to the Honourable and Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of Durham; on the Slave-Trade (1799) (external scan)
• A Discourse on the Duties and Advantages of Old Age, (1801) (external scan)
• A Remonstrance against Inhumanity to Animals, and particularly against the Savage Practice of Bull-Baiting, (1802) (external scan)
• Verses on the abolition of the slave trade (1804)
• Lectures on the truly eminent English Poets (1807) IA
• Poems, a selection (1808)
• Memoirs of his Life and Writings, containing many interesting Anecdotes of the Illustrious Men with whom he was connected, (1809). (HathiTrust)

As translator

• The Amyntas of Tasso, by Torquato Tasso (1770)
• Antiquities of Greece, from the Latin of Lambert Bos, (1772) (HathiTrust)
• Institutions, Manners, and Customs of the Ancient Nations, French original by Sabbathier

Works about Stockdale

• "Stockdale, Percival," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.