stepping there, with face toward the sun,

Stopped seldom to pluck weeds or ask their names. — BROWNING.

...

FROM

MILTON TO TENNYSON

MASTERPIECES OF ENGLISH POETRY

EDITED WITH

NOTES DESCRIPTIVE AND CRITICAL

BY

L. DUPONT SYLE, M.A. (YALE)

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH LITERATURE IN THE UNIVERSITY
OF CALIFORNIA

Boston

ALLYN AND BACON

AND CHICAGO

SODALIVM VALEDICTORI YALENSIVM

ANNI MDCCCLXXIX

Lloyd Wheaton Bowers

Studenti Doctissimo

Condiscipulo Fidelissimo
Amico Constantissimo

DONVM

AMICITIAE

LYCIDAS

ON SHAKESPEARE

ON HIS HAVING ARRIVED AT THE AGE OF TWENTY-THREE

TO THE LORD GENERAL CROMWELL

ON THE LATE MASSACRE IN PIEDMONT

ON HIS BLINDNESS

TO CYRIACK SKINNER

WINTER

CONTENTS.

MILTON.

DRYDEN.

TO MY DEAR FRIEND, MR. CONGREVE

ALEXANDER'S FEAST

THE CHARACTER OF A GOOD PARSON

POPE.

EPISTLE TO MR. JERVAS

EPISTLE TO RICHARD BOYLE, EARL OF BURLINGTON

EPISTLE TO AUGUSTUS

THOMSON.

JOHNSON.