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

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH LITERATURE IN THE UNIVERSITY
OF CALIFORNIA

RARY

THE

UNIVERSITY

OF

Boston

ALLYN AND BACON
AND CHICAGO

Copyright, 1894

By L. D. SYLE

Plimpton Press

H. M. PLIMPTON & CO., PRINTERS & BINDERS,

NORWOOD, MASS., U.S.A.

SODALIVM VALEDICTORI YALENSIVM

ANNI MDCCCLXXIX

Lloyd Wheaton Bowers

Studenti Doctissimo

Condiscipulo Fidelissimo

Amico Constantissimo

DONVM

AMICITIAE

ON HIS HAVING ARRIVED AT THE AGE OF TWENTY-THREE

TO THE LORD GENERAL CROMWELL

EPISTLE TO RICHARD BOYLE, EARL OF BURLINGTON

EPISTLE TO AUGUSTUS

WINTER

THOMSON.

JOHNSON.

THE VANITY OF HUMAN WISHES

GRAY.

ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD

THE BARD