.stepping there, with face toward the sun,

Stopped seldom to pluck weeds or ask their names. —

FROM

BROWNING.

SODALIVM VALEDICTORI YALENSIVM

ANNI MDCCCLXXIX

Lloyd Wheaton Bowers

Studenti Doctissimo

Condiscipulo Fidelissimo

Amico Constantissimo

DONVM

AMICITIAE

FOREWORD

CONTENTS.

MILTON.

L'ALLEGRO.

IL PENSEROSO

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

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TO MY DEAR FRIEND, MR. CONGREVE

ALEXANDER'S FEAST

THE CHARACTER OF A GOOD PARSON

EPISTLE TO MR. JERVAS

POPE.

EPISTLE TO RICHARD BOYLE, EARL OF BURLINGTON

EPISTLE TO AUGUSTUS

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