SELECTIONS

FROM

THE BRITISH POETS,

CHRONOLOGICALLY ARRANGED

FROM CHAUCER TO THE PRESENT TIME,

UNDER SEPARATE DIVISIONS,

WITH INTRODUCTIONS EXPLAINING THE DIFFERENT SPECIES

OF POETRY.

Who is it that ever was a scholar that doth not carry away some verses
which in his youth he learned, and even to old age serve him for hourly
lessons.-SIR PHILIP SIDNEY.

VOLUME I.

(only)

DUBLIN:

PUBLISHED BY DIRECTION OF THE

COMMISSIONERS OF NATIONAL EDUCATION IN IRELAND,
At their Office in Marlborough-street.

SOLD BY

W. CURRY, JUN., AND CO., DUBLIN; R. GROOMBRIDGE AND SONS, LONDON;
GEORGE PHILIP, LIVERPOOL; FRASER AND CO., EDINBURGH;
ARMOUR AND RAMSAY, AND DONOGHUE AND MANTZ, MONTREAL, CANADA;
AND CHUBB AND CO., HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA.

1851.
S.G