THE

LAWS OF VERSE.

LONDON: PRINTED BY

SPOTTISWOODE AND CO., NEW-STREET SQUARE AND PARLIAMENT STREET

Of the Institute of France, the Royal Academies of Science of Berlin, Göttingen.

Naples, Milan, &c. &c. &c.;

Examiner in Mathematics to the University of London.

LONGMAN S,

LONDON:

GREEN, AND CO.

1870.

270. f. 206.

NUS!

ΤΟ

MATTHEW ARNOLD, ESQ., D.C.L.

SOMEWHILE PROFESSOR OF POETRY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD,

A CONSUMMATE MASTER OF THE ART,

IN GRATEFUL RECOGNITION OF

MUCH VALUABLE CRITICISM AND GENEROUS ENCOURAGEMENT

RECEIVED AT HIS HANDS,

I Dedicate

THIS ATTEMPT ΤΟ DISPLAY AND EXEMPLIFY

THE LAWS OF VERSE.