My dear sir, here is a chapter, which, be it for better or worse is

From beginning to end about hexameter verses;

Could they but jingle a little, ’twere better, perhaps; but the trouble

Really is endless, of hunting for rhymes that have all to be double.

Adieu, till the next time, when either in prose or in rhyme I

Haply may find something better to gossip about in a letter.

In the meanwhile, my dear sir, till writing again may beseem us,

I am, your faithful, obliged, and obedient,

Parepidemus.

A PASSAGE UPON OXFORD STUDIES:
EXTRACTED FROM A REVIEW OF THE OXFORD UNIVERSITY
COMMISSIONERS’ REPORT, 1852.