text:  Does the youth come from Oxford? His head is full of Homer and Virgil Horace and AEschylus: he could tell you all the amours of Mars and Venus of Jupiter and Leda; he could rival Orpheus or Pindar in the melody of his Greek verses and Cicero or Livy in the correctness of his Latin prose; but as unfortunately he has to write neither about gods nor goddesses but mere mortals and neither in Greek verse nor Latin verse but good English prose he is utterly at a loss alike for thought and expression