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Excerpt from Aristophanes at Oxford There is a 'tide in the afl'airs' of young men, which taken at the flood' irresistibly impels them to rush into print, and very often, what is worse, into poetry. Their aims are so lofty and serious and the fulfilment of them so inadequate, that they generally only succeed in writing nonsense and in covering themselves with ridicule. We, though afflicted with the same 'itch, have taken warning by the sad and premature fate of many of our most promising young poets, and have begun from the very first with the intention of writing nonsense, that so perhaps the thoughtful reader may discover a grain of sense therein; and by ridiculing others we hope to avert ridicule from ourselves. If that nonsense bears evident marks of haste, we plead in excuse our desire to add something to the annual. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.