I shall say very little about the value of a good education, nor shall I stop to prove that the customary method of education is bad; this has been done again and again, and I do not wish to fill my book with things which everyone knows.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Canning, in the "Anti-Jacobin," used it with ludicrous effect in Rogero's song, and a few lines from that will illustrate and explain the trick I allude to:— "Here doom'd to starve on water gru- -el, never shall I see the U- -niversity of Gottingen!"
— from Practical Guide to English Versification With a Compendious Dictionary of Rhymes, an Examination of Classical Measures, and Comments Upon Burlesque and Comic Verse, Vers de Société, and Song-writing by Tom Hood

[474] Sun, moon, and thou, vain world, adieu, That Kings and priests are plotting in; Here doomed to starve on water gru- -el, never shall I see the U- -niversity of Göttingen, -niversity of Göttingen.
— from William Pitt and the Great War by J. Holland (John Holland) Rose

"Sun, moon, and thou, vain world, adieu, That kings and priests are plotting in; Here doomed to starve on water gru- -el, never shall I see the U- -niversity of Gottingen, -niversity of Gottingen."
— from History of English Humour, Vol. 2 by A. G. K. (Alfred Guy Kingan) L'Estrange