The Devil's Dictionary - iTeX translation reports

inverted gentleman.
BLANK-VERSE, n. Unrhymed iambic pentameters—
the most difficult kind of English verse to write acceptably;
a kind, therefore, much affected by those who
cannot acceptably write any kind.
BODY-SNATCHER, n. A robber of grave-worms. One
who supplies the young physicians with that with which
the old physicians have supplied the undertaker. The
hyena.
“One night,” a doctor said, “last fall,
I and my comrades, four in all,
When visiting a graveyard stood
Within the shadow of a wall.
“While waiting for the moon to sink
We saw a wild hyena slink
About a new-made grave, and then
Begin to excavate its brink!
“Shocked by the horrid act, we made
A sally from our ambuscade,
And, falling on the unholy beast,
Dispatched him with a pick and spade.”