[…] my little body is aweary of this great world.

Klopstock has banished Alexandrines from German poetry; he has substituted in their stead hexameters, and ïambic verses without rhyme, according to the practice of the English, which give much greater liberty to the imagination.[…]The harmony of hexameters, and above all of ïambic verses, when without rhyme, is only natural harmony, inspired by sentiment: it is a marked and distinct declamation; while the Alexandrine verse imposes a certain species and turn of expression, from which it is difficult to get free.

This Place then is no other than the Chandler’s Shop; the known Seat of all the News; or, as it is vulgarly called, Gossiping, in every Parish in England.

And there is little research to address the issue head on. A previous study, published in 2000, surveyed doctors and found that three quarters of them said some patients addressed them by their first name.