Selecting Text Exemplars. The following text samples primarily serve to exemplify the level of complexity and quality that the Standards require.Dr. Alistair Duckworth improved my prose style and provided me with important intertextual readings of Wilde. Lanoe Falconer's "Cecilia de Noel" (1891), Oscar Wilde's. My dear Robbie, I send you, in a roll separate from this, my letter to Alfred Douglas, which I hope will arrive safe. Likewise our notions of history, our ideas about how we interpret it, move forward as history changes. Little Oscar and the Art of the Illustrated Letter Have you noticed how most of Victorian life appears to correspond?