and spouted some _Prometheus
Vinctus_ there.

_June 26._--Started before 7. Walked eight miles to Banbury.
Breakfast there, and walked on twenty-two to Leamington. Arrived at
three and changed. Gaskell came in the evening. _Life of
Massinger_.

_July 6._ _Cuddesdon_.--Up soon after 6. Began my Harmony of Greek
Testament. Differential calculus, etc. Mathematics good while, but
in a rambling way. Began _Odyssey_. Papers. Walk with Anstice and
Hamilton. Turned a little bit of Livy into Greek. Conversation on
ethics and metaphysics at night.

_July 8._--Greek Testament. Bible with Anstice. Mathematics, long
but did little. Translated some _Phaedo_. Butler. Construed some
Thucydides at night. Making hay, etc., with S., H., and A. Great
fun. Shelley.

_July 10._--Greek Testament. Lightfoot. Butler, and writing a
marginal analysis. Old Testament with Anstice and a discussion on
early history. Mathematics. Cricket with H. and A. A conversation
of two hours at night with A. on religion till past 12. Thucydides,
etc. I cannot get anything done, though I seem to be employed a
good while. Short's sermon.

_July 11._--Church and Sunday-school teaching, morning and
evening. The children miserably deluded. Barrow. Short. Walked with
S.

_September 4._--Same as yesterday. _Paradise Lost._ Dined with the
bishop. Cards at night. I like them not, for they excite and keep
me awake. Construing Sophocles.

_September 18._--Went down early to Wheatley for letters. It is
indeed true [the death of Huskisson], and he, poor man, was in his
last agonies when I was playing cards on Wednesday night. When
shall we learn wisdom? Not that I see folly in the fact of playing
cards, but it is too often accompanied by a dissipated spirit.

He did not escape the usual sensations of the desultory when fate forces
them to wear the collar. 'In fact, at times I find it very irksome, and
my having the inclination to view it in that light is to me the surest
demonstration that my mind was in great want of some discipline, and
some regular exertion, for hitherto I have read by fits and starts and
just as it pleased me. I hope that this vacation [summer of 1830] will
confer on me one benefit more important than any having reference merely
to my class--I mean the habit of steady application and strict e