Diary of John Quincy Adams, volume 1
1780-09-07
Holiday for the first Class, but not for the rest of the School.
Reading a Volume of the Spectator I found this.1
Nothing very remarkable to day.
Here follow, on about two pages in the Diary,
31 lines cited by JQA as coming from “Spectator Vol 9th. page 270–271,” which
appeared in The Spectator No. 628, 3 Dec. 1714 (ed. Bond, 5:147–148). The piece is the entire
first scene of Act V of Addison's play Cato.