Diary of John Quincy Adams, volume 1
1780-09-18
Went back to the school. Nothing remarkable to day.
Reading in a Volume of the guardian I found something in it which I will copy.1
Here follows, on two pages of his Diary, Philip Sidney's translation of Psalm 137, five
eight-line stanzas, which appeared in No. 18, not No. 19 as JQA cites it, of
The Guardian, 1 April 1713. In JQA's edition of
the work, London, 1745, at MQA, it is found
at 1:84–85.