Warm but cloudy. Distribution as usual. Evening at the Mansion. Rain.

My morning was not very profitably spent. Yet I managed to put together some materials for the shape of my Review and matured it very considerably in my mind. This process always appears to me a waste of time even when it is in fact the most undoubted improvement of it.

Read a little of Lessing’s Contributions to the life of Sophocles but as they appear to me to end only in verbal criticism I shall give it up for Nathan the Wise.

After dinner, occupied in wandering among the fields but read of Lucan book 3. l. 1–300, and a little of Grimm. Evening at the Mansion. It rained a warm rain.