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opportunity of distinguishing myself this
morning in recitation for the recitations
of the "Boston boys" showed how they had
spent the preceding day. By their looks
you would have imagined that they had.
all been driven through a knot-hole
I was assuredly glad that I ^[staid?] in Old literary
Andover.---- I think that I in some degree
comprehend and feel more and more the
necessity of exerting myself. To speak
candidly I believe that I am lazy but
if I can do anything by a determined
resolution & be diligent and persevering
I shall do it. My studies this term have in
no degree tended to make me more
indolent. Those Greek irregular verbs are the
most violent enemies of this fault which
I have seen, read about, or heard of.

I like my "Wilson" very much indeed.
It is very interesting and written in a
fine poetical style. I think with my
deficiency of language that a better book
could not have been found. I have nearly
finished one long article in which the
attempts to elucidate the fact that there
is but one great poem in the English
Language and that one is Paradise Lost
The aforesaid article is headed "An hours
talk about Poetry". My Mirror will ^not come