TO LEWIS CAMPBELL, Esq.
11th March 1851.
Lings, King's Parade, Cambridge.
.
. . Have you read Soph. Ajax, or would
you
like to do it then?
I
have
been trying an experiment of sleeping after
hall. Last Friday
I went to bed from 5 to 9.30, and read very hard
from 10 to
2, and slept again from 2.30 to 7.
I
intend
some time to try for a week together sleeping
from 5 to 1,
and reading the rest of the morning. This is
practical
scepticism
with respect to early rising.
An
Oxford man is reported to have complained of the
lateness of morning
chapel; he could not sit up for it. I will have the
most of
my reading over by that time. . . .
Demosthenes
goes on. I begin to see what may be
written in prose, and
how ill it may be translated.
It
is a
, so there is less declamation and more
demonstration; but the
arguments, small at first, are added as they proceed, and never left
behind, so by oft repetition
they seem stronger than they are.
Last
night I searched for difficult problems to puzzle
Steele and Porter
junior with. Here are some much more mild, which we
freshmen
get. . . .
It is twelve o'clock, and I have to do Demosthenes tomorrow before
breakfast.
This implies Chapel, therefore bed,
therefore I shut
up.