Wednesday, 17 January 1827: 'I observed in the papers my old friend Gifford's funeral. He was a man of rare attainments and many excellent qualities. The translation of Juvenal is one of the best versions ever made of a classical author and his Satire of the Baviad and Maeviad squabashd at one blow a set of coxcombs who might have humbugd the world long enough [goes on to comment further, and to reproduce two six-line passages from 'Ode to the Rev. John Ireland,' from the Maeviad].'