"Like other men who spend their lives in obscure literary research, he had a secret ambition to appear in print which was checked by cold fits of diffidence, fear of criticism and habits of indolence and procrastination." - Sir Walter Scott, 'The Antiquary'
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A drawing by Dutch artist Jan Veth of a man of the 19th century sitting in an ornate wooden chair and writing in a notebook. He is smoking an old-fashioned pipe with along curved stem.
Roseanna Cunningham · 1 · 16h ago 
