(Extract from Thomas Jefferson Hogg’s biography, quoted in the Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes, edited by James Sutherland. I do like that use of “impatiently”.) Fellow readers, how conventional or extreme are your reading habits? Joseph Severn, Posthumous Portrait of Shelley Writing ‘Prome...
aloof: remote in manner; "stood apart with aloof dignity"; "a distant smile"; "he was upstage with strangers" separate or apart in time; "distant events"; "the remote past or future" located far away spatially; "distant lands"; "remote stars" Distant is the final posthumous album by ...