“The first lines struck him as indicating insanity in the writer. It was a wild proposal (written apparently after the great fire of London) to rebuild it with stone, and attempting to prove, on a calculation wild, false and yet sometimes plausible, that this could be done out of the colossal fragments of Stonehenge, which the writer proposed to remove for that purpose. Subjoined were several grotesque drawings of engines designed to remove those massive blocks, And in a corner of the page was a note, -

‘I would have drawn these more accurately, but was not allowed a knife to mend my pen.’” 

Charles Maturin – Melmoth the Wanderer, 1820