“... in the world’s terms, someone whose art simply produced herself: Alice James, sister of Henry and William, Alice with her ‘squalid indigestions’, her ‘spinal neurosis’ and her ‘stomachic gout’. Between them the James siblings shared a hospital full of symptoms, but Alice was the champion when it came to baffling doctors. When after ...”

“... for following his own example or for not doing what he himself could have done when he was in power. His is the phrase which gives Rose his title, and anyone might agree that the conflict was squalid. But was it senseless? Rose makes no excuses for the brutality of the Irgun, which culminated in April 1948, some weeks before Israel was declared ...”

“... sonata to the pianist Richard Buhlig who, impressed by its maturity, sent it on to the composer Henry Cowell, then a major figure in the American avant-garde and an outspoken advocate of non-Western musical traditions. He liked the piece enough to include it in a concert programme and encouraged Cage to visit him in New York. Cowell hired Cage as his ...”

“... but a meteor had made the world irritable, nervous, querulous, unreasonable and afraid,’ Henry Adams wrote in his autobiography (1907): ‘All the new forces, condensed into corporations, were demanding a new type of man – a man with ten times the endurance, energy, will and mind of the old type.’ When O’Neill finally emerged on the scene in ...”

“... constitution is remarkably flexible and in the hands of lawyers and civil servants the levers of power were rapidly deployed, the machinery of state manoeuvred. On 10 December the family gathered at Windsor to sign the Instrument of Abdication. The younger brothers witnessed the king’s signature before adding their own. After the Duke of York came the ...”

“... discusses are Hever Castle in Kent, the home of Anne Boleyn, which was done up by the Astors, and Henry VIII’s Eltham Palace, which acquired a dazzling if slightly incongruous extension in the Moderne style for the Courtaulds. Estate agents were not slow to take note of the historical wow factor and Tinniswood notes that extensive as Elizabeth I’s ...”

“... in the Commons responded to Wilberforce’s motion by voting for an amendment suggested by Henry Dundas, MP for Edinburgh and secretary of state for the Home Office, which backed abolition – but ‘gradual abolition’, in four years’ time, or seven, when the time was right. And even that more moderate resolution went too far for the House of ...”

“... thought of royal bodies as tireless and perfect, and believed that the royal touch had the power to exhilarate or console, if no longer to heal. Postwar commemoration turned George into a ‘communicative symbolic channel’ to the dead – what Nicolson called the ‘hierophant’ of new rites of thanksgiving and sorrow.Admittedly, Jones never quite ...”

“... this date was more attracted by black models than Géricault, for none was so concerned with the power and pathos that could be expressed by the male nude body: he was haunted by the Laocoön and the Belvedere Torso, but not at all by the ideal beauty, composure and elegance of the Apollo Belvedere (or by any Venus). Géricault was deeply concerned with ...”

“... now editor of the Scotsman, understood his talent and also knew the dangers. Francis avoided power, but he somehow had it anyway, Without, as Linklater put it, ‘lifting a finger’, he managed to subvert the sacrosanct rules of newspaper publishing. The Magazine’s reputation on the newspaper for being frivolous, self-absorbed, anarchic, using acres ...”

“... impressive, ambitious poem, to which he may have been assisted by translating Antonio Machado with Henry Gifford, pits itself against received English styles of verse. Resisting a native environment, ‘Up at La Serra’ survives a sense of having been willed into existence. Charles Tomlinson’s Collected Poems are the work of a man who has believed that by ...”

“... of the impetuous, supercharged narrative manner of Virginia Woolf, or the cumulative music of Henry James. Where syntax and the overall shaping of a sentence are concerned, Clampitt can match both these supreme artists in the way she reflects the state of an enquiring or apprehending mind by means of the fits and starts of individual phrases and ...”

“... howls, wails and therefore he can be exorcised. Melancholy is silent, and therein lies its uncanny power.’ Singer’s occultism is not something reducible to psychic phenomena, but part of a larger world view. The stories enact his belief that each individual contains in microcosm the forces and tensions of the macrocosm. No matter how small the object on ...”

“... heat death. It is peopled by post-Sawston man talking, more often than not, a debased dialect of Henry Jamespeak. If you take too deep a breath while reading Stewart, you’re likely to get a lung full of periphrases or a litotes up your nose. This effect is mostly germane to his purpose, which is to convey the feel of a dense, over-lived-in social ...”

“... Enemies, much more against Conspirators and Traytors. Francis Bacon, The History of the Reign of Henry VII One of the benefits of the contemporary fascination with the world of intelligence operations is the growing perception that this ‘missing dimension’ which lies behind so many newspaper headlines lies behind a good deal of history ...”