“... details of her father’s conflicts over land may, as so often in families, have been largely unknown to his children. Her recorded version was a colourful, moving and, on the whole, honest account of what it was like to be an Indian woman in Guatemala during the years of struggle and repression. Yet producing such a book in such a way, and in a great ...”

“... visions. Relishing the babble of life, Eudora Welty neither loses her ‘abiding respect for the unknown’ nor relaxes her attentiveness to the obsessions and hallucinations of her eccentric or dim-witted or half-mad characters. They are often more alive, possess more ‘self’, than their safe-and-sane detractors and patronisers, although she knows that ...”

“... protecting all citizens to the purpose of protecting the government: domestic spies of all kinds, unknown and unknowable security services subject to no control but that of their masters, ministers and judges contemptuous of the people they govern. It may be noted that the law of Britain, as approved by the present Attorney-General, would appear to forbid ...”

“... French are both more sentimental and more determined to win than the English, When, in 1956, an unknown and poorly-rated cyclist called Walkowiak took the lead (le maillot jaune) in the Tour de France, he was reported as saying that if he won, he would see to it that his old father need never work again. It was with warm emotion at this display of filial ...”

“... an invisible proprietor’. These glimpses and moments have some importance to the poet that is unknown to the reader: it appears to prompt the reflections of the second two quatrains.             What if you can’t own This one either? For it seems that all Moments are like this: thin, unsatisfactory As gruel, worn away more each time you ...”

“... unacquainted with the function of a public house, a law court or an art gallery ... Roman London, unknown and unseen, mapped and illustrated but not described, can only be interpreted from what is known of Roman society in other Roman towns. All this is possible because, mutatis mutandis, Roman towns, like Roman army camps or even Medieval Cistercian ...”

“... when he first formulated his own historicist doctrines in the early 1770s. Vico remained virtually unknown outside Italy, despite a handful of isolated references elsewhere, until Jules Michelet made him famous in 1824-5. His influence in England was negligible or non-existent – on this point I am inclined to agree with René Wellek (cited in evidence ...”

“... entirely absent. The conjunction of the two was extraordinary, and, of course, remains largely unknown, and the gaps left by reportage could only be supplied by the inductive powers of the novelist. Yet any examination of the implications of human wishes and their effect upon human – all too human – behaviour is welcome, and, as has been ...”

“... because the public was more interested in ‘an heiress’ and ‘a celebrity’ than in ‘two unknown radicals called Harris’. ‘The government had to prosecute me.’ she says, now very much the sadder and the wiser woman, ‘in order to prove that there was equal justice for all in America.’ On the other hand, it is likely that had she, at any ...”

“... wrote, ‘brocaded with a certain number of gestures – mysterious signs which correspond to some unknown, fabulous and obscure reality which we here in the Occident have completely repressed.’ How appropriate it is that, fifty years later in Provence, Yoshi Oida, a trim, hieroglyphic Japanese actor, should shape clear-cut gestures through the night ...”

“... all that we know. The impossible is that gritstone prow my arms will never haul my body over, the unknown is the foothold waiting round the blind arete in heavy cloud, space is the void between your heels and the backs of pigeons skimming the larchtops a hundred feet below, effort is the squirming of muscles round your nose and upper lip as you strive to get ...”

“... partly because it is so bad. It is a history of Roman emperors, from Hadrian to Diocletian, by an unknown author (or authors, with false names), compiled in the fourth century, perhaps. In 1980 Ronald Syme in the London Review denounced it as a hoax. There is a Penguin translation by Anthony Birley, called Lives of the Later Caesars. To dip into it is rather ...”

“... them to use for his own benefit. In this process, which is essentially that of rationalising the unknown, the immeasurable and the inexplicable, the forces that are being tamed stand in imminent danger of disappearing altogether.’ Why ‘huge’ here? one asks one-self. Crusoe’s island is quite a small one. What are the ‘inhuman forces’ that Crusoe ...”

“... at the end of the Twenties. What Bakhtin – or Bakhtin/Medvedev, because the book was to some unknown degree collaborative – thought was wrong in Formalism was its insistence that literary language was somehow peculiar to literature. Formalists went in joyful pursuit of what Jakobson, I think, was the first to call ‘literariness’, or that peculiar ...”

“... grief and undermined her confidence in her attractiveness, and she now turned to her ‘secret and unknown idol’ for emotional sustenance and for relief from a husband who, according to Pückler, was often ‘neither alive nor dead’. Pückler prided himself on being a conjurer of fantasies of romance and love, and he had an impressive collection of letters ...”