“... the intellectual withdraws from the social (‘known to few’) to make possible his own work (‘unknown to fewer’); and ‘withdrawal’ itself, in more senses than one, may be the source and condition of that melancholia which gave Burton his great Anatomy while destroying the man himself.The dedicatory inscription of Q (as the 1609 Quarto edition of the ...”

“... the pubs on Great Portland Street. Broadcasting House was a maze of stairwells, long corridors and unknown powers, a world within worlds that couldn’t quite decide whether it was a branch of the civil service or a theatrical den. Many of the men who worked there were getting their own way in the national interest, and the best (or worst) of them combined the ...”

“... coat emerged to remind us of the fact. The phrase ‘You’ll have hud yer tea, then?’ is not unknown in Scotland’s eastern quarter. I didn’t hear it much as a child, being from the other coast, but I knew of it and have always thought it a strange anomaly: the bad-tempered reverse of the nation’s inborn hospitality. This hostess, though, was from ...”

“... the Common Market. A pioneering mood of national confidence, a willingness to strike out into the unknown, is lacking in England as much as it is in Scotland. The Trojan horse will be staying put. Europe’s luck is out on that front, too. As for the immediate future, the Berlin-Brussels axis can probably continue to manage the crisis on Germany’s terms as ...”

“... of pages of rough drafts, fair copies and proofs’ as well as a huge, previously unknown verse play, La Seine, of seven thousand lines with speaking parts for over five hundred characters, and Les Noces, another unstageable drama in three parts extending to over twenty thousand lines. Roussel’s arduous and (from an economic point of ...”

“... thwarted by an unequal, stratified society to reconcile themselves to a life of menial labour in unknown lands, and an old age spent in religious stupor. Educated, but with no prospects, many young men like Prachanda must have been more than ready to embrace radical ideas about the ways that an entrenched urban elite could be challenged and even overthrown ...”

“... married friends to come by, with the idea that they would arrive to find Delmore in bed and an unknown woman slipping into the bathroom. But they couldn’t find anybody to play the other woman, so Gertrude herself took on the role. ‘This was one time when he wasn’t with another woman,’ she told Barrett.Later, Schwartz admitted that the ‘lava flow ...”

“... taken off, but when Graham stepped down as head of Y Combinator he chose, to general shock, the unknown 28-year-old as his successor. Altman was already unfathomably rich, thanks to a venture capital fund he had set up, Hydrazine, which invested in the star graduates from the start-up incubator. To take just one example, he owned 2 per cent of the payment ...”

“... his statue here, when neither Nietzsche nor D’Annunzio have one), this will be a monument to the unknown tyrant. In fact, the British know less about Cuba now than they did about Argentina before the Falklands fiasco. Then all they knew was that that country, where the gaucho roams free on the pampas, invented the tango and was ruled by a fake blonde actress ...”

“... as well as the rich a stake in the regime, being ancient and venerable, could hardly have been unknown to Marx. For him to declare such an arrangement impossible in principle under modern conditions evinces a confidence in his own powers of foresight that was already unjustifiable at the time. To the extent that the Manifesto successfully conveyed its ...”

“... maker in Paris, as he waded through the contents of a letter from Harar penned by an unknown expatriate in February 1881, requesting ‘a full report on the best manufacturers, in France and elsewhere, of mathematical, optical, astronomical, electrical, meteorological, pneumatic, mechanical, hydraulic and mineralogical instruments’. Batin would ...”

“... Nationalists in the Scottish Labour Party, and also among the Liberal Democrats, while an unknown number of small or tiny-n nationalists support the SNP less for its ideology than because it registers the most effective protest against Them. In existing circumstances They are of course bound to be mainly English, or at least perceived as held in ...”

“... the great second phase of writing, Mansfield Park, Emma and Persuasion. There is still a good deal unknown about the biography of Jane Austen and the dating of the earlier novels, which went through a number of rewritings. But clearly a pause of ten, even fifteen years divided the two phases. It was possibly marked by the sense of different kinds of ...”

“... introduced to them. It is in this context that two Americans disembark at Dover, ‘completely unknown . . . amid the completely unknowing’. There are of course other suggestions lurking there, too: of stealth, on the visitors’ part; of unpreparedness, on the part of the home team. You can know, in the sense of being acquainted with, certain social ...”

“... but dim’, ‘highly intelligent’, ‘quasi-cyclist’, ‘cheerful’, ‘unknown quantity’, ‘slick’, ‘interesting’, ‘directionless’ and ‘PR-friendly’. Luntz, whose advice to the Conservatives on the basis of this meeting was upbeat but cryptic (‘Again, focus on reaching voters visually and verbally,’ he ...”