“... died in 1892, and she outlived him by forty years. Lady Gregory made herself useful to Yeats, as Roy Foster shows in his biography of the poet, because of her interest in folklore and her knowledge of the area around Coole and its people. ‘John Synge, I and Augusta Gregory, thought/All that we did, all that we said or sang/Must come from contact with the ...”

“... emerged, clarified by scholars in other fields, notably the great French historian Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, whose Times of Feast, Times of Famine was published in 1971. A decade later, Robert Rotberg and Theodore Rabb published a trailblazing volume of essays, Climate and History, their mission to explore ‘an exciting frontier for reading and ...”

“... that Conservative freedom worked wonders for their working-class support, at least among the strong bargainers who could cash in on it. Labour’s constituency, by contrast, seemed by 1958 to be ‘growing squashier and squashier and less and less solid, so that one fine day a sudden landslide could take a whole section of it off us.’ Crossman can ...”

“... according to the estate agent who rented it to him, had been occupied by the England manager Roy Hodgson during Euro 2012.The Monastery came out in Russia in 2014, to critical acclaim, sales and prizes, in the fervent spring when the Maidan revolution brought down Yanukovych, Russia seized Crimea, and Donbass, with Russian help, rose against Kiev. In ...”

“... just and fair relations between men in general, and especially between the rich and the poor, the strong and the weak. This is a modest aim, which leaves the rich to exploit the poor [and] the strong to oppress the weak. The Robin Hood myth may be copied over into political discourse, but the translation won’t go in the ...”

“... generally do not commit sodomy on youths (for they prefer to penetrate their wives), but have a strong desire to fellate them.’ (It is even possible in this passage that fellate is used in the sense of fellate.) This sentence is offered as evidence of Wilde’s sexual character, but no evidence is offered for the evidence. Is bisexuality a stable ...”

“... that it is not, as usually thought, influenced by Scott’s Heart of Midlothian and Rob Roy, but drew on Cottin’s 1806 bestseller Elisabeth, or The Exiles of Siberia – barely survives the modern reader’s first contact with Cottin’s work. Stilted, artificial and relentlessly moralistic, Elisabeth resembles a medieval martyr ...”

“... in the show that May. I am interested in the fact that so many of the pictures’ titles give strong clues to landscape facts – ‘a chunk of vista ripped from actuality and dumped into a room’, as Hess put it (characteristically) at the time. It’s also interesting that the two reviewers most worth reading in 1959 weren’t much inclined to take the ...”

“... Le Débat, which demolished Lévy’s blunders and enormities in two blistering pieces, one by Le Roy Ladurie and the other by Nora (‘un idéologue bien de chez nous’), rebuffing attempts to discredit the Republic in the name of the Jewish question. The next occasion for dispute was, predictably enough, posed by the Muslim question, with the first affair ...”

“... Kyd was under arrest, ‘suspected for that libel that concerned the State’. The inference is strong that he was arrested further to the information provided by Baines and Drury – information that was certainly false, and which they knew to be false, but which swiftly served the purpose of incriminating Kyd’s former room-mate, Marlowe. Drury then went ...”

“... this picture is strangely lopsided. A movement that counted revolutionaries like Serge or Trotsky, Roy or Mariategui, Sneevliet or Sorge, not for romantics? For that matter what of Mao, for better or worse a somewhat larger figure in the history of Communism than any of the loyal European functionaries or militants to whom we are introduced ...”

“... Seidel, an early mayor, had higher ambitions. ‘We wanted a chance for every human being to be strong and live a life of happiness,’ he said. ‘And we wanted everything that was necessary to give them that: playgrounds, parks, lakes, beaches, clean creeks and rivers, swimming and wading pools, social centres, reading rooms, clean fun, music, dance, song ...”

“... to finish the papers that will be published as Mourning Becomes the Law (1996), she doesn’t feel strong enough to start another major book. A friend suggests she try writing more personally, the cancer spreads, her lover abandons her; but there is still ‘the work’, ‘the constant carnival’, ‘the revel of ideas and risk’. Love’s Work, the tiny ...”

“... who had put him in power crushed. A new republic was founded, with institutions – above all, a strong presidential executive – designed to give the country political stability. High-tech modernisation of the economy proceeded apace, with major infrastructural programmes and rapidly rising living standards in the towns, as growth accelerated. Large-scale ...”

“... Interior design led to a growing circle of acquaintance, including with the Australian painter Roy de Maistre. In his memoir, Patrick White remembers de Maistre as ‘a snob’ who ‘enjoyed a princess’:In Eccleston Street, in the de Maistre studio-salon, I met other more or less important people, among them Henry Moore, Graham Sutherland, Francis ...”