“... came to me to write it in both, with one character in the present being ‘I’, and his childhood self being ‘he’. At the book’s halfway point, it would become clear to the reader that the he and the I were one and the same; or rather, two and the same. After watching the Yeates case unfold, I decided to return to the sidelined book. Now it would be a ...”

“... consensus (as so often, the right portrayed itself as a victim – in this instance of self-righteous communists, or what Meloni today calls the ‘anti-Italian left’). Fini was still prone to making occasional statements such as ‘Berlusconi will have to work hard to prove that he can make history like Mussolini.’ But he stopped addressing ...”

“... absorbed into the kingdom of Westphalia, which was ruled by Jérôme Bonaparte, the emperor’s self-indulgent youngest brother, and was intended to become a constitutional model for other German states under French rule. The threat of Frenchification during the Napoleonic era was part of what motivated the brothers in their work as collectors of German ...”

“... this time, but I must get to know the British in order to fight them.’ This sounds suspiciously self-mythologising but it is in keeping with her character. Her world was always divided between friend and foe.The stint at Badminton helped her, as intended, to get a place at Oxford, but her university career was short-lived. In the autumn of 1939, she too got ...”

“... was an explicitly populist political project, which sought to restore freedom and self-government to the people. Rothbard’s rhetoric contained strong hints of the violence that would be necessary to bring this about, violence which (paradoxically) would sometimes have to be wielded by centralised political powers against the institutions of ...”

“... that reality is not a choice one might make, not a thing to opt in and out of as suits your self-interest, but a bulwark against propaganda and censorship, the essential currency of a free press. In Liberty and the News, he anatomised a problem that is even more evident a hundred years later. Could ‘government by consent … survive’, he ...”

“... the admission) projections or extensions, for the most part bitterly ironic, of the poet’s own self as he understands it. De Araujo’s versions from Carlos Drummond are precisely on a par with Felstiner’s from Neruda. Her name may mislead: she is entirely North American by birth and nurture, as her own idiom would leave us in no doubt. Looky now, love ...”

“... inception more than three centuries ago.’ But the joke is right, since a proverb is often slyly self-referential. ‘Brevity is the soul of wit’ gets not only authority but comedy from its own brevity. Proverbs are inherently convinced, and therefore convince, that ‘Small is beautiful’ (1973). There are many proverbs that praise the little (‘The ...”

“... media?’ Borrow, it seems to me, never quite found that middle way. He tried very hard to fit his self-expression to the strict party-line of his religious superiors, but then he found he had disciplined himself so firmly that he was no longer free to write from the heart. The letters were as close as he could get to the party-line and he obviously did not ...”

“... from those imperfections in living organisms which betray a history of descent. The self-styled ‘scientific creationists’ have no leg to stand on and are simply playing politics. Natural selection must not be construed as a perfecting principle in any strong sense of perfection. Neo-Darwinists who look to adaptive utility as the key to every ...”

“... than his ability to deceive others, and it looks as if he, or some part of him, did genuinely and self-deceivingly believe that he was mustering, in Nicholas Mosley’s words, ‘a fascist movement dedicated to peace’ and ‘an army that would march to prevent future wars’. He even managed to persuade himself that had it not been for this ...”

“... its concomitant scorn for ‘thimble bellies’), Sayre recalls it as celebratory: ‘of the self and of friendship’. She quotes A.J. Liebling: ‘People whose youth did not coincide with the Twenties never had our reverence for strong drink ... It was the only period during which a fellow could be smug and slopped concurrently.’ As long as he ...”

“... they go back to Gault House, they discover that Clarence has gone mad, the result of jealousy, gay self-hatred and shellshock sustained during the war. He has tied Scylla to a statue of Picus which he had made some time before, and has been shooting at her with crude arrows, intending to kill first her and then himself. They arrive just in time to save ...”

“... Arthur Crook and John Gross) and indeed held the whole London literary world in contempt as a self-serving clique. He became a lecturer in 1936, already over forty, and a full lecturer at 52. MacKillop deals with this scandalously slow ascent in great detail and with a measure of impartiality, reporting Lord Annan’s opinion that Leavis’s treatment ...”

“... from the light into the darkness, and then, plunging into the catastrophe of his essential self, he passed into the final anagnorisis where he was forced to contemplate the fullness of the truth about his life and work. These two new books on Pound will make it impossible to approach his work on such terms any longer. Neither Casillo nor Carpenter take ...”