“... steep Beyond the limits which my feet had trod, Was like a guide into eternity, At least to things unknown and without bound. That brings before us what roads once were, and are no longer: as so often with Wordsworth, the hiatus between past and present seems complete, the nature of lakes and mountains having changed more subtly but as completely as that of ...”

“... devised by Burton himself shortly before his death, can be translated (I think): ‘Known to few, unknown to fewer, here lies Democritus Junior, to whom Melancholy gave life and death.’ The words are designedly of Delphic obscurity. They mean, we guess, that no one really knew Burton despite his fame, and that the black humour from which he made a ...”

“... precisely this kind of collapse of the orderer’s boundaries, beyond which lurk the freakish and unknown, immune to our formulations of their being. Or as the Loch Ness monster puts it in a famous earlier poem, ‘Sssnnnwhuffffll?’ George Szirtes is a less frolicsome poet than Morgan, and his new volume, Metro, has him dealing with particularly grim ...”

“... with New Right doctrine even before the change of government. John Major himself is, of course, an unknown quantity, but the opposition parties have succumbed to wishful thinking in assuming that he will be a carbon copy of his old boss. Thatcherism was always an aberration from the norm of advanced capitalism. Major may not know how to get back to the ...”

“... taken after booking, one officer joked with his victim about the ‘hardball’ they had played. Unknown to the police, 81 seconds of their beating of King had been videotaped by a resident in a nearby apartment, George Holliday. What Holliday did with the tape was momentous. He did not hand it over to the Police. Had he done so, there would have been an ...”

“... of the Durham miners, was able to claim, not inaccurately: Poverty has been abolished. Hunger is unknown. The sick are tended. The old folks are cherished, our children are growing up in a land of opportunity. Further, this miracle (for so it seemed to those who, a little older than Peter Hennessy, had grown up in the Thirties) had been accomplished with a ...”

“... art of acting can achieve. I’d rate it higher than Being There’), he also discusses the other unknown Sellers films like Ghost in the Noonday Sun and the Polanski-produced A Day at the Beach (a print of which has recently come to light). As in Stage People, where he wrote poignantly about the missing footage from Billy Wilder’s masterpiece The Private ...”

“... a writer, where it is easy – as with many Modernist gestures and assumptions – to mistake the unknown for the universal. Thus to follow Strindberg’s life and writing before, say, 1885 will be to most readers who know only the work of the next period, typically The Father and Miss Julie, surprising. He was 34 when he left Stockholm for France, in ...”

“... Hitler drawings. You will find some of his best work in Billy F. Price’s Adolf Hitler, the Unknown Artist (Houston, 1984). He was also writing Hitler mottoes, postcards and poems. Many of these you may find in the immense compilation, E. Jäckel and A. Kuhn (eds), Hitler – Sämtliche Aufzeichnungen 1905-1924 (Stuttgart, 1980). ‘He who believes in ...”

“... another: ‘The music spread all over the dark boat, like a heavenly injunction whose import was unknown, like an order from God whose meaning was inscrutable.’ The magic of French sound has gone. Here is another passage which goes better into English: ‘Some birds are shrieking at the tops of their voices, crazy birds. As they sharpen their beaks on ...”

“... the bread-knife and kills her, making it look, however, as if the murder had been committed by an unknown intruder. The Garda question her, but soon lose interest. Her life, to outward appearance, goes on much as before. People don’t do things like that? Oscar Wilde, for one, thought that they did: Some do the deed with many tears, And some without a ...”

“... action; Chase a 455 Webley; Burroughs loves guns). Both died simultaneously by rifle-fire from an unknown third party. Hall, it is reported, wrote under the pen-name and in the person of Kim Carsons, the famous Western shootist, and subsequently the central character of The Place of Dead Roads. From this initial point, the narrative spills out like some nasty ...”

“... a scandal that a body of writing of this substance, composed on this island, should be so largely unknown to readers of strict literary interests. A general impression from Matthew Arnold will not do. The major verse of Dafydd ap Gwilym and the romances of Pedair Cainc y Mabinogi (in English the Mabinogion) are evident classics in the writing of this ...”

“... barely a few per cent of the whole mass of work he did; the rest remained unpublished, and unknown even to his students. Wilson mentions that Rutherford’s failures sometimes drove him to black despair. His 1909 model of the atom failed to explain why the electrons do not fall into the nucleus to neutralise its charge. Niels Bohr took up this ...”

“... we now experience, that the character and pace of change in attitude or practice are simply unknown to us, and remain so forever? As of the present, the historical sociologist can be more confident about the existence of brother-sister marriage in Roman Egypt than he can about possible changes in the parenting practices of whole populations as recently ...”