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“... of the Beagle voyage. A retrenching Whig ministry was persuaded to put up £1000, allowing the young Darwin to dispense his own patronage. He parcelled out his Beagle specimens to white-collar naturalists: to zoological craftsmen like John Gould (who reciprocated by christening a new rhea darwinii after him). Darwin modelled his Zoology on Humboldt’s ...”

“... slept with. I know for you this wasn’t an issue. Madness made a white man of you disastrously young. You stayed alive just long enough to revive from Scottish models and kings such medieval things as documentary verse-television and writing in Scots for the brain. In that, you set the great precedent for every vernacular and variant the world-reach of ...”

“... There seem to have been several Oliver Norths. There was Oliver North the Patriot, whom Robert McFarlane would describe as ‘an imaginative, aggressive, committed young officer’, Ronald Reagan’s personally approved ‘hero’. There was Oliver North the Man of God, the born-again Christian from the charismatic Episcopal Church of the Apostles who believed that the Lord had healed his wounds and who – in the words of one former associate at the National Security Council – ‘thought he was doing God’s work at the NSC ...”

“... guides, danger and discomfort are paramount. Borneo, written by the imprint’s publisher, Robert Pelton Young, describes itself as one of ‘a series of guides on remote regions for adventurers by adventurers’ and begins with a taste of what may lie in store for the user: I am squatting in a small clearing at ...”

“... persona of his later years – the early nights, the carpet slippers, and so on. Old when young and young when old: the ageing of our most-wrinkled-ever poet has always seemed a somewhat mysterious process.Most people who knew Auden when he really was ‘the youngest person present’ were struck by his air of being ...”

“... When​ I was young it was possible to feel you’d made it as a writer simply by getting a phone call from one of four editors. When it came to ambition, very few of the writers I knew really gave a fuck about being in Who’s Who, being named an honorary fellow or having one of the queen’s gongs, or a million quid advance ...”

“... far from being the preferred thoughts of their white rulers. Africans, particularly those who are young and underemployed or unemployed, are alienated from the state, from their more moderate leaders, and from any institutional constraints on the immediate attaining of freedom. Although they may now only be climbing the Potemkin steps, after a year of ...”

“... was subsequently driven off the centre pages by Kristallnacht and the Jewish pogroms in Germany. Robert Kee’s book has its origins in his commemorative TV documentary and the book by Robert Shepherd, producer of Channel 4’s A Week in Politics, reads like the script of another documentary. ...”

“... In publishing his compendious work Metahistory in 1973, Hayden White gave currency both to a term and to a programme. His subtitle, ‘The Historical Imagination in 19th-Century Europe’, indicated the broad area of his investigations, but gave little sense of the radical originality of this programme, which was quite simply the re-examination of historiography in its written form ...”

“... the rocks half-buried That once were so forceful, Where the stream entered, then faltered, Like a young man approaching decisions Of what he could do without too much trouble After an athletic career that didn’t go far. Too bad Amy was so fat. Yet her words always calmed him, Made him as introspective As was possible then, or ever. As the evening was ...”

“... bushel, come, O come Now to my achy-breaky heart, the one Still unattacked, unmurmuring, forever ...”

“... and bathyscaphing I’ve lots of piercings I love liquefied oxygen My parents think I’m too young to be a field marshal I love chatrooms Want to chat with me? Don’t you think logarithms are really depraved? I love chatting with other teenage girls I love power tools and petrol-driven saws I’ve just been skinny-dipping Hi I love chatrooms My ...”

“... richer, more intimate affair than, say, proportional representation; but the post-colonial critic Robert Young has recently reminded us of just what racist, imperial baggage this apparently suggestive notion carries with it from the anthropologising 19th century. Jacqueline Rose has her own suspicions of that brand of literary politics for which culture ...”

“... aa Yon nichtingales o yourn Still soun Lik they sounded Then When we set oot An sat oot, Twa young men. Daith taks the lot, They sey, But, ach, Thae sangs He’s nivver Gonnae get. Mick Imlah Than Orpheus befor Pluto sat doune, And in his handis quhyte his harp can ta …            Henryson, ‘Orpheus and Eurydice’ The day you ...”

“... where the streets end, Ducks gliding, fish nipping the surface. The water moils. Everyone was once Young and lonely as well, when hairstyles Were different. Too many miles on him, The woman remarks, in the soda fountain Off the short deck above water, insects Spinning the hanging bulbs. He’s not That old, says her friend. My point exactly, She ...”