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“... gap of a year in such letters from his father as have come their present editor’s way. Professor Gilbert conjectures that this loss, and a similar and later loss to which we shall come, may be attributable to ‘the confusion of moving’ when John changed schools. It is much more probable that the relevant letters have been suppressed or destroyed because ...”

“... to see this strange fad as part of the broader drive to transform women into living statues. Sir Gilbert Elliot, describing Campbell arriving at a ball with pad in place, believed the ‘original idea … to have been an imitation of the drapery of statues and pictures, which fastens the dress immediately below the bosom, and leaves no ...”

“... render her without a certain insubstantiality. ‘She is all Nature, and yet all Art,’ said Sir Gilbert Elliot, who judged Emma ‘the most extraordinary compound’. To recreate a paradox without creating an impression of mere inconsistency and implausibility is taxing work for biographer and novelist ...”

“... literary-critical legacy of the ‘Cambridge Ritualists’ (Jane Ellen Harrison, F.M. Cornford, Gilbert Murray and A.B. Cook, turn-of-the-century classicists who had written on the connection between Greek myth and ritual and the origins of drama), and had then read a good deal of Frazer, who influenced the Ritualists greatly. The project held many ...”

“... has been promoted as the likely author. All that seems clear is that it was someone who admired Gilbert Elliot of Minto and was annoyed by Robert Dundas of Arniston, second Lord President. Quite a lot of Scottish writers on politics might fulfil these requirements. The militia was attractive to upper-class society because of the opportunities it gave ...”

“... interesting person in her world (apart from those snakes in the grass: Wickham, the Crawfords, Mr Elliot and so on). There is no duty to imagine that a supporting player has ‘an intense consciousness’; Austen is prepared to flatten out a minor character absolutely. After the wonderfully satirical opening of Persuasion, the description of Sir Walter ...”

“... second case, he would no doubt expect us to pick up ‘missy’ and perhaps ‘whimsy’. Stuart Gilbert, making the same comparison with Carroll, writes of ‘foliations’ in Joyce, and of words having ‘ramified’. But Carroll has a taste for sheer absurdity, the collapse or travesty of plausible meaning, whereas Joyce, as far as I can tell, wants only ...”

“... books. Is Satan good or bad? Why exactly did Iago hatch his plot, or Isabel Archer decide to marry Gilbert Osmond? Such speculations need the exercise of just as much intelligence as does the higher jargon, and for most people they are more fun to make. Dr Spacks ends her preface with the comment that although the ambiguities and perplexities associated with ...”