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Qui inter hæc nutriuntur non magis sapere possunt, quam
 bene olere qui in culinâ habitant. [Those so trained (in schools of rhetoric) can no more acquire good taste than those who...

According to one mode of regarding those two classes of mental action, which are called reason and imagination, the former may be considered as mind contemplating the relations borne by...

A moody child and wildly wise Pursued the game with joyful eyes, Which chose, like meteors, their way, And rived the dark with private ray: They overleapt the horizon’s edge, Searched with Apollo’s privilege; Through man,...

Charles Dickens, in a note now lying before me, alluding to an examination I once made of the mechanism of “Barnaby Rudge,” says—“By the way, are you aware that Godwin...

America does not repel the past or what it has produced under its forms or amid other politics or the idea of castes or the old religions . . ....

Talk given at the University of Washington, 1948 Let’s begin by quoting Mr. Auden—(from The Orators): “Need I remind you that you’re no longer living in ancient Egypt?” I’m going to say...

You can start anywhere—Jazz as Communication—since it’s a circle, and you yourself are the dot in the middle. You, me. For example, I’ll start with the Blues. I’m not a...