 | Richard Garnett - 1899 - 752 pàgines
...under the foot . . . on the brass nails of the coffin, and the ribands of the bride (xxi. 311. 13). In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American...American play, or looks at an American picture or statue? (xxi. 313. 26). SOLON : Laws are like cobwebs : if anything small or weak falls into them, they hold... | |
 | Frederic May Holland - 1899 - 280 pàgines
...Americans " have done absolutely nothing for the sciences,, for art, for literature." He went on to ask, " In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book ? " His question was answered that same year by the publication in London of Irving's Rip Van Winkle... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1900 - 400 pàgines
...works, 1848-1850. Most of Irving's writings were published simultaneousiy in America and England. 1 "In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American...American play ? or looks at an American picture or American influences. His parents were natives of Great Britain; he owed most of his culture to prolonged... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1900 - 274 pàgines
...far as we know, there is no such parallel to be produced from the whole annals of this self-adulating race. In the four quarters of the globe who reads an American book? or goes to see an American play? or looks at an American picture or statue? What does the world yet owe to American... | |
 | Elbridge Streeter Brooks - 1900 - 446 pàgines
...done "absolutely nothing for the sciences, for art, for literature," and added the scornful query, " In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book ? " -'-'.'--'/ revolutions, like armies on the march, advance with Pioneers in front . , . Such was... | |
 | Henry Robert Murray Landis - 1901 - 32 pàgines
...the University of Pennsylvania, assumed the editorial chair, and, stung by Sydney Smith's gibe — " In the four quarters of the globe who reads an American book ? what does the world yet owe to an American physician or surgeon?" — he adopted it as the motto... | |
 | 1901 - 558 pàgines
...amusement and disrelish as we have read it. It is the article in which he asks the nettling question, In the four quarters of the globe who reads an American book? I have long felt, by the way, that Sydney Smith was extremely lucky in the date of his article, for... | |
 | 1903 - 1186 pàgines
...pounds for the privilege of putting him to death. Eeview ofSeybert's Annals of the United Statts, 1820. In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American...American play, or looks at an American picture or statue ? ibid. Magnificent spectacle of human happiness. America. Edinburyh Eeview, July, 1824. In the midst... | |
 | James Gregory Mumford - 1903 - 516 pàgines
...arts, for literature, or even for the statesmanlike studies of politics and political economy. ... In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book? or goes to an American play? or looks upon an American picture or statue? What does the world yet owe to American physicians or surgeons?... | |
 | John N. Crawford - 1903 - 432 pàgines
...some very hard, and, for the most part, well-deserved criticism. In 1818 he inquired in the Review: " In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book or goes to an American play ? " A few years later Washington Irving and Fenimore Cooper made the gibe stingless. He never forgave... | |
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In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book? or goes to an American play? or looks at an American picture or statue? 
