 | Henry Leonard Stillson - 1897 - 994 pàgines
...alluding to our alleged slow intellectual development, as a nation, sneeringly remarked : — " 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 ? Who drinks out of American glasses, or ea's from American plates,... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1898 - 104 pàgines
...review of Seybert's Annals of the United States, published in the Edinburgh Review in 1820, asked, " In the four quarters of the globe who reads an American...American play ? or looks at an American picture or statue ? " inquisitive after her painters and statuaries. Was it that they expected too much from the mere... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1899 - 432 pàgines
...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...an American picture or statue ? What does the world yet owe to American physicians or surgeons ? What new substances have their chemists discovered, or... | |
 | Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl - 1899 - 554 pàgines
...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...an American picture or statue ? What does the world yet owe to American physicians or surgeons ? What new substances have their chemists discovered, or... | |
 | John Bach McMaster - 1900 - 618 pàgines
...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...an American picture or statue? What does the world yet owe to American physicians or surgeons? What new substances have their chemists discovered, or... | |
 | John Bach McMaster - 1900 - 614 pàgines
...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...an American picture or statue? What does the world yet owe to American physicians or surgeons? What new substances have their chemists discovered, or... | |
 | John Bach McMaster - 1900 - 618 pàgines
...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...an American picture or statue? What does the world yet owe to American physicians or surgeons? What new substances have their chemists discovered, or... | |
 | Edward Robins - 1900 - 540 pàgines
...encouragement in this country. There is no longer a sting in the sneering question of Sydney Smith: " In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American...American play, or looks at an American picture or statue ? " The American playwright and the American player are already powers in the world of art. Abbot,... | |
 | 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
...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... | |
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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... 
