 | John Bartlett - 1868 - 828 pàgines
...fit so exactly that we can say they were almost made for each other. Sketches of Moral Philosophy. In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American...American play ? or looks at an American picture or statue ? Review of Seyberfs Annals of the United States ( 1820). Magnificent spectacle of human happiness.... | |
 | United States. Patent Office - 1909 - 692 pàgines
...works abroad. As late as 1820 Sydney Smith, in the Edinburgh Review, made his famous exclamation, " In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book?" If, however, there was a publication abroad, importation without the consent of the owner was forbidden... | |
 | Charles Hodge, Lyman Hotchkiss Atwater - 1856 - 784 pàgines
...the arts, for literature, or even for the statesman-like studies of politics, or political economy. In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book ?" At a later period, he says: "There appears not at this moment in America one man of any considerable... | |
 | Edward Henry Bickersteth (bp. of Exeter) - 1874 - 764 pàgines
...have effectually disposed of the query put many years ago in England by a high literary authority — "In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book ? " There are three special ways in which we may look at Longfellow, viz., as a lyric poet, as a narrative... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1875 - 890 pàgines
...him to death. Review of Seyberfs Annals of the United States (1820). 1 Compare Dryden, ante, p. 240. In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American...American play ? or looks at an American picture or statue ? Review on Seykerf s Annals of the United States (1820). Magnificent spectacle of human happiness.... | |
 | 1875 - 466 pàgines
...SULLIVAN. VOL. V. JUNE, 1875. NUMBER 10. THE WORKS AND LANGUAGE OF LONGFELLOW. PROGRESS OF AMERICAN POETRY. "In the four quarters of the globe who reads an American book ?" Half a century has passed since Sydney Smith wrote thus in the Edinburgh Review, and that period... | |
 | 1877 - 1284 pàgines
...America had not yet produced a single man of genius; and the question of a celebrated English writer : " Who reads an American book, or goes to an American play, or looks at an American picture or statue?" uttered at a more recent period, is still fresh in the memory of many of the present race of men. The... | |
 | Leartus Connor, Henry Alexander Cleland - 1881 - 598 pàgines
...the 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... | |
 | Leartus Connor, Henry Alexander Cleland - 1881 - 618 pàgines
...the 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 plav ? or looks upon an American picture or statue ? What does the world yet owe to American physicians... | |
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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? 
