...life of America to a higher and nobler plane. He began to answer Sydner Smith's cynical question: " In the four quarters of the globe who reads an American book ? " and led the way in rescuing American literature from the sluggish and torpid stream in which it...

...thcms-elvcs over the world from our little island in the course of the last thirty years, and blest иг delighted mankind by their works, inventions, or examples?...of the globe, who reads an American book? or goes toan American play? or looks at an American picture or statue? What does the world yet owe to American...

...life of America to a higher and nobler plane. He began to answer Sydney Smith's cynical question " In the four quarters of the globe who reads an American book? " and led the way in rescuing American literature from the sluggish and torpid stream in which it had...

...life of America to a higher and nobler plane. He began to answer Sydney Smith's cynical question " In the four quarters of the globe who reads an American book? " and led the way in rescuing American literature from the sluggish and torpid stream in which it had...

...system.' P. 161. Maurice. — This is better than Sydney Smith's attitude expressed in the question, ' Who reads an American book, or goes to an American play, or looks at an American picture or statue ? ' P. 162. Blackie. — ' Reading is seeing by proxy — is learning indirectly through another man's...

...his taunts were none the less galling because they were true: Who, in the four quarters of the globe, reads an American book, or goes to an American play, or looks at an American painting or statue ? What does the world owe to American physicians or surgeons ? What new substances...

...young country had not as yet made much progress. A clever British writer 1823] 235 asked sneeringly, " In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book ? " Three Americans were beginning to write books that were worth reading. These were William Cullen...

...names of Chaucer, Spenser, Shakspeare, and Milton. Yes ; although Sidney Smith's taunting question, " In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book ?" may now be more satisfactorily answered than when it was first propounded ; although we can produce...

...be demanded from the class in return. In the Edinburgh Review for January, 1820, Sydney Smith wrote, "In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American...American play? or looks at an American picture or statue? " In the August number of the same periodical for that year, we read, "The courteous and ingenious...

...tirade in the Edinburgh Review with the famous passage : " Who, in the four quarters of the globe, reads an American book ? or goes to an American play ? or looks at an American painting or statue ? . . . What new substances have their chemists discovered ? . . . Who drinks out...