 | Anna Lydia Ward - 1889 - 724 lapas
...Freedom, Government, Great Britain, Liberty, Newspapers, Patriotism, Philistinism, Public Opinion. 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 ? 122 Sydney Smith: Review on... | |
 | Frederic May Holland - 1891 - 436 lapas
...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 ? " Twenty years, from the time when these words were written, sufficed to bring forward Emerson, Channing,... | |
 | William S. Walsh - 1892 - 1116 lapas
...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 an American play? or looks at an American picture or statue? What does the world yet owe... | |
 | 1898 - 122 lapas
...evident in all departments. In the ' ' Edinburgh Review " of 1 820, Sydney Smith asked the question : "In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book ? ' ' America smarted under the question which she could not answer, for at that day there was no book... | |
 | 1896 - 1224 lapas
...An' risen up Earth's Greatest Nation. /. LOWELL — The Biglow Papers. Second Series. No. 7. St. 21. lowers, and they By noon most cunningly did steal away, And w ? or goes to an American play? or looks at an American picture or statue? g. SYDNEY SMITH— Works.... | |
 | 1897 - 40 lapas
...little more is called for. "GUIDE TO AMERICAN HISTORY." — Seventy years ago Sidney Smith wrote : "In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book, or goes to an American play, or looks at one American picture or statue ? " Now, the aspect has all... | |
 | Henry Leonard Stillson - 1897 - 994 lapas
...in 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... | |
 | Charlotte Brewster Jordan - 1897 - 208 lapas
...forgive, divine." 21. "With all thy faults, I love thee still." 22. "What will Mrs. Grundy say? " 23. " 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 ? " 24. " Let every man mind... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1898 - 104 lapas
...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 book ? or goes to an American play ? or looks at an American picture or statue ? " inquisitive after her... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1899 - 432 lapas
...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 an American play, or looks at an American picture or statue ? What does the world yet owe... | |
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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... 
