...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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?...