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 | American Jewish Historical Society - 1998 - Počet stránok 486
...decades of American cultural dependence on Great Britain. Sydney Smith's famous taunt in 1820, "In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book? or goes to an 423 American play? or looks at an American picture . . . ?" evoked small response, for in truth even... | |
 | Laurie E. Rozakis - 1999 - Počet stránok 468
...Irving did to put America on the international literary map. Always a Bridesmaid, Never a Bride "In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American...play, or looks at an American picture or statue?" — Washington Irving In 1820, the British writer Sydney Smith taunted Americans with this vicious... | |
 | Donald Rutherford - 1999 - Počet stránok 512
...produced from the whole annals of this self-adulating race. In the four quarters of the globe, who read an American book? or goes to an American play? or...an American picture or statue? What does the world yet owe to American physicians or surgeons? What new substances have their chemists discovered? or... | |
 | Robert Blair St. George, Houston A. Baker, Jr., Roger D. Abrahams, Tamar Katriel, Peter Stallybrass, Daniel Traister, Roberta E. Pearson - 1999 - Počet stránok 333
...mean. It is all imported." In January 1820, in the same journal, Smith continued in this vein: "In the four quarters of the globe. Who reads an American book? Or goes to an American play?" I quote Smith from Jay B. Hubbell's relentlessly — and, I hope, consciously — hilarious book, Who... | |
 | Tom Pilkington - 1998 - Počet stránok 192
...infamous essay in 1819 for the Edinburgh Review: "In the four quarters of the globe," Smith asked, "who reads an American book? or goes to an American play? or looks at an American picture?" In the early and middle decades of the nineteenth century, many American writers, including William... | |
 | Katherine Sherwood Bonner McDowell - 2000 - Počet stránok 451
...bristle at the judgment published in 1820 by Scots clergyman and critic Sydney Smith (1771-1845): "In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American...play, or looks at an American picture or statue?" (in his review of Seybert's Annals of the United States). JULIA WARD HOWE Among the eminent women of... | |
 | Počet stránok 384
...travelers complained of "American materialism" and "vile cupidity." The Edinburgh Review asked in 1820, "In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American...American play? or looks at an American picture or statue?"9 Mrs. Frances Trollope wrote of America in 1832: 'The immense exhalation of periodical trash,... | |
 | Rupert Christiansen - 2002 - Počet stránok 288
...example, the witty and Whiggish cleric, who in 1820 asked in the pages of the Edinburgh Review. '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? . . . finally, under which of the old tyrannical governments... | |
 | Joseph J. Ellis - 2002 - Počet stránok 256
...questions that have continued to echo through the ages. "In the four quarters of the globe," asked Smith, "who reads an American book? or goes to an American...play? or looks at an American picture or statue?" 3 The answer, of course, was "Nobody." Frances Trollope explained why in her Domestic Manners of the... | |
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