 But why should the Americans write books, when a six weeks' passage brings them, in their own tongue, our sense, science and genius, in bales and hogsheads? Prairies, steam-boats, grist-mills, are their natural objects for centuries to come.  Contributions to the Edinburgh Review: Novels, tales, and prose works of fiction - Страница 329по Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1846Пълен достъп - Информация за книгата
 | Desmond Byrne - 1896 - 306 страници
...thoughtlessness and neglect ? ' Why,' asked a critic in the Edinburgh Review in 1819, 'should the Americans write books when a six weeks' passage brings them,...sense, science, and genius in bales and hogsheads ?' Are the Australians of these days asking themselves a similar question? It would seem so. In 1894... | |
 | Truman Jay Backus - 1897 - 508 страници
...Literature, the Americans have none; no native literature we mean. . . . But why should the Americans write books, when a six weeks' passage brings them,...sense, science, and genius in bales and hogsheads? " — Edinburgh Review, Vol. XXXI., p. 144. manufacture was even more alluring; highways were to be... | |
 | John Bach McMaster - 1900 - 614 страници
...one epic by Joel Barlow, and some pieces of pleasantry by Mr. Irving. But why should the Americans write books when a six weeks' passage brings them...sense, science, and genius in bales and hogsheads ? Prairies, steamboats, grist ^ mills, are their natural objects for centuries to come. By and by,... | |
 | Edwin Erle Sparks - 1900 - 470 страници
...were felt to have reached positive insult in an article which asked, "But why should the Americans write books, when a six weeks' passage brings them...sense, science and genius in bales and hogsheads. Prairies, steamboats, grist-mills, are their natural objects for centuries to come." Like most young... | |
 | John Bach McMaster - 1900 - 618 страници
...one epic by Joel Barlow, and some pieces of pleasantry by Mr. Irving. But why should the Americans write books when a six weeks' passage brings them...sense, science, and genius in bales and hogsheads? Prairies, steamboats, gristmills, are their natural objects for centuries to come. By and by, when... | |
 | John Bach McMaster - 1900 - 618 страници
...one epic by Joel Barlow, and some pieces of pleasantry by Mr. Irving. But why should the Americans write books when a six weeks' passage brings them...sense, science, and genius in bales and hogsheads? Prairies, steamboats, gristmills, are their natural objects for centuries to come. By and by, when... | |
 | Edwin Erle Sparks - 1904 - 562 страници
...history of their expedition. " But why should the Americans write books," asked the Edinburgh Review, "when a six weeks' passage brings them in their own...sense, science, and genius in bales and hogsheads. Prairies, steamboats, grist-mills are their natural objects for centuries to come." The crudity of... | |
 | Edwin Erle Sparks - 1904 - 522 страници
...history of their expedition. " But why should the Americans write books," asked the Edinburgh Review, ' ' when a six weeks' passage brings them in their own...sense, science, and genius in bales and -hogsheads. Prairies, steamboats, grist-mills are their natural objects for centuries to come." The crudity of... | |
 | Harry Perry Robinson - 1908 - 494 страници
...the Edinburgh Review (I am indebted for the quotation to Mr. Sparks) asked : " Why should Americans write books when a six- weeks' passage brings them...sense, science, and genius in bales and hogsheads? Prairies, steamboats, gristmills are their natural objects for centuries to come." Franklin's Autob1ography... | |
 | 1908 - 828 страници
...indebted for the quotation to Mr. Sparks) asked: "Why should Americans write books when a six-weeks passage brings them, in their own tongue our sense, science, and genius in bales and hogsheads? Prairies, steamboats, grist-mills are their natural objects for centuries to come." Franklin's Autobiography... | |
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