 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.  The Expansion of the American People, Social and Territorial - Stran 293avtor: Edwin Erle Sparks - 1900 - 461 straniCelotni ogled - O knjigi
 | 1819 - 654 strani
...Virginia by Jefferson, and an Epic by Joel Barlow — and some' pieces of pleasantry by Mr Irving. But why should the Americans write books, when a six...grist-mills, are their natural objects for centuries to come. Then, when they have got to the Pacific Ocean — epic poems P^'Vs, pleasures of memory, and all the... | |
 | 1820 - 590 strani
...literature, ' says the Reviewer, ' the Americans have ' none : It is all imported. And why should they write books ? * when a six weeks' passage brings them,...sense, science and genius, in bales and hogsheads?' — Now, what is the true meaning of this, but the following — ' The Americans do not write books... | |
 | 1820 - 544 strani
...literature,' says the reviewer, ' the Americans have none: it is all imported. And why should they write books? when a six weeks' passage brings them,...sense, science, and genius, in bales and hogsheads?' — Now, what is the true meaning of this, but the following — ' The Americans do not write books;... | |
 | Robert Walsh - 1819 - 574 strani
...Virginia by Jefferson, and an 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, in their own tongue, lour sense, science, and genius, in bales and •hogsheads') Prairies, steam-boats, grist-mills, are... | |
 | 1820 - 562 strani
...Virginia ' by Jefferson, and an epic by Joel Barlow — and some pieces of ' pleasantry by Mr. Irving. But why should the Americans write ' books, when a...are their natural objects for centuries to ' come. Then, when they have got to the Pacific ocean — epic ' poems, plays, pleasures of memory, and all... | |
 | 1820 - 558 strani
...literature,' says the Reviewer, ' the Americans have none: It is all imported. And why ' should they write books ? when a six weeks' passage brings them,...sense, science and genius, in bales and ' hogsheads ?' — Now, what is the true meaning of this, but the following — ' The Americans do not write books... | |
 | Robert Charles Dallas, Alexander Robert Charles Dallas - 1824 - 468 strani
...Virginia, by Jefferson, and an Epic, by Joel Barlow — and some pieces of pleasantry, by Mr. Irving. But why should the Americans write books, when a six...sense, science, and genius, in bales and hogsheads?*" Much cannot be said for the liberality of this criticism. Some names, it is true, have been doomed... | |
 | Robert Charles Dallas - 1824 - 464 strani
...Virginia, by Jefferson, and an Epic, by Joel Barlow — and some pieces of pleasantry, by Mr. Irving. But why should the Americans write books, when a six...sense, science, and genius* in bales and hogsheads?*" Much cannot be said for the liberality of this criticism. Some names, it is true, have been doomed... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1825 - 674 strani
...Virginia by Jefferson, and an epic by Joel Barlow— and some pieces of pleasantry by Mr Irving. Bui why should the Americans write books, when a six weeks'...their own tongue, our sense, science, and genius, inhales and hogsheads?» '—Much cannot be said for the liberality of this criticism. Some names,... | |
 | 1835 - 858 strani
...literature," says the reviewer, " the Americans have none : it is all imported. And why should they write books? when a six weeks' passage brings them,...sense, science, and genius, in bales and hogsheads'?" — Now, what is the true meaning of this, but the following: — "The Americans do not write books;... | |
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