The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal, Volume 72Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths R. Griffiths, 1785 - Books A monthly book announcement and review journal. Considered to be the first periodical in England to offer reviews. In each issue the longer reviews are in the front section followed by short reviews of lesser works. It featured the novelist and poet Oliver Goldsmith as an early contributor. Griffiths himself, and likely his wife Isabella Griffiths, contributed review articles to the periodical. Later contributors included Dr. Charles Burney, John Cleland, Theophilus Cibber, James Grainger, Anna Letitia Barbauld, Elizabeth Moody, and Tobias Smollet. |
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Page 132
... Readers are by this time grown as fick , the Reviewer hath often exclaimed with Juvenal , Vexatus toties ? nunquamne reponam Dr. Priestley hath given us the hope of peace , for , at leaft , two years ; but after that , he will be again ...
... Readers are by this time grown as fick , the Reviewer hath often exclaimed with Juvenal , Vexatus toties ? nunquamne reponam Dr. Priestley hath given us the hope of peace , for , at leaft , two years ; but after that , he will be again ...
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... readers of the most exquifite tafte . The prefatory advertisement confirms this idea . The advertisement . The author being induced to make public the following pieces , thinks it neceffary at the fame time to inform the generality of ...
... readers of the most exquifite tafte . The prefatory advertisement confirms this idea . The advertisement . The author being induced to make public the following pieces , thinks it neceffary at the fame time to inform the generality of ...
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... Readers to thofe articles . ODE XVI . When we pointed out the places in this Ode , and in fome others which Mr. H. had more immediately copied from the ancients , we by no means defired to infinuate , that our ingenious Author ...
... Readers to thofe articles . ODE XVI . When we pointed out the places in this Ode , and in fome others which Mr. H. had more immediately copied from the ancients , we by no means defired to infinuate , that our ingenious Author ...
Contents
FOTHERGILLs Works in Quarto | 6 |
SMYTHS Tour in the United States | 12 |
Aderne | 41 |
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