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 69
... fatire against aeroftation , and its approvers ; but had he been a philofopher , with no more claim to excellence in that character , than he poffeffes as a poet , he would have been ranked with the " feeble Amateurs . ' fuccefs of the ...
... fatire against aeroftation , and its approvers ; but had he been a philofopher , with no more claim to excellence in that character , than he poffeffes as a poet , he would have been ranked with the " feeble Amateurs . ' fuccefs of the ...
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... fatire , intitled , " A Poet hath bought a Houfe . " It is not improbable , therefore , when fpeaking of our windows , but that fome witling , in imita- tion of the fatirift , may exclaim , a Reviewer hath got a house ! " but we have ...
... fatire , intitled , " A Poet hath bought a Houfe . " It is not improbable , therefore , when fpeaking of our windows , but that fome witling , in imita- tion of the fatirift , may exclaim , a Reviewer hath got a house ! " but we have ...
Page 462
... fatire , are general vices and follies . From the many good hints to be found in this little tract , the fol- lowing are extracted , to give the reader a fpecimen of the writer's ftyle and manner . CAPTAIN . As there is ufually a little ...
... fatire , are general vices and follies . From the many good hints to be found in this little tract , the fol- lowing are extracted , to give the reader a fpecimen of the writer's ftyle and manner . CAPTAIN . As there is ufually a little ...
Contents
FOTHERGILLs Works in Quarto | 6 |
SMYTHS Tour in the United States | 12 |
Aderne | 41 |
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