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 262
... mean well ; but , at the fame time , with real diffidence , confcious of my own liableness to error . ' The Doctor now proceeds to confider the means of promoting human improvement and happiness in the United States ; and the first ...
... mean well ; but , at the fame time , with real diffidence , confcious of my own liableness to error . ' The Doctor now proceeds to confider the means of promoting human improvement and happiness in the United States ; and the first ...
Page 293
... means . Does he fcorn all limits , and tranfgrefs the bounds , which the nicety of Attic ears , and Attic tafte , had established , any more than Euripides , who was by no means fo frequent an imitator of " the Father of Heroic Song ...
... means . Does he fcorn all limits , and tranfgrefs the bounds , which the nicety of Attic ears , and Attic tafte , had established , any more than Euripides , who was by no means fo frequent an imitator of " the Father of Heroic Song ...
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... means defired to infinuate , that our ingenious Author " entertained the fmalleft with or intention of concealing any one original paffage to which the Monoftrophics allude . " Nor did we mean to call upon him to point out the passages ...
... means defired to infinuate , that our ingenious Author " entertained the fmalleft with or intention of concealing any one original paffage to which the Monoftrophics allude . " Nor did we mean to call upon him to point out the passages ...
Contents
FOTHERGILLs Works in Quarto | 6 |
SMYTHS Tour in the United States | 12 |
Aderne | 41 |
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