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 169
... object . ' C -And if ingenuoufnefs had been his object , he would have told his readers , that all that he hath said had been said before , both by WHITBY and TAYLOR of the prefent age , and Schlich- tingius and Crellius of the laft ...
... object . ' C -And if ingenuoufnefs had been his object , he would have told his readers , that all that he hath said had been said before , both by WHITBY and TAYLOR of the prefent age , and Schlich- tingius and Crellius of the laft ...
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... objects that exift no more but in ruins ; and thus , alas ! may be claffed , without impropriety , among the ... object of exportation ; what remains over and above the home confumption is falted , and fent in prefents to Naples ...
... objects that exift no more but in ruins ; and thus , alas ! may be claffed , without impropriety , among the ... object of exportation ; what remains over and above the home confumption is falted , and fent in prefents to Naples ...
Page 542
... objects of the most interesting and inftructive kind , on which he cafts fome rays of light , and beftows a vast ... object , which is the hiftory of religion ; and they furnish matter for a variety of curious difcuffions . M. PARA ...
... objects of the most interesting and inftructive kind , on which he cafts fome rays of light , and beftows a vast ... object , which is the hiftory of religion ; and they furnish matter for a variety of curious difcuffions . M. PARA ...
Contents
FOTHERGILLs Works in Quarto | 6 |
SMYTHS Tour in the United States | 12 |
Aderne | 41 |
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