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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... whole was imported into England under the prefent impofts : a tax of more than ten pounds per acre , on all the cane land from which we derive any in- come , instead of nine - pence , the extent of what is actually paid , at an average ...
... whole was imported into England under the prefent impofts : a tax of more than ten pounds per acre , on all the cane land from which we derive any in- come , instead of nine - pence , the extent of what is actually paid , at an average ...
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... Whole from the fpur , unconfcious of the yoke . ' Setting afide the abfurdity of confounding the real and metaphorical character in the fame picture , is there not a grofs violation of metapho- rical propriety in the idea of whole from ...
... Whole from the fpur , unconfcious of the yoke . ' Setting afide the abfurdity of confounding the real and metaphorical character in the fame picture , is there not a grofs violation of metapho- rical propriety in the idea of whole from ...
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... whole , when we confider his character as a man , per- fectly free from vice , with few frailties , and fuch exalted virtues ; and as an author , poffeffed of fuch uncommon talents , fuch an ori- ginal vein of humour , fuch an ...
... whole , when we confider his character as a man , per- fectly free from vice , with few frailties , and fuch exalted virtues ; and as an author , poffeffed of fuch uncommon talents , fuch an ori- ginal vein of humour , fuch an ...
Contents
FOTHERGILLs Works in Quarto | 6 |
SMYTHS Tour in the United States | 12 |
Aderne | 41 |
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