The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal, Volume 64Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths R. Griffiths, 1781 - 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 187
... means to tell . Such are the hens roofting on the upright waves in the fcene of the Strollers , and the devils ... mean engraver of arms on plate . We have reason to think that Mr. Walpole has been mif- informed in regard to Hogarth's ...
... means to tell . Such are the hens roofting on the upright waves in the fcene of the Strollers , and the devils ... mean engraver of arms on plate . We have reason to think that Mr. Walpole has been mif- informed in regard to Hogarth's ...
Page 255
... mean number of them in the former 10 years , as 1157,1 to 1180,4 . 6th . According to the baptifms and burials in the diocefe of St. David's , the mean number of the inhabitants , between the years 1700 and 1730 , was to the mean number ...
... mean number of them in the former 10 years , as 1157,1 to 1180,4 . 6th . According to the baptifms and burials in the diocefe of St. David's , the mean number of the inhabitants , between the years 1700 and 1730 , was to the mean number ...
Page 256
... means follows , that they are carried higher now than they were formerly ; or that they are of a more wicked nas ture , or of a more dangerous tendency . It was always the custom to praise the paft , and fpeak ill of the prefent times ...
... means follows , that they are carried higher now than they were formerly ; or that they are of a more wicked nas ture , or of a more dangerous tendency . It was always the custom to praise the paft , and fpeak ill of the prefent times ...
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LAUGHTONS Progrefs c of Chrifti | 4 |
BANGOR Bishop of his Faft Sermon 314 | 7 |
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