The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal, Volume 38Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths R. Griffiths, 1768 - 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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... observations . But we meet with fo many repetitions , that it becomes tedious . venture to say that the very fame illuftrations from the Greek and Roman hiftories , do not recur less than a dozen times . It must be confeffed however ...
... observations . But we meet with fo many repetitions , that it becomes tedious . venture to say that the very fame illuftrations from the Greek and Roman hiftories , do not recur less than a dozen times . It must be confeffed however ...
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... observations upon a pamphlet lately published , entitled , Occafimal Remarks , & c . • The production , fays he , if I may prefume to guess , is not of any of your auxilia ies , however numerous , but of your own pen , who en multiply ...
... observations upon a pamphlet lately published , entitled , Occafimal Remarks , & c . • The production , fays he , if I may prefume to guess , is not of any of your auxilia ies , however numerous , but of your own pen , who en multiply ...
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... observations : ; an ac- Charles I. was himself an elegant writer of profe , though the most wretched of all poets , even of the royal line complished private gentleman , poffeffing a fine taste in the polite arts , and all the virtues ...
... observations : ; an ac- Charles I. was himself an elegant writer of profe , though the most wretched of all poets , even of the royal line complished private gentleman , poffeffing a fine taste in the polite arts , and all the virtues ...
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