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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... whole . By difpofition is meant the art of grouping the figures , and of combining the several parts of a picture . This is different from defign , which confiders how each part fepa- rately taken concurs in producing a whole . It is an ...
... whole . By difpofition is meant the art of grouping the figures , and of combining the several parts of a picture . This is different from defign , which confiders how each part fepa- rately taken concurs in producing a whole . It is an ...
Page 164
... whole in painting . When the parts are scattered , they have no dependance on each other ; they are still only parts : but by an agreeable grouping , they are maffed together , and become a whole . In difpofing figures great artifice is ...
... whole in painting . When the parts are scattered , they have no dependance on each other ; they are still only parts : but by an agreeable grouping , they are maffed together , and become a whole . In difpofing figures great artifice is ...
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... whole . Whenever you come to Persfield , reft yourself some time at this bench , for believe me , it is a capital one . From thence an agreeable walk , fhaded on one fide with a great number of very fine fpruce firs , leads you to an ...
... whole . Whenever you come to Persfield , reft yourself some time at this bench , for believe me , it is a capital one . From thence an agreeable walk , fhaded on one fide with a great number of very fine fpruce firs , leads you to an ...
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