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 374
... given in this volume , viz . Queenborough Caftle in the Isle of Shepey ; the Temple of the Manfion of the Knights Templars at Stroud , ( both in the county of Kent ) ; the White Tower , or the Tower of London , and Ragland Caftle in the ...
... given in this volume , viz . Queenborough Caftle in the Isle of Shepey ; the Temple of the Manfion of the Knights Templars at Stroud , ( both in the county of Kent ) ; the White Tower , or the Tower of London , and Ragland Caftle in the ...
Page 485
... given a par- ticular description * . We have only to add , that our learned editor has given ample explications of the celebrated vafe , found in the funeral urn of Alexander Severus , and ornamented with several sculp- tures ; and of a ...
... given a par- ticular description * . We have only to add , that our learned editor has given ample explications of the celebrated vafe , found in the funeral urn of Alexander Severus , and ornamented with several sculp- tures ; and of a ...
Page 565
... given mass of boiling water , whose waste , by evaporation , is fupplied by new water of the fame tempera- ture ; in this process , he either measures the time , during which a given quantity of combuftible has kept up this ebullition ...
... given mass of boiling water , whose waste , by evaporation , is fupplied by new water of the fame tempera- ture ; in this process , he either measures the time , during which a given quantity of combuftible has kept up this ebullition ...
Contents
FOTHERGILLs Works in Quarto | 6 |
SMYTHS Tour in the United States | 12 |
Aderne | 41 |
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