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 192
... house and of Stroud- house , the feat of Gilbert Knowler , Efq . in the fame parish ; weft view of Herne church , and alfo of Dandelion gateway . No. XIX . Price 6d . is very fhort . It relates wholly to Sir John Hawkwood , for a former ...
... house and of Stroud- house , the feat of Gilbert Knowler , Efq . in the fame parish ; weft view of Herne church , and alfo of Dandelion gateway . No. XIX . Price 6d . is very fhort . It relates wholly to Sir John Hawkwood , for a former ...
Page 281
... house , in Brook - ftreet , and at Carlton house , where he had rehearsals of his Oratorios , by meeting him at Mrs. Cibber's , and at Frafi's , who was then my fcholar , I acquired confiderable knowledge of his private character , and ...
... house , in Brook - ftreet , and at Carlton house , where he had rehearsals of his Oratorios , by meeting him at Mrs. Cibber's , and at Frafi's , who was then my fcholar , I acquired confiderable knowledge of his private character , and ...
Page 374
... house of this order , fituated in Holbourn , and denominated The Temple . Several other new plates and descriptions are also given in this volume , viz . Queenborough Caftle in the Isle of Shepey ; the Temple of the Manfion of the ...
... house of this order , fituated in Holbourn , and denominated The Temple . Several other new plates and descriptions are also given in this volume , viz . Queenborough Caftle in the Isle of Shepey ; the Temple of the Manfion of the ...
Contents
FOTHERGILLs Works in Quarto | 6 |
SMYTHS Tour in the United States | 12 |
Aderne | 41 |
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