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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... last century ; in which , though we obferve a freedom of thought that merits refpect , we perceive a degree of acrimony against characters of eftablifhed reputation , which ought not to pafs without cenfure . ART . IV . First Lines of ...
... last century ; in which , though we obferve a freedom of thought that merits refpect , we perceive a degree of acrimony against characters of eftablifhed reputation , which ought not to pafs without cenfure . ART . IV . First Lines of ...
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... last , p . 436. ) is under confideration . The Reviewers would be obliged to any of their Readers who can favour them with a fight of a pamphlet entitled " Doubts of the Infidels : - fubmitted to the Confideration of the Bench of ...
... last , p . 436. ) is under confideration . The Reviewers would be obliged to any of their Readers who can favour them with a fight of a pamphlet entitled " Doubts of the Infidels : - fubmitted to the Confideration of the Bench of ...
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... last Oratorio at which he attended , and performed , was on the 6th of April , and he expired on Friday the 13th 1759 , and not on Saturday the 14th , as was at firft erroneously engraved on his mo- mument , and recorded in his life ; I ...
... last Oratorio at which he attended , and performed , was on the 6th of April , and he expired on Friday the 13th 1759 , and not on Saturday the 14th , as was at firft erroneously engraved on his mo- mument , and recorded in his life ; I ...
Contents
FOTHERGILLs Works in Quarto | 6 |
SMYTHS Tour in the United States | 12 |
Aderne | 41 |
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