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 64
... letters , figned Alfred , will appear to be party - productions , from the following brief fummary of their contents : The first letter is intended to prove , that an endeavour to exalt the royal prerogative has ever been ruinous to ...
... letters , figned Alfred , will appear to be party - productions , from the following brief fummary of their contents : The first letter is intended to prove , that an endeavour to exalt the royal prerogative has ever been ruinous to ...
Page 193
... letter , we deal in all arts and fciences , and exclude nothing from our converfation but politics , which would throw us all into confufion and diforder . ' < The lift of members , regular and extra - regular ( the last far the moft ...
... letter , we deal in all arts and fciences , and exclude nothing from our converfation but politics , which would throw us all into confufion and diforder . ' < The lift of members , regular and extra - regular ( the last far the moft ...
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... Letter of Enthusiasm , mentioned in the Apology for the Tale of a Tub . ' It is certain , that Swift fufpected the Colonel to be the au- thor of that Letter : while the Colonel , and others , gave it to Swift himself . But were they not ...
... Letter of Enthusiasm , mentioned in the Apology for the Tale of a Tub . ' It is certain , that Swift fufpected the Colonel to be the au- thor of that Letter : while the Colonel , and others , gave it to Swift himself . But were they not ...
Contents
FOTHERGILLs Works in Quarto | 6 |
SMYTHS Tour in the United States | 12 |
Aderne | 41 |
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