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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... nature of the air , may have acquired a toughness to their fkin , and likewife ftrength fufficient to float or fwim , according to the feveral pro- perties with which nature may have endowed them ; in short , their external appearance ...
... nature of the air , may have acquired a toughness to their fkin , and likewife ftrength fufficient to float or fwim , according to the feveral pro- perties with which nature may have endowed them ; in short , their external appearance ...
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... nature . He has , very agreeably , mixed with the defcription poetical quotations , with the view ( as he himself profeffes ) of infpiring a tafte for the most delightful products of art , as well as for the principal beauties of nature ...
... nature . He has , very agreeably , mixed with the defcription poetical quotations , with the view ( as he himself profeffes ) of infpiring a tafte for the most delightful products of art , as well as for the principal beauties of nature ...
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... nature . But this apology , in the view of unpreju- diced reafon and of genuine philanthropy , aggravates furely the guilt it is meant to extenuate . For the neceffity which ufurpation creates , the ufurper is always refponfible : and ...
... nature . But this apology , in the view of unpreju- diced reafon and of genuine philanthropy , aggravates furely the guilt it is meant to extenuate . For the neceffity which ufurpation creates , the ufurper is always refponfible : and ...
Contents
FOTHERGILLs Works in Quarto | 6 |
SMYTHS Tour in the United States | 12 |
Aderne | 41 |
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