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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... written with the view of inculcating that moderation in literary and scientific purfuits , which may prevent their in- terfering with the active duties of life . The fourth illuftrates the beneficial influence of an attention to beauty ...
... written with the view of inculcating that moderation in literary and scientific purfuits , which may prevent their in- terfering with the active duties of life . The fourth illuftrates the beneficial influence of an attention to beauty ...
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... written in various measures . We objected to pureolos in Iambics , in ver . 8. Mr. H. defends it , by obferving , that Ionicifm is often admitted in the most pure Attic authors , ' of which Markland , he obferves , has produced many ...
... written in various measures . We objected to pureolos in Iambics , in ver . 8. Mr. H. defends it , by obferving , that Ionicifm is often admitted in the most pure Attic authors , ' of which Markland , he obferves , has produced many ...
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... written by the Dean ; the original MS . of which , written in his own . hand , is lodged in the University library of Dublin . ( 2 ) His Will . We have carefully perufed the whole of this volume , and given fuch a view of its contents ...
... written by the Dean ; the original MS . of which , written in his own . hand , is lodged in the University library of Dublin . ( 2 ) His Will . We have carefully perufed the whole of this volume , and given fuch a view of its contents ...
Contents
FOTHERGILLs Works in Quarto | 6 |
SMYTHS Tour in the United States | 12 |
Aderne | 41 |
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