The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal, Volume 64Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths R. Griffiths, 1781 - 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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... house , as fpices , fugar , wine , books , & c . must be paid for with money ; diftreffed or fhipwrecked mariners , and fome other poor ob- jects , required to be relieved with money ; but the poor of the ifland were fed and clothed ...
... house , as fpices , fugar , wine , books , & c . must be paid for with money ; diftreffed or fhipwrecked mariners , and fome other poor ob- jects , required to be relieved with money ; but the poor of the ifland were fed and clothed ...
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... house . However , he adds , it fhews how dangerous it was to injure the meaneft retainer to a religious house ; a peril very ludicrously , though justly ex- preffed , in the old English adage which I have fomewhere met with : " If ...
... house . However , he adds , it fhews how dangerous it was to injure the meaneft retainer to a religious house ; a peril very ludicrously , though justly ex- preffed , in the old English adage which I have fomewhere met with : " If ...
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... house . As I paffed under the gate by night , it could not ftrike me . At day - break , looking out of the window to fee the fun rife , I was fur- prised with the vision of the colonade that fronted me . It seemed one of those edifices ...
... house . As I paffed under the gate by night , it could not ftrike me . At day - break , looking out of the window to fee the fun rife , I was fur- prised with the vision of the colonade that fronted me . It seemed one of those edifices ...
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LAUGHTONS Progrefs c of Chrifti | 4 |
BANGOR Bishop of his Faft Sermon 314 | 7 |
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