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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... Reason in Europe . Tranflated from the French of the Marquis Carraccioli . Small 8vo . 3 s . bound . Macgowan . 1780 . T HIS is a fuperficial , and in many refpects a partial per- formance . The Author affects the ftyle and manner of ...
... Reason in Europe . Tranflated from the French of the Marquis Carraccioli . Small 8vo . 3 s . bound . Macgowan . 1780 . T HIS is a fuperficial , and in many refpects a partial per- formance . The Author affects the ftyle and manner of ...
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... Reason , that drew the following picture , and called it the King of Denmark's . Lucidor ( for that's the travelling name of Rea- fon ) found himself in the midft of Copenhagen . He was charmed there to find a young monarch , who had ...
... Reason , that drew the following picture , and called it the King of Denmark's . Lucidor ( for that's the travelling name of Rea- fon ) found himself in the midft of Copenhagen . He was charmed there to find a young monarch , who had ...
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... reason , vocal mufic fhould be confined to exprefs the feelings of the paflions , but never to express the exercise of them . Song , in any action in which reason tells us it would be unnatural to fing , mutt be prepoflerous . To fight ...
... reason , vocal mufic fhould be confined to exprefs the feelings of the paflions , but never to express the exercise of them . Song , in any action in which reason tells us it would be unnatural to fing , mutt be prepoflerous . To fight ...
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TO | 1 |
LAUGHTONS Progrefs c of Chrifti | 4 |
BANGOR Bishop of his Faft Sermon 314 | 7 |
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