The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal, Volume 38Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths R. Griffiths, 1768 - 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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... mentioned amphitheatre , which is entire , has a bad effect . Was the whole well cultivated and lively , being rather diftinct from the rest of the landscape , it would have a much better effect .. town . The last point , and which ...
... mentioned amphitheatre , which is entire , has a bad effect . Was the whole well cultivated and lively , being rather diftinct from the rest of the landscape , it would have a much better effect .. town . The last point , and which ...
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... mentioned , on this fide of Cardiff . The latter is all terrible ; but then it is a great extenuation , to obferve that they have been at work but two years . Much more to be condemned , is the execrable muddy road from Bury to Sudbury ...
... mentioned , on this fide of Cardiff . The latter is all terrible ; but then it is a great extenuation , to obferve that they have been at work but two years . Much more to be condemned , is the execrable muddy road from Bury to Sudbury ...
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... mentioned in the beginning of the viith chap- ter of this fong , are to be understood after this manner , and ... mention of the queen's clothing in the xlvih Pfalm , and her raiment of needle - work , as well as with the mentioning her ...
... mentioned in the beginning of the viith chap- ter of this fong , are to be understood after this manner , and ... mention of the queen's clothing in the xlvih Pfalm , and her raiment of needle - work , as well as with the mentioning her ...
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