The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal, Volume 22Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths R. Griffiths, 1760 - 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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Page 44
... never heard the book men- tioned before . " What , have you never heard of that immortal Poet , ( returned the other , much furprized ) that light of the eyes , that favourite of Kings , that rofe of perfection . fuppofe you know ...
... never heard the book men- tioned before . " What , have you never heard of that immortal Poet , ( returned the other , much furprized ) that light of the eyes , that favourite of Kings , that rofe of perfection . fuppofe you know ...
Page 118
... never interrupted or perplexed , nor the imagination embar- raffed , nor the memory loaded with any thing which is not a proper part of that ONE WHOLE which makes the fubject ; the action from the firft is never broken , never interrupted , ...
... never interrupted or perplexed , nor the imagination embar- raffed , nor the memory loaded with any thing which is not a proper part of that ONE WHOLE which makes the fubject ; the action from the firft is never broken , never interrupted , ...
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... never fuffer it to overflow its first foun- ⚫tain head , whilft others leave it to diffuse itself at large , with- ..out keeping any certain channel . Both overlook the effential difference of tines , and on one hand the fimpleft form ...
... never fuffer it to overflow its first foun- ⚫tain head , whilft others leave it to diffuse itself at large , with- ..out keeping any certain channel . Both overlook the effential difference of tines , and on one hand the fimpleft form ...
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