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 147
... reflection on the evanefcence of every object of human ambition ; and an injunction to rely folely on virtue , which ... reflections , expressed in the following elegant and poetical detail of her unnatural , and probably even impious ...
... reflection on the evanefcence of every object of human ambition ; and an injunction to rely folely on virtue , which ... reflections , expressed in the following elegant and poetical detail of her unnatural , and probably even impious ...
Page 155
... reflections fevere : but he adds , that they are the most malicious which a heated imagination could invent . To prove this malice , he recapitulates all the objec- tions which have been made to thofe Letters , and which were long fince ...
... reflections fevere : but he adds , that they are the most malicious which a heated imagination could invent . To prove this malice , he recapitulates all the objec- tions which have been made to thofe Letters , and which were long fince ...
Page 347
... Reflections , occafioned by the Letter addreffed to Two Great Men , and the Remarks on that Letter . 8vo . 6 d . Dilly . It is amazing how Projectors multiply ! No fooner has one man formed a vifionary plan , than fifty are ready to ...
... Reflections , occafioned by the Letter addreffed to Two Great Men , and the Remarks on that Letter . 8vo . 6 d . Dilly . It is amazing how Projectors multiply ! No fooner has one man formed a vifionary plan , than fifty are ready to ...
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