The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal, Volume 36Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths R. Griffiths, 1767 - 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 175
... fome paffages of a moft fingular kind , where he fpeaks of the late Dr. Middleton ; of Mr. Rouffeau ; and on fome other fubjects : but his expreffions are fuch as we cannot , in decency , re- peat . We fhall give our Readers the plan of ...
... fome paffages of a moft fingular kind , where he fpeaks of the late Dr. Middleton ; of Mr. Rouffeau ; and on fome other fubjects : but his expreffions are fuch as we cannot , in decency , re- peat . We fhall give our Readers the plan of ...
Page 291
... fome paltry declaimer , whofe honefty and genius were much upon a level . What he advances , in his preface , in fupport of his opinion , appears to us very juft and fatisfactory . It is Procopius the hiftorian , continues he , and not ...
... fome paltry declaimer , whofe honefty and genius were much upon a level . What he advances , in his preface , in fupport of his opinion , appears to us very juft and fatisfactory . It is Procopius the hiftorian , continues he , and not ...
Page 311
... fome remarks on the inland canals which were then ( 1760 ) cutting through this part of the kingdom : -W -We now attend him to Dublin . " J ' The fecond Volume opens with Letter 26. addreffed to the Earl of Corke , in which are fome ...
... fome remarks on the inland canals which were then ( 1760 ) cutting through this part of the kingdom : -W -We now attend him to Dublin . " J ' The fecond Volume opens with Letter 26. addreffed to the Earl of Corke , in which are fome ...
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