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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... genius ; and of the efficacy of thofe ingredients united in compofition . Of the ufual indications of genius . Of the connexion betwixt genius , wit and humour . Of the mutual influence of imagination on tafte , and of tafte on ...
... genius ; and of the efficacy of thofe ingredients united in compofition . Of the ufual indications of genius . Of the connexion betwixt genius , wit and humour . Of the mutual influence of imagination on tafte , and of tafte on ...
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... genius ; of original genius in poetry ; of original genius in the other fine arts and laftly , he lays it down as a general obfer- vation , which he endeavours to fupport by particular arguments , that original poetic genius will be ...
... genius ; of original genius in poetry ; of original genius in the other fine arts and laftly , he lays it down as a general obfer- vation , which he endeavours to fupport by particular arguments , that original poetic genius will be ...
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... genius . A third caufe of this quality's being remarkably exerted in an early period of fociety , is the leifure and tranquillity of un- , cultivated life , together with the innocent pleasures which ge- nérally attend it . Genius ...
... genius . A third caufe of this quality's being remarkably exerted in an early period of fociety , is the leifure and tranquillity of un- , cultivated life , together with the innocent pleasures which ge- nérally attend it . Genius ...
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