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 207
... mentioned . He was now fenfible of the extreme danger he had been in , had the business in which he was engaged happened to transpire , through any indifcretion in his part . He now faw , or thought he faw , That the affair regarded ...
... mentioned . He was now fenfible of the extreme danger he had been in , had the business in which he was engaged happened to transpire , through any indifcretion in his part . He now faw , or thought he faw , That the affair regarded ...
Page 340
... mentioned , it is the too frequent ufe of alliterations . When fparingly admitted , they may occafionally contribute ... mention to the Tranflator , before we lay afide his book , as , in future editions , it may easily be corrected . It ...
... mentioned , it is the too frequent ufe of alliterations . When fparingly admitted , they may occafionally contribute ... mention to the Tranflator , before we lay afide his book , as , in future editions , it may easily be corrected . It ...
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... mentioned fum is requested at prefent . We poor Reviewers , who , according to Mr. Foote , have but four fhillings a week and small beer , will fet you the example . Seriously , this is a cafe , wherein the interefts of learning are fo ...
... mentioned fum is requested at prefent . We poor Reviewers , who , according to Mr. Foote , have but four fhillings a week and small beer , will fet you the example . Seriously , this is a cafe , wherein the interefts of learning are fo ...
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