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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... writer is very copious and satis factory , and he has made this very intricate title fo clear and in- telligible ; that it is level even to a moderate capacity . But as this chapter is nearly , if not exactly , the fame with the ...
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... writer , feldom fail to abound . POLITICA L. Art . 17. Three Letters to a Member of the Honourable Houfe of Commons , from a Country Farmer , concerning the Prices of Provifions ; and pointing out a fure Method of preventing a future ...
... writer , feldom fail to abound . POLITICA L. Art . 17. Three Letters to a Member of the Honourable Houfe of Commons , from a Country Farmer , concerning the Prices of Provifions ; and pointing out a fure Method of preventing a future ...
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... writer of every publication , ( as fuch intelligence must be fuppofed agreeable to their Readers - and , indeed , fometimes , fufficiently fatisfactory , altho ' no other circumftance were added ) when fuch writer has himfelf affixed it ...
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