The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal, Volume 68Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths R. Griffiths, 1783 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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... paffed with fome as of the Compofite , and with others as of the Corinthian order . It is to be regretted , that fo little of the architecture of the Auguftan period hath efcaped the wrecks of time ; fince Vitruvius lived till about the ...
... paffed with fome as of the Compofite , and with others as of the Corinthian order . It is to be regretted , that fo little of the architecture of the Auguftan period hath efcaped the wrecks of time ; fince Vitruvius lived till about the ...
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... paffed over from London into Germany , in the month of April , to the defence of Hanover , against a large army of French , that was marching towards it ; but he had paffed over without a British army , which he was extremely defirous ...
... paffed over from London into Germany , in the month of April , to the defence of Hanover , against a large army of French , that was marching towards it ; but he had paffed over without a British army , which he was extremely defirous ...
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... paffed up swirb pride , kissing that it is auteur abat conferred on him the power of continence . This , even in a de- tached light , is confident with the rules of Chrit and his Acoale St. Paul . It is an injunction of general purity ...
... paffed up swirb pride , kissing that it is auteur abat conferred on him the power of continence . This , even in a de- tached light , is confident with the rules of Chrit and his Acoale St. Paul . It is an injunction of general purity ...
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... paffed all the expectation which the high reputation of the com- pofer , and the uncommon magnitude of the enterprife , had ex- cited . There can be little melody , ' the Author adds , in any of thefe multiplied parts ; but to make them ...
... paffed all the expectation which the high reputation of the com- pofer , and the uncommon magnitude of the enterprife , had ex- cited . There can be little melody , ' the Author adds , in any of thefe multiplied parts ; but to make them ...
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... paffed away , in which a treatise has not been published , either by ignorance , by good intentions , or defign , bewailing the lofs of our commerce , and the ruin of the flate . Yet , is there reafon to hope , that as found philofophy ...
... paffed away , in which a treatise has not been published , either by ignorance , by good intentions , or defign , bewailing the lofs of our commerce , and the ruin of the flate . Yet , is there reafon to hope , that as found philofophy ...
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