The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal, Volumen70Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths R. Griffiths, 1784 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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... Seem'd to befiege , and make his bold waves tremble , Yea , his dread trident shake . ' Thus fays the poet . Now for plain profe : I do remember that in the great and boyfterous ftorme of this foule weather , in the night , there came ...
... Seem'd to befiege , and make his bold waves tremble , Yea , his dread trident shake . ' Thus fays the poet . Now for plain profe : I do remember that in the great and boyfterous ftorme of this foule weather , in the night , there came ...
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... seems , that the Unitarianifm of the Scriptures had been fufficiently proved by himself and others . He , therefore , in his Hiftory , did not refume the argument on that ground , but proceeded to prove the Unitarianifm of the primitive ...
... seems , that the Unitarianifm of the Scriptures had been fufficiently proved by himself and others . He , therefore , in his Hiftory , did not refume the argument on that ground , but proceeded to prove the Unitarianifm of the primitive ...
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... seems that we both of us have the fame authority for our very different opinions on this fubject . " It is fomewhat fin- gular , " he fays , p . 216 , " that the paffage to which the Doctor has fent us , by a mar- ginal reference ( for ...
... seems that we both of us have the fame authority for our very different opinions on this fubject . " It is fomewhat fin- gular , " he fays , p . 216 , " that the paffage to which the Doctor has fent us , by a mar- ginal reference ( for ...
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... seems to have no other way of evading the charges that may be brought against him in a court of criticism , than by denying its autho- rity , and refufing fubmiffion to its laws . The truth is , that confiding folely in the powers of ...
... seems to have no other way of evading the charges that may be brought against him in a court of criticism , than by denying its autho- rity , and refufing fubmiffion to its laws . The truth is , that confiding folely in the powers of ...
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... seems now and then ready to break through the affumed gravity with which the poet has apparently veiled his real fenti- ments . But thefe inftances are rare , and not of fufficient mag- nitude to combat the general opinion , that where ...
... seems now and then ready to break through the affumed gravity with which the poet has apparently veiled his real fenti- ments . But thefe inftances are rare , and not of fufficient mag- nitude to combat the general opinion , that where ...
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