The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal, Том 26Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths R. Griffiths, 1762 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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... greatest mafters of antiquity , and beyond any of their modern rivals ; but with regard to exactness , or refinement of taste , it will hardly be said , our Author the most ridiculous fort , foppifh and bewildering as it Letters to a ...
... greatest mafters of antiquity , and beyond any of their modern rivals ; but with regard to exactness , or refinement of taste , it will hardly be said , our Author the most ridiculous fort , foppifh and bewildering as it Letters to a ...
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... greatest master of his art , the modern world can boaft of ; and ever fince the revival of letters and arts , Great Britain hath been left infinitely behind in painting by Italy , and other Roman Catholic countries , while our poets ...
... greatest master of his art , the modern world can boaft of ; and ever fince the revival of letters and arts , Great Britain hath been left infinitely behind in painting by Italy , and other Roman Catholic countries , while our poets ...
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... greatest mafters of antiquity , and beyond any of their modern rivals ; but with regard to exactness , or refinement of taste , it will hardly be faid , our Author Author imagines , that we do not oftener meet in Letters to a young ...
... greatest mafters of antiquity , and beyond any of their modern rivals ; but with regard to exactness , or refinement of taste , it will hardly be faid , our Author Author imagines , that we do not oftener meet in Letters to a young ...
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... greatest influence upon that of a whole country , the character of a nation , with respect to this article , he obferves , ` will commonly be found to be what might be expected from the peculiarly favourable or unfavourable ...
... greatest influence upon that of a whole country , the character of a nation , with respect to this article , he obferves , ` will commonly be found to be what might be expected from the peculiarly favourable or unfavourable ...
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... greatest fea - port in the world . The intercourse which this muft create between vast numbers of its inhabitants and fea - faring people , may even be thought to communicate a little of that roughnefs which is more the characteristic ...
... greatest fea - port in the world . The intercourse which this muft create between vast numbers of its inhabitants and fea - faring people , may even be thought to communicate a little of that roughnefs which is more the characteristic ...
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Страница 33 - He shall not die, by G — ," cried my uncle Toby. The accusing spirit, which flew up to heaven's chancery with the oath, blushed as he gave it in ; and the recording angel, as he wrote it down, dropped a tear upon the word, and blotted it out for ever.
Страница 34 - ... would have done it, and asked him how he did, how he had rested in the night, what was his complaint, where was his pain, and what he could do to help him ; and without giving him time to answer any one of...
Страница 285 - Hence, bashful cunning; And prompt me, plain and holy innocence ! I am your wife, if you will marry me ; If not, I'll die your maid : to be your fellow You may deny me ; but I'll be your servant Whether you will or no.
Страница 210 - And he brought forth the people that were therein, and put them under saws, and under harrows of iron, and under axes of iron, and made them pass through the brickkiln: and thus did he unto all the cities of the children of Ammon.
Страница 29 - But alas, the poor gentleman will never get from hence, said the landlady to me, for I heard the death-watch all night long ; and when he dies, the youth, his son, will certainly die with him, for he is broken-hearted already. I was hearing this account...
Страница 28 - I'll take my hat and stick and go to the house and reconnoitre, and act accordingly; and I will bring your honour a full account in an hour.
Страница 31 - It is in the Scripture," said my uncle Toby ; " and I will show it thee to-morrow. In the mean time we may depend upon it, Trim, for our comfort...
Страница 29 - Poor youth ! said my uncle Toby ; he has been bred up from an infant in the army, and the name of a soldier, Trim, sounded in his ears like the name of a friend : I wish I had him here.
Страница 31 - Then, said he, I served three campaigns with him in Flanders, and remember him ; but 'tis most likely, as I had not the honour of any acquaintance with him, that he knows nothing of me. You will tell him, however, that the person his good-nature has laid under obligations to him is one Le Fevre, a Lieutenant in Angus's; — but he knows me not, said he, a second time, musing; possibly he may my story, added he.
Страница 27 - ... replied the landlord, of about eleven or twelve years of age ; but the poor creature has tasted almost as little as his father :' he does nothing but mourn and lament for him night and day. He has not stirred from the bed-side these two days.