The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal, Volume 66Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths R. Griffiths, 1782 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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... idea of it is to be found . The works of Voltaire which fhould beft fhew his genius , if he had any , are Canaide , and a poem which I dare not name . His imagination here was with- out reftraint ; and what has it produced ? Ridiculous ...
... idea of it is to be found . The works of Voltaire which fhould beft fhew his genius , if he had any , are Canaide , and a poem which I dare not name . His imagination here was with- out reftraint ; and what has it produced ? Ridiculous ...
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... ideas to his favourite passions ; and prostituted talents , formed to adorn humanity , to a mife- rable love of money and of fame . A proftitute he was , and of the moft defpicable clafs . Born to independence , and poffeffed of ...
... ideas to his favourite passions ; and prostituted talents , formed to adorn humanity , to a mife- rable love of money and of fame . A proftitute he was , and of the moft defpicable clafs . Born to independence , and poffeffed of ...
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... idea of univerfal admiration ? Every circumstance in France is favourable to talents : every circumftance is against them in England , except one . They are recompenfed here in a manner unknown to any other nation . The Earl of South ...
... idea of univerfal admiration ? Every circumstance in France is favourable to talents : every circumftance is against them in England , except one . They are recompenfed here in a manner unknown to any other nation . The Earl of South ...
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... ideas , he is enabled to make a multitude of comparisons ; thofe comparisons refine his judgment ; and thus , if , as I faid , he has naturally parts and feeling , he becomes a man of perfect tafle . A Frenchman has not thofe advantages ...
... ideas , he is enabled to make a multitude of comparisons ; thofe comparisons refine his judgment ; and thus , if , as I faid , he has naturally parts and feeling , he becomes a man of perfect tafle . A Frenchman has not thofe advantages ...
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... idea ) , confiders air and fire as different conditions idea ) , Jones's Phyfiological Difquifitions . II.
... idea ) , confiders air and fire as different conditions idea ) , Jones's Phyfiological Difquifitions . II.
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Page 102 - ALMIGHTY and everlasting God, who hast given unto us thy servants grace, by the confession of a true faith, to acknowledge the glory of the eternal Trinity, and in the power of the divine Majesty to worship the Unity...
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Page 117 - Malloch to English Mallet, without any imaginable reason of preference which the eye or ear can discover. What other proofs he gave of disrespect to his native country, I know not ; but it was remarked of him, that he was the only Scot whom Scotchmen did not commend.
Page 118 - Whether to plant a walk in undulating curves, and to place a bench at every turn where there is an object to catch the view; to make water run where it will be heard, and to stagnate where it will be seen; to leave intervals where the eye will be pleased, and to thicken the plantation where there is something to be hidden, demands any great powers of mind...
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Page 460 - But the decline of Rome was the natural and inevitable effect of immoderate greatness. Prosperity ripened the principle of decay; the causes of destruction multiplied with the extent of conquest; and, as soon as time or accident had removed the artificial supports, the stupendous fabric yielded to the pressure of its own weight.
Page 115 - In his Night Thoughts he has exhibited a very wide display of original poetry, variegated with deep reflections and striking allusions, a wilderness of thought in which the fertility of fancy scatters flowers of every hue and of every odour. This is one of the few poems in which blank verse could not be changed for rhyme but with disadvantage.