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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... thing new , be that production ever fo fmall ( as for example , this line ) , is a perfon of genius . ' Is this notion right when applied to Crafhaw ; or would it only be right when applied to Dryden ? The latter was a lucky name to ...
... thing new , be that production ever fo fmall ( as for example , this line ) , is a perfon of genius . ' Is this notion right when applied to Crafhaw ; or would it only be right when applied to Dryden ? The latter was a lucky name to ...
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... thing that ftrikes , and with most perfons the only thing . Splendid language and bright colours will dazzle ninety - nine people in an hundred , captivate their eye and their fancy , and impofe upon their un- derstanding . This has ...
... thing that ftrikes , and with most perfons the only thing . Splendid language and bright colours will dazzle ninety - nine people in an hundred , captivate their eye and their fancy , and impofe upon their un- derstanding . This has ...
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... thing that tends to raise and quicken the fpirits is of use to a man who works from fancy ; and what raifes the spirits higher than the idea of univerfal admiration ? Every circumstance in France is favourable to talents : every ...
... thing that tends to raise and quicken the fpirits is of use to a man who works from fancy ; and what raifes the spirits higher than the idea of univerfal admiration ? Every circumstance in France is favourable to talents : every ...
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... things new will occur to the reader , if he has the patience to look for them ; and that the new things he will meet with , are fuch as will lead to a new train of experi- ments . We fhould obferve likewife , that the Author does not ...
... things new will occur to the reader , if he has the patience to look for them ; and that the new things he will meet with , are fuch as will lead to a new train of experi- ments . We fhould obferve likewife , that the Author does not ...
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... thing happens , in the refraction or infection of light , that can juftly be faid to refemble any effects produced by the mere change of direction , which a current of air fuffers in paffing through a narrow paffage , or over the edge ...
... thing happens , in the refraction or infection of light , that can juftly be faid to refemble any effects produced by the mere change of direction , which a current of air fuffers in paffing through a narrow paffage , or over the edge ...
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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...
Page 104 - LORD GOD, LAMB of GOD, SON of the FATHER, that takest away the sins of the world, have mercy upon us. Thou that takest away the sins of the world, have mercy upon us. Thou that takest away the sins of the world, receive our prayer. Thou that sittest at the right hand of GOD the FATHER, have mercy upon us.
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...
Page 370 - Thus the pleasure of seeing them come out to fight or to work, alternately, may be obtained as often as curiosity excites, or time permits; and it will certainly be found, that the one order never attempts to fight, nor the other to work, let the emergency be ever so great.
Page 403 - I lean over the handle, various are the thoughts which crowd into my mind. I am now doing for him, I say, what my father formerly did for me, may God enable him to live that he may perform the same operations for the same purposes when I am worn out and old!
Page 556 - NOW it came to pass in the days when the judges ruled, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Bethlehem-judah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons.
Page 366 - During eleven years of my refidenre in Bengal, the outlet or head of the Jellinghy River was gradually removed three quarters of a mile farther down: and by two furveys of a part of the adjacent bank of the Ganges, taken about the...
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.