The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal, Volumen 52Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths R. Griffiths, 1775 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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... Colonies , ADELPHI , of Térence , new Tranflation of , ADVENTURES of a Corkscrew , ADVERTÍSEÁ , a Poem , AIKIN's Life of Agricola , ALMON'S Debates in the Houfe of Com- mons , Vols . X. XI . AMERICA , Publications relative to . See COLONIES ...
... Colonies , ADELPHI , of Térence , new Tranflation of , ADVENTURES of a Corkscrew , ADVERTÍSEÁ , a Poem , AIKIN's Life of Agricola , ALMON'S Debates in the Houfe of Com- mons , Vols . X. XI . AMERICA , Publications relative to . See COLONIES ...
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... Colonies , CAPRICIOUS Father , 537 360 CARSTARES's State Papers , 143 concluded , 217 * CASE's Sermons , 367 359 DISCOURSE on Hereditary Right , 51 DISSERTATION on the Geometrical Analyfis of the Ancients , DORSETSHIRE , Hiftory of ...
... Colonies , CAPRICIOUS Father , 537 360 CARSTARES's State Papers , 143 concluded , 217 * CASE's Sermons , 367 359 DISCOURSE on Hereditary Right , 51 DISSERTATION on the Geometrical Analyfis of the Ancients , DORSETSHIRE , Hiftory of ...
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... Colonies , 457 POTTER on the Poor Laws , 458 315 ronations in France , 250 Part II . 9 MERCURY , Diss , on , 276 PRESENT Crifis , 177 METHODISM , a Farce , 95 PRINCIPLES of Politeness , 372 , 373 MIRROR of Human Nature , 282 PRIESTLEY'S ...
... Colonies , 457 POTTER on the Poor Laws , 458 315 ronations in France , 250 Part II . 9 MERCURY , Diss , on , 276 PRESENT Crifis , 177 METHODISM , a Farce , 95 PRINCIPLES of Politeness , 372 , 373 MIRROR of Human Nature , 282 PRIESTLEY'S ...
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... Colonies , of the principal Towns , & c . in 555 139 Dorset , VILLAGE Memoirs , VINDICATION of Leake's Forceps , 352 VOYAGES round the World , Collection of , to the Southern Hemisphere , ib . Vysa's Geographical Grammar , 282 W gerald ...
... Colonies , of the principal Towns , & c . in 555 139 Dorset , VILLAGE Memoirs , VINDICATION of Leake's Forceps , 352 VOYAGES round the World , Collection of , to the Southern Hemisphere , ib . Vysa's Geographical Grammar , 282 W gerald ...
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... Colonies . Part the Second . Wherein a Line of Government between the fupreme Jurifdiction of Great Britain and the Rights of the Colonies is drawn , and a Plan of Pacification is fuggefted , & c . By Thomas Pownal , late Governor , & c ...
... Colonies . Part the Second . Wherein a Line of Government between the fupreme Jurifdiction of Great Britain and the Rights of the Colonies is drawn , and a Plan of Pacification is fuggefted , & c . By Thomas Pownal , late Governor , & c ...
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The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal, Volumen 68 Ralph Griffiths,G. E. Griffiths Vista completa - 1783 |
The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal, Volumen 60 Ralph Griffiths,G. E. Griffiths Vista completa - 1779 |
Términos y frases comunes
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Página 378 - There at the foot of yonder nodding beech That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, His listless length at noontide would he stretch, And pore upon the brook that babbles by.
Página 545 - Over this they would wander without a possibility of restraint; they would change their manners with the habits of their life; would soon forget a government by which they were disowned; would become hordes of English Tartars ; and pouring down upon your unfortified frontiers a fierce and irresistible cavalry, become masters of your governors and your...
Página 544 - ... when I reflect upon these effects, when I see how profitable they have been to us, I feel all the pride of power sink, and all presumption in the wisdom of human contrivances melt and die away within me. My rigor relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty.
Página 352 - Dear as the ruddy drops that warm my heart, Ye died amidst your dying country's cries — No more I weep : they do not sleep ! On yonder cliffs, a grisly band, I see them sit; they linger yet Avengers of their native land : With me in dreadful harmony they join, And weave with bloody hands the tissue of thy line.
Página 542 - ... cementing principle. My plan, therefore, being formed upon the most simple grounds imaginable, may disappoint some people when they hear it. It has nothing to recommend it to the pruriency of curious ears. There is nothing at all new and captivating in it. It has nothing of the splendor of the project which has been lately laid upon your table by the noble lord in the blue ribbon.
Página 352 - Thro' the azure deep of air : Yet oft before his infant eyes would run Such forms as glitter in the Muse's ray, With orient hues, unborrow'd of the sun : Yet shall he mount, and keep his distant way Beyond the limits of a vulgar fate, Beneath the Good how far — but far above the Great. THE BARD. A Pindaric Ode. I. i. seize thee, ruthless King ! Confusion on thy banners wait ; Tho' fann'd by Conquest's crimson wing, They mock the air with idle state.
Página 60 - I sat down on a bank, such as a writer of Romance might have delighted to feign. I had indeed no trees to whisper over my head, but a clear rivulet streamed at my feet. The day was calm, the air soft, and all was rudeness, silence, and solitude.
Página 543 - For some time past, the old world has been fed from the new. The scarcity which you have felt would have been a desolating famine, if this child of your old age, with a true filial piety, with a Roman charity, had not put the full breast of its youthful exuberance to the mouth of its exhausted parent.
Página 544 - I contemplate these things; when I know that the colonies in general owe little or nothing to any care of ours, and that they are not squeezed into this happy form by the constraints of watchful and suspicious government, but that, through a wise and salutary neglect, a generous nature has been suffered to take her own way to perfection...
Página 324 - In these experiments, one circumstance struck me with particular surprise. This was the sudden, wide, and forcible spreading of a drop of oil on the face of the water, which I do not know that anybody has hitherto considered.