The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal, Band 42Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths R. Griffiths, 1770 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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... beautiful fimplicity : The HOSPITABLE CAKE . Erft in Arcadia's londe much prais'd was found A luftie tree far rearing t'ward the fkie , Sacred to Jove , and placed on high ground , Beneath whofe fhade did gladfome Thepherds hie , Met ...
... beautiful fimplicity : The HOSPITABLE CAKE . Erft in Arcadia's londe much prais'd was found A luftie tree far rearing t'ward the fkie , Sacred to Jove , and placed on high ground , Beneath whofe fhade did gladfome Thepherds hie , Met ...
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... beautiful , though it can neither enjoy beauty nor tafte wit . Surely this conftruction is not incongruous ; nor this language nonfentical . The The objection which we made to failing a fhade , Ogilvy's Poenis on several Subjects . " 123.
... beautiful , though it can neither enjoy beauty nor tafte wit . Surely this conftruction is not incongruous ; nor this language nonfentical . The The objection which we made to failing a fhade , Ogilvy's Poenis on several Subjects . " 123.
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... beautiful lady who died of the fmall - pox , ' there is fomething moit abominably fhocking . This and the following piece of Sir William's are both dated , in their title pages , 1768 ; but we were ignorant of their existence , till we ...
... beautiful lady who died of the fmall - pox , ' there is fomething moit abominably fhocking . This and the following piece of Sir William's are both dated , in their title pages , 1768 ; but we were ignorant of their existence , till we ...
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... beautiful ; an archangel , though , in confequence of his fall , " With faded luftre wan . " But here we have , by implication , the goblin of the nursery , with hooked nofe , curling horns , faucer eyes , and cloven feet ; and to ...
... beautiful ; an archangel , though , in confequence of his fall , " With faded luftre wan . " But here we have , by implication , the goblin of the nursery , with hooked nofe , curling horns , faucer eyes , and cloven feet ; and to ...
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... beautiful fhepherdess , fweetly attentive to the melodious pipe of her beloved fhepherd , whofe touch harmonious furpaffed that of Orpheus , or Amphion , whofe ftrains enchanting upreared the walls of Thebes : A fage , on whom fat ...
... beautiful fhepherdess , fweetly attentive to the melodious pipe of her beloved fhepherd , whofe touch harmonious furpaffed that of Orpheus , or Amphion , whofe ftrains enchanting upreared the walls of Thebes : A fage , on whom fat ...
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Seite 439 - How often have I blest the coming day, When toil remitting lent its turn to play, And all the village train, from labour free, Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree...
Seite 441 - His house was known to all the vagrant train ; He chid their wanderings, but relieved their pain...
Seite 440 - Where wealth accumulates, and men decay : Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade ; A breath can make them as a breath has made ; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every rood of ground maintained its man...
Seite 442 - To them his heart, his love, his griefs were given, But all his serious thoughts had rest in heaven. As some tall cliff that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale, and midway leaves the storm, Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head.
Seite 442 - Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And e'en his failings leaned to virtue's side...
Seite 442 - Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And e'en his failings leaned to virtue's side ; But in his duty prompt at every call, He watched and wept, he prayed and felt for all. And as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt its new-fledged offspring to the skies, He tried each art, reproved each dull delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way.
Seite 441 - Who quits a world where strong temptations try, And since 'tis hard to combat, learns to fly ! For him no wretches, born to work and weep, Explore the mine, or tempt the dangerous deep; No surly porter stands in guilty state, To spurn imploring famine from.
Seite 440 - Along the lawn where scatter'd hamlets rose, Unwieldy wealth and cumbrous pomp repose ; And every want to luxury allied, And every pang that folly pays to pride.
Seite 442 - Whose beard descending swept his aged breast ; The ruined spendthrift, now no longer proud, Claimed kindred there, and had his claims allowed...
Seite 379 - The power of the crown, almost dead and rotten as Prerogative, has grown up anew, with much more strength, and far less odium, under the name of Influence.