Monthly Review; Or New Literary Journal, Volume 61Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths R. Griffiths., 1780 - Periodicals Editors: May 1749-Sept. 1803, Ralph Griffiths; Oct. 1803-Apr. 1825, G. E. Griffiths. |
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... Those writers who lay on the watch for no- velty could have little hope of greatness ; for great things cannot have escaped former obfervation . Their attempts were always ana- lytic ; they broke every image into fragments ; and could ...
... Those writers who lay on the watch for no- velty could have little hope of greatness ; for great things cannot have escaped former obfervation . Their attempts were always ana- lytic ; they broke every image into fragments ; and could ...
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... those who , having already found then in later books , do not know or enquire who produced them firft . Tis treatment is unjust . Let not the original author lose by his imators . But of the praise of Waller , though much may be taken ...
... those who , having already found then in later books , do not know or enquire who produced them firft . Tis treatment is unjust . Let not the original author lose by his imators . But of the praise of Waller , though much may be taken ...
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... Those of our Readers who defire to fee the fame fubject treated at greater length , may confult an ingenious French work , entitled , " The Theory of agreeable Senfations * ; " in which this doctrine is • Vid . Review , vol . ii . p ...
... Those of our Readers who defire to fee the fame fubject treated at greater length , may confult an ingenious French work , entitled , " The Theory of agreeable Senfations * ; " in which this doctrine is • Vid . Review , vol . ii . p ...
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... those which we have cited , it would afford matter of regret to all lovers of the Arts . We muft obferve , however , that our Author appears to have been too negligent of order in his difcourfe . His propenfity to digreffion has ...
... those which we have cited , it would afford matter of regret to all lovers of the Arts . We muft obferve , however , that our Author appears to have been too negligent of order in his difcourfe . His propenfity to digreffion has ...
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... those who judge merely as they are biaffed by education , we think it not impoffible , that , in a future age , a more daring critic may attempt to prove that this Pefhito is the very original in which the facred writers have penned the ...
... those who judge merely as they are biaffed by education , we think it not impoffible , that , in a future age , a more daring critic may attempt to prove that this Pefhito is the very original in which the facred writers have penned the ...
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Page 85 - To be of no Church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by Faith and Hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind, unless it be invigorated and reimpressed by external ordinances, by stated calls to worship, and the salutary influence of example.
Page 17 - It ought, in my opinion, to be indispensably observed, that the masses of light in a picture be always of a warm mellow colour, yellow, red, or a yellowish- white ; and that the blue, the grey, or the green colours be kept almost entirely out of these masses, and be used only to support and set off these warm colours ; and for this purpose, a small proportion of cold colours will be sufficient.
Page 88 - He seems to have been well acquainted with his own genius, and to know what it was that Nature had...
Page 180 - The most frightful disorders arose from the state of feudal anarchy. Force decided all things. Europe was one great field of battle, where the weak struggled for freedom', and the strong for dominion. The king was without power', and the nobles without principle.
Page 344 - ... extent and variety of the universe, could we travel from planet to planet, and from system to system, in order to examine each part of this mighty fabric? Any one of these four principles above mentioned (and a hundred others which lie open to our conjecture) may afford us a theory, by which to judge of the order of the world; and it is a palpable and egregious partiality, to confine our view entirely to that principle, by which our own minds operate.
Page 84 - ... read for pleasure or accomplishment, and who buy the numerous products of modern typography, the number was then comparatively small. To prove the paucity of readers, it may be sufficient to remark, that the nation had been satisfied from 1623 to 1664, that is, forty-one years, with only two editions of the works of Shakspeare, which probably did not together make one thousand copies.
Page 1 - It is with great propriety that subtlety, which in its original import means exility of particles, is taken in its metaphorical meaning for nicety of distinction. Those writers who lay on the watch for novelty could have little hope of greatness; for great things cannot have escaped former observation.
Page 184 - Towards the latter end of this month, September, Charles will begin to recover his perfect health, according to his nativity, which, casting it myself, I am sure is true, and all things hitherto have happened accordingly to the very time that I predicted them : I hope at the same time to recover more health, according to my age.