An anonymous grammar was published a few years after Robert Lowth’s A Short Introduction to English Grammar (1762)—The First Easy Rudiments of Grammar, Applied to the English Tongue (1765), attributed to Samuel Johnson. But copies are elusive. Who was this Samuel Johnson, and what was his connection to our 91³Ô¹ÏÍø scholar and fellow Robert Lowth?

 

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