Robert Lowth FRS (/laʊð/ LOWDH; 27 November 1710 – 3 November 1787) was a Bishop of the Church of England, Oxford Professor of Poetry and the author of...
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Colin Lowth (born 1987), English swimmer Edward Lowth Badeley (1803/1804–1868), English lawyer John Lowth (1822–1877), American lawyer Robert Lowth (1710–1787)...
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English-language prescriptivists, including influential 18th-century grammarian Robert Lowth, than is exclusively a conjunction and therefore takes either nominative...
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understood to cancel one another and produce a weakened affirmative (see the Robert Lowth citation below): this is known as litotes. However, depending on how...
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nature of languages evidenced from distribution. For example, a cleric, Robert Lowth, introduced the rule to never end a sentence with a preposition, inspired...
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18th century scholar Robert Lowth is cited as the originator of the prescriptive rule, such a rule is not to be found in Lowth's writing, and is not known...
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thought[by whom?] to have been based on the norms of Latin grammar. Robert Lowth is frequently cited [by whom?][citation needed] as having done so,[clarification...
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Canterbury on 26 April 1783, on the joint recommendation of bishops Robert Lowth and Richard Hurd, both of whom had declined the primacy. Though not a...
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most popular early English grammars and the first written by a woman. Robert Lowth, Bishop of Oxford and thereafter of London, scholar of Hebrew poetry...
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In Jarick, John (ed.). Sacred Conjectures: The Context and Legacy of Robert Lowth and Jean Astruc. T&T Clark. ISBN 978-0-567-02932-4. Newsom, Carol Ann...
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