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Viscount Lowther :
William Wordsworth to Viscount Lowther, 8 December 1818: 'I have seen Mr Fleming, and told him everything you wished ... I read him a considerable part of your last Letter ...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Manuscript: Letter
Robert Lowth : A short introduction to English grammar: with critical notes
[Marginalia]: ms notes on binding pages: (1) "an English verb has/ not above six or seven/ different ... /whereas a french has/ very often more than/forty"; (2) "The English language/ has the the [sic] advantage/ of the French in ... /to personification"
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Miss Erskine Print: Book
Lowth : Lowth's Prelections in Latin
"Now it was meeting James at seven in the morning to read Lowth's Prelections in the Latin,"
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Book
William Lowth : [biblical commentaries - old testament]
'I asked him whether he would advise me to read the Bible with a commentary, and what commentaries he would recommend. JOHNSON. "To be sure, Sir, I would have you read the Bible with a commentary; and I would recommend Lowth and Patrick on the Old Testament, and Hammond on the New".'