Authority Cited: Shaw; Shaw’s Gramm.
Author name and dates: Samuel Shaw (1635-1696?)
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BKG Bio-tweet: Respected schoolmaster; wrote comedies performed by students; dissenting cleric; lost two children to bubonic plague
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: one Shaw's Grammar cite in 1755 Dict. vol. 1. No Shaw's Grammar cites identified as added in the 1773 Dict. Michael Johnson was SJ's father. See title page image below. There was also a 1687 London Clavel publication.]
Author name and dates: Samuel Shaw (1635-1696?)
Creative Commons License, National Portrait Gallery
BKG Bio-tweet: Respected schoolmaster; wrote comedies performed by students; dissenting cleric; lost two children to bubonic plague
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: one Shaw's Grammar cite in 1755 Dict. vol. 1. No Shaw's Grammar cites identified as added in the 1773 Dict. Michael Johnson was SJ's father. See title page image below. There was also a 1687 London Clavel publication.]
- Grammatica Anglo-Romana: or, A syncritical grammar, teaching English youth the Latin tongue by few and easie rules : comparing English with Latin. With a comment for the use of riper years ; containing the elegancies, and explaining the difficult phrases and idioms, which are peculiar to the Latin. Fitted to the sense of the learned Oxford-commentators upon Lilly's Grammar. By Samuel Shaw, Master of the Free-school in Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicester-shire, 1687; London: Printed for Michael Johnson, bookseller: And are to be sold at his shops in Litchfield and Uttoxiter in Stafford-shire; And Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicester-shire
- Shaw, S. (no work cited); ferula (Dict.: "These differ as much as the rod and ferula. Shaw’s Gramm.") [BKG Note: this quote was not found in Shaw's Grammar or in Shaw's published sermons. The DNB says that Shaw published three guides to grammar. From the Curiosmith web page, these appear to include An Epitome of the Latin Grammar by Questions and Answers and Words made visible, or Grammar and Rhetoric; a Comedy. I have not located these.]
