Lexiphanes
Subtitle: a dialogue, imitated from Lucian, and suited to the present times, being an attempt to restore the English tongue to its ancient purity, and to correct, as well as expose, the affected style, hard words, and absurd phraseology of many late writers, and particularly of our English Lexiphanes, the Rambler.
Contributors: Lucian, of Samosata.
Edition: The second edition, corrected.
Publisher: Printed for J. Knox ...
Published: 1767
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 185
Subjects: Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784.; English language -- Lexicography -- Early works to 1800.
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Notes: Courtney, W.P.  Bibl. of Samuel Johnson (1968), p. 27
NUC pre-1956 NC 0071234
Written by Archibald Campbell, directed especially against Dr. Samuel Johnson. Cf. Courtney.
Signatures: a¹² b⁸ B-H¹² I⁶ K⁴.
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