By Samuel Johnson, an English author who made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer. Johnson started his work over the Dictionary of the English Language in 1746; and in 1747 he published the plan of the book, which was devoted, in accordance with arrangement, to Lord Chesterfield. “In this work, when it shall be found that much is omitted, let it not be forgotten that much likewise is performed; and though no book was ever spared out of tenderness to the authour, and the world is little solicitous to know whence proceeded the faults of that which it condemns; yet it may gratify curiosity to inform it, that the English Dictionary was written with little assistance of the learned, and without any patronage of the great…”