Johnson, Samuel (1709–84). English lexicographer, critic, poet, and moralist,
who achieved through his Dictionary of the English Language (1755) and the model of his own writings pre-eminence in his lifetime as an authority on the language. Such comprehensive scholarly works as his edition of ... ...
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