id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-3673 A Dictionary of the English Language - Wikipedia .html text/html 5072 475 70 But perhaps the greatest single fault of these early lexicographers was, as historian Henry Hitchings put it, that they "failed to give sufficient sense of [the English] language as it appeared in use."[5] In that sense Dr. Johnson's dictionary was the first to comprehensively document the English lexicon. By 1747 Johnson had written his Plan of a Dictionary of the English Language, which spelled out his intentions and proposed methodology for preparing his document. ^ Advertisement in Derby Mercury 4 April 1755, page 4 'This day is published a Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson' Samuel Johnson A Dictionary of the English Language: An Anthology. Dictionary of the English Language Abstracted from the Folio Edition (12th ed.). "A Dictionary of the English Language: A Digital Edition of the 1755 Classic by Samuel Johnson". Samuel Johnson's Dictionary: Selections from the 1755 Work that Defined the English Language. Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language (1755) ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-3673.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-3673.txt