Dafydd Gibbon
2. Februar 1999
Lexicographer: A harmless drudge.
(``Ein harmloser Langweiler'')
Dr Samuel Johnson, A Dictionary of the English Language,
I knew that the work in which I engaged is generally considered as drudgery for the blind, as the proper toil of artless industry; a task that requires neither the light of learning, nor the activity of genius, but may be successfully performed without any higher quality than that of bearing burdens with dull patience, and beating the track of the alphabet with sluggish resolution.
Samuel Johnson, letter to the Earl of Chesterfield on The Plan of an English Dictionary (1747).
