Read the passages. Then, write two to three sentences explaining how the meaning and connotation of the word lexicographer differs in each passage. Thus have I laboured by settling the orthography, displaying the analogy, regulating the structures, and ascertaining the signification of English words, to perform all the parts of a faithful lexicographer . . .
–Preface to A Dictionary of the English Language, Samuel Johnson

But these were the dreams of a poet doomed at last to wake a lexicographer.
–Preface to A Dictionary of the English Language, Samuel Johnson