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 At the end of the work , Johnson announced that he would produce a new edition of Shakespeare : 

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 After nine years of work , Johnson 's A Dictionary of the English Language was published in 1755 . It had a far @-@ reaching effect on Modern English and has been described as " one of the greatest single achievements of scholarship " . This work brought Johnson popularity and success . Until the completion of the Oxford English Dictionary 150 years later , Johnson 's was viewed as the pre @-@ eminent British dictionary . His later works included essays , an influential annotated edition of The Plays of William Shakespeare , and the widely read tale The History of Rasselas , Prince of Abissinia . In 1763 , he befriended James Boswell , with whom he later travelled to Scotland ; Johnson described their travels in A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland . Towards the end of his life , he produced the massive and influential Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets , a collection of biographies and evaluations of 17th- and 18th @-@ century poets . 

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 The process of translating Tintin into British English was then commissioned in 1958 by Methuen , Hergé 's British publishers . It was a joint operation , headed by Leslie Lonsdale @-@ Cooper and Michael Turner , working closely with Hergé to attain an accurate translation as true as possible to the original work . Due in part to the large amount of language @-@ specific word play ( such as punning ) in the series , especially the jokes which played on Professor Calculus ' partial deafness , it was always the intention not to translate literally , instead striving to sculpt a work whose idioms and jokes would be meritorious in their own right . Despite the free hand Hergé afforded the two , they worked closely with the original text , asking for regular assistance to understand Hergé 's intentions . 

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 Johnson 's dictionary was not the first , nor was it unique . It was , however , the most commonly used and imitated for the 150 years between its first publication and the completion of the Oxford English Dictionary in 1928 . Other dictionaries , such as Nathan Bailey 's Dictionarium Britannicum , included more words , and in the 150 years preceding Johnson 's dictionary about twenty other general @-@ purpose monolingual " English " dictionaries had been produced . However , there was open dissatisfaction with the dictionaries of the period . In 1741 , David Hume claimed : " The Elegance and Propriety of Stile have been very much neglected among us . We have no Dictionary of our Language , and scarce a tolerable Grammar . " Johnson 's Dictionary offers insights into the 18th century and " a faithful record of the language people used " . It is more than a reference book ; it is a work of literature . 

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 The first translation into English , with an introduction and parallel Greek and English texts , was made by Sir Arthur Hort ( 1864 – 1935 ) . It was published simultaneously by William Heinemann in London and G. P. Putnam 's Sons in New York , as a two @-@ volume book Theophrastus Enquiry into Plants and minor works on odours and weather signs in 1916 . 
