The Rambler
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The Rambler was written primarily for the newfound, rising middle-class of the 18th century, who sought social fluency within aristocratic social circles. It was especially targeted to the middle-class audience that were increasingly marrying into aristocratic families in order to create socio-economic alliances, but did not possess the social ...
The Rambler, a twopenny sheet issued twice weekly in London by the publisher John Payne between 1750 and 1752, each issue containing a single anonymous essay; 208 such periodical essays appeared, all but four written by Samuel Johnson.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Sep 6, 2013 · The Rambler, with some trivial exceptions, is the work of a single and unaided author, who composed it during his performance of a task which had fatigued "united academies and long successions of learned compilers 13."
The Rambler is a 2013 American independent horror film written and directed by Calvin Reeder. The film's narrative concerns a mysterious loner known only as the Rambler, played by Dermot Mulroney.
Jan 21, 2013 · The Rambler: Directed by Calvin Lee Reeder. With Dermot Mulroney, Lindsay Pulsipher, Natasha Lyonne, James Cady. A quiet drifter leaves prison, finds home on the road.
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May 28, 2006 · The Rambler is different. As the centerpiece of this decade of immense literary activity, Johnson saw it from the beginning as an entrepreneurial undertaking that would rival the other great collections of English essays, Bacon's Essays Civil and Moral and Addison and Steele's The Spectator.
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In 1750, still living in poverty, and already at work on his dictionary, Johnson began anonymously to write the essays which appeared in The Rambler, a twopenny sheet which appeared twice weekly for two years, whether Johnson was well or ill, idle or busy.
