The Tatler was a British literary and society journal begun by Richard Steele in which year, and published for two years, it  represented a new approach to journalism, featuring cultivated essays on contemporary manners, and established the pattern that would be copied in such British classics such as Samuel Johnson's "Rambler", an English writer who made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer?
Samuel Johnson Samuel Johnson (18 September 1709 [OS 7 September]  – 13 December 1784), often referred to as Dr. Johnson, was an English writer who made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer. Johnson was a devout Anglican and committed Tory, and is described by the "Oxford Dictionary of National Biography" as "arguably the most distinguished man of letters in English history". He is also the subject of the biography, "The Life of Samuel Johnson" by James Boswell.
Nathan Bailey Nathan Bailey (died 27 June 1742), was an English philologist and lexicographer. He was the author of several dictionaries, including his "Universal Etymological Dictionary", which appeared in some 30 editions between 1721 and 1802. Bailey's "Dictionarium Britannicum" (1730 and 1736) was the primary resource mined by Samuel Johnson for his "Dictionary of the English Language" (1755).