Social Insights and Criticisms
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| To the Ladies | show | Then all that's kind is laid aside / And nothing left but sate and pride
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| To the Ladies | show | Then shun, oh! shun that wretched state / And all the fawning flatterers hate
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| To the Ladies | show | Value yourself, and men despise: / You must be proud if you'll be wise.
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| My Last Duchess | show | Paint / Must never hope to reproduce the faint / Half flush that dies along her throat.
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| show | Robert Browning | she liked whatever / She looked on, and her looks went everywhere
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| My Last Duchess | show | I choose / Never to stoop.
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| show | Robert Browning | I gave commands; / Then all smiles stopped together.
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| show | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | Four gray walls, and four gray towers / Overlook a space of flowers / And the silent isle embowers / The Lady of Shalott
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| The Lady of Shalott | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | show 🗑
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| The Lady of Shalott | show | And at the closing of the day,/ She loosed the chain and down she lay
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| The Lady of Shalott | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | show 🗑
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| show | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | But Lancelot mused a little space / He said, "She has a lovely face; / God in his mercy led her grace, / The Lady of Shalott."
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| The Rape of the Lock | show |
Here thou, Great Anna! whom three realms obey, / Dost sometimes counsel take -- and sometimes tea.
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| The Rape of the Lock | show | The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, / And wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
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| show | Alexander Pope | O thoughtless mortals; ever blind to fate, / Too soon dejected, and too soon elate.
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| The Rape of the Lock | Alexander Pope | show 🗑
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| The Rape of the Lock | show | Now Jove suspends his golden scales in air / Weighs the men's wits against the ladies' hair.
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| show | Alexander Pope | But see how oft ambitious aims are crossed, / And chiefs contend till all the prize is lost.
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| Disembarking at Quebec | show | or is it my own lack / of conviction
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| Disembarking at Quebec | show | The moving water will not show me / my reflection
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| Disembarking at Quebec | show | The rocks ignore
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| show | Margaret Atwood | I am a word / in a foreign language.
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| The Hollow Men | T. S. Eliot | show 🗑
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| show | T. S. Eliot | We grope together / And avoid speech / Gathered on this beach of the tumid river.
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| The Hollow Men | T. S. Eliot | show 🗑
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| The Hollow Men | T. S. Eliot | show 🗑
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| show | T. S. Eliot | Between the emotion / And the response / Falls the Shadow
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| show | T. S. Eliot | This is the way the world ends / Not with a bang but a whimper.
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| show | Samuel Pepys | And among other things, the poor pigeons, I perceive, were loathe to leave their houses, but hovered about the windows and balconies till they were, some of them burned, their wings, and fell down.
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| show | William Butler Yeats | The best lack all conviction, w hile the worst / Are full of passionate intensity.
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| The Second Coming | show | A shape with lion body and head of a man / A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun / Is moving its slow thighs
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| The Second Coming | William Butler Yeats | show 🗑
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| A Modest Proposal | show | I shall now therefore humbly propose my own thoughts, which I hope will not be liabe to the least objection.
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| show | Jonathan Swift | I grant this food will be somewhat dear, and therefore very proper for landlords, who, as they have already devoured most of the parents, seem to have the best title to the children.
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| A Modest Proposal | show | Those who are more thrifty (as I must confess the times require) may flay the carcass; the skin of which, artifically dressed, will make admirable gloves for ladies, and summer boots for fine gentlemen.
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| show | Jonathan Swift | I rather recommend buying the children live, and dressing them hot from the knife as we do roasting pigs.
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| A Modest Proposal | show | Men would become as fond to their wives during their time of pregnancy as they are now of their mares in foal, their cows in calf, or sows when they are ready to farrow; nor offer to beat or kick them (as is too frequent a practice).
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| A Modest Proposal | show | I can think of no one objection that will possibly be raised against this proposal.
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| To the Ladies | show | Wife and servant are the same
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