The optimism that characterized londoners during the victorian age was primarily caused by
a. economic prosperity.
b. the institution of democracy.
c. improvements in living conditions.
d. britain's isolation from the rest of the world.

Read the excerpt. while i am i, and you are you, so long as the world contains us both, me the loving and you the loth, while the one eludes, must the other pursue. what do these lines, from “life in a love” by robert browning, convey about the speaker’s pursuit of his beloved? eventually, they will switch roles, and she will chase him. he will try to win her love for as long as they are both alive. if they lived in a different time and place, he would not love her. they are meant for each other, and he is certain that they will be together.

Read the excerpt from”do not go gentle into that good night” which statement best describes the effect of the refrains in this excerpt?

According to the study, what made jonathan swift distrust the assumption most english people of his era made about the superiority of their own race and culture?