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Napoleon Bonaparte was declared emperor of France in 1804, and the English statesman William Pitt sat across a dining table, each carving out a piece from a plum pudding in the shape of the world. "The diminutive Napoleon, rising from his seat to…

The Festival of the Golden Rump is a visual satire, circulated in the popular political paper Common Sense or The Englishman's Journal. Its main purpose was to critique governmental overreach and manipulation during King George II's rule. At the…

The Rape of the Lock' is a satirical narrative poem about a petty squabble between two aristocratic families. A young man cut off a lock of hair from a young woman without her consent, which caused quite a scandal in high society. Pope, who…

This is the first page of Samuel Johnson's periodical essay, The Rambler No. 11. In this essay, Johnson analyzes the social and personal implications of individuals lacking emotional control. There is a very theatrical leading letter that embodies…