Questão de Língua Inglesa

01. Advice Gratis to Certain Women – By a Woman 02. O, my strong-minded sisters, aspiring to vote, 03. And to row with your brothers, all in the same boat, 04. When you come out to speak to the public your mind, 05. Leave your tricks, and your airs, and your graces behind! 06. For instance, when you by the world would be seen 07. As reporter, or editor (first-class, I mean), 08. I think – just to come to the point in one line – 09. What you write will be finer, if 'tis not too fine. 10. Pray, don't let the thread of your subject be strung 11. With "golden," and "shimmer," "sweet," "filter," and "flung;" 12. Nor compel, by your style, all your readers to guess 13. You've ........ looking up words Webster marks obs. 14. And another thing: whatever else you may say, 15. Do keep personalities out of the way; 16. Don't try every sentence to make people see 17. What a dear, charming creature the writer must be! 18. Don't mistake me; I mean that the public's not home, 19. You must do as the Romans do, when you're in Rome; 20. I would have you be womanly, while you are wise; 21. 'Tis the weak and the womanish tricks I despise. 22. 'Tis a good thing to write, and to rule in the state, 23. But to be a true, womanly woman is great: 24. And if ever you come to be that, 'twill be when 25. You can cease to be babies, nor try to be men! Adaptado de: CAREY, Phoebe. Advice Gratis to Certain Women. In: RATTINER, Susan (ed.). Great Poems by American Women: An Anthology. Mineola: Dover Thrift, 1998. p. 72.