Does this line make you more sympathetic or less toward the narrator/murderer? Why? The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could; but when he ventured upon insult‚ I vowed revenge. It makes me less sympathetic toward him because he is being overly dramatic. Premium ...
A Hart with Its Head Held High: A New Emendation for Beowulf, Line 1372adoi:info:doi/10.1080/0895769X.2019.1579082PorckBossenbroekAnq A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles Notes & Reviews
. Add in the large numbers of fans from around the country who passed through Los Angeles thanks to the war, many of them processed via the Induction Center at nearby Fort MacArthur before being sent off to fight, and you have something unique in the history of fandom, a saga featuring f...
I have translated from his text of the poem (Cambridge University Press, 1914); but now and then I have adopted the words with which some other editors have patched up the ragged spots. And I haven't bothered to ask anybody's permission, nor said anything about it in footnotes. Thus ...
{"text":"XVI.\n\nHROTHGAR LAVISHES GIFTS UPON HIS DELIVERER.\n\n\n{Heorot is adorned with hands.}\n\n Then straight was ordered that Heorot inside[1]\n With hands be embellished: a host of them gathered,\n Of men and women, who the wassailing-building\n The guest-hall begeared....
6 The most detailed account of hunting in Pre-Conquest England comes is provided by Ælfric’s Colloquy on the Occupations, a text that was originally written in Latin in the early eleventh century as a teaching tool, before an Old English gloss was added at a later date by an unknown...