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He died in Frognal in Hampstead, London on 9 June 1901, aged 64. [13]In 1903 the Society of Authors erected at St. Paul's a plaque of Besant by George Framton. The inscription reads: "Sir Walter Besant, novelist. historian of London, secretary of the Palestine exploration fund, originator of the people's palace and founder of the Society of Authors.
This is a list of translations of Beowulf, one of the best-known Old English heroic epic poems. Beowulf has been translated many times in verse and in prose. By 2020, the Beowulf's Afterlives Bibliographic Database listed some 688 translations and other versions of the poem, from Thorkelin's 1787 transcription of the text, and in at least 38 languages.
Further, the Old English text is full of embellishments, especially verbal parallels, opposites and variations, so that as the scholar Frederick Klaeber stated, there is a "lack of steady advance"; the narrative takes a step forwards, then a step sideways with "traditional near-synonyms". [5]
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Catholic edition of the English Standard Version. Includes the deuterocanonical books. Roman Catholic Evangelical Heritage Version: EHV Modern English 2019 Lutheran and Evangelical Protestant: Expanded Bible EXB Modern English 2011 The base text is a modified version of the New Century Version. Offers alternate translations alongside the main ...
Many dictionaries have been digitized from their print versions and are available at online libraries. Some online dictionaries are organized as lists of words, similar to a glossary , while others offer search features, reverse lookups , and additional language tools and content such as verb conjugations, grammar references, and discussion forums.
Most of the pairs listed below are closely related: for example, "absent" as a noun meaning "missing", and as a verb meaning "to make oneself missing". There are also many cases in which homographs are of an entirely separate origin, or whose meanings have diverged to the point that present-day speakers have little historical understanding: for ...