There are a lot of references to accents and speech in Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, to make it clear to the reader that the protagonist, Stephen Dedalus, is keenly aware of them. These are mostly straightforward, but I was baffled by this paragraph:
Cranly's speech, unlike that of Davi...
In Hamlet Act1, Scene 2, POLONIUS said:
He hath, my lord, wrung from me my slow leave
By laborsome petition, and at last
Upon his will I sealed my hard consent.
What does it mean by slow?
My understanding is that the author of the Aeneid can safely be referred to as either "Vergil" or "Virgil." So this question is not about "how should one refer to him." This question comes from a place of idle curiosity: How did there come to be two spellings in the first place, and what are the ...
@Bookworm TIL that there are two valid spellings of Virgil. Time for a tag synonym, I guess.
@MattThrower Technically, I think it was my upvote on your latest question that pushed you over the threshold :-) (then I went through my older questions and by chance the next answer in my to-accept list was yours)
In Hamlet Act1, Scene 2, POLONIUS said:
He hath, my lord, wrung from me my slow leave
By laborsome petition, and at last
Upon his will I sealed my hard consent.
What does it mean by slow?
