| | 87 | Author: | Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 | Add | | | Title: | Battle of Life  | | | | Published: | 2000 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | Once upon a time, it matters little when, and in stalwart England,
it matters little where, a fierce battle was fought. It was fought
upon a long summer day when the waving grass was green. Many a
wild flower formed by the Almighty Hand to be a perfumed goblet for
the dew, felt its enamelled cup filled high with blood that day,
and shrinking dropped. Many an insect deriving its delicate colour
from harmless leaves and herbs, was stained anew that day by dying
men, and marked its frightened way with an unnatural track. The
painted butterfly took blood into the air upon the edges of its
wings. The stream ran red. The trodden ground became a quagmire,
whence, from sullen pools collected in the prints of human feet and
horses' hoofs, the one prevailing hue still lowered and glimmered
at the sun. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 88 | Author: | Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 | Add | | | Title: | A child`s history of England / by Charles Dickens ; with illustrations by Marcus Stone. | | | | Published: | 2000 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | IF you look at a Map of the World, you will see, in the left-hand
upper corner of the Eastern Hemisphere, two Islands lying in the
sea. They are England and Scotland, and Ireland. England and
Scotland form the greater part of these Islands. Ireland is the
next in size. The little neighbouring islands, which are so small
upon the Map as to be mere dots, are chiefly little bits of
Scotland,—broken off, I dare say, in the course of a great length
of time, by the power of the restless water. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 89 | Author: | Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 | Add | | | Title: | The Cricket on the Hearth | | | | Published: | 2000 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | The kettle began it! Don't tell me what Mrs.
Peerybingle said. I know better. Mrs. Peerybingle may leave it on record to the end of time
that she couldn't say which of them began it; but,
I say the kettle did. I ought to know, I hope! The
kettle began it, full five minutes by the little waxy-faced Dutch clock
in the corner, before the Cricket uttered a chirp. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 90 | Author: | Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 | Add | | | Title: | David Copperfield | | | | Published: | 2000 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | I do not find it easy to get sufficiently far away from this Book,
in the first sensations of having finished it, to refer to it with
the composure which this formal heading would seem to require. My
interest in it, is so recent and strong; and my mind is so divided
between pleasure and regret -pleasure in the achievement of a long
design, regret in the separation from many companions -that I am
in danger of wearying the reader whom I love, with personal
confidences, and private emotions. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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