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Classic from the year 2008 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: -, -, language: English, abstract: 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.§Heaven keep us from a knowledge of the sights the moon beheld upon that field, when, coming up above the black line of distant rising ground, softened and blurred at the edge by trees, she rose into the sky and looked upon the plain, strewn with upturned faces that had once at mothers breasts sought mothers eyes, or slumbered happily. Heaven keep us from a knowledge of the secrets whispered afterwards upon the tainted wind that blew across the scene of that day s work and that night s death and suffering! Many a lonely moon was bright upon the battle ground, and many a star kept mournful watch upon it, and many a wind from every quarter of the earth blew over it, before the traces of the fight were worn away. [...]

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Zařazení knihy Knihy v angličtině Language Language: reference & general

• Plný název: Battle of Life
• Autor: Charles Dickens
• Jazyk: Angličtina
• Vazba: Brožovaná
• Počet stran: 110
• EAN: 9783640235902
• ISBN: 3640235908
• ID: 01616909
• Nakladatelství: Grin Publishing
• Hmotnost: 154 g
• Rozměry: 210 × 148 × 7 mm
• Datum vydání: 20. December 2008

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