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A Day with John MiltonMilton still retained much of that personal comeliness which had won him, at Cambridge, the nickname of "Lady of Christ's College." His original red and white had now become a uniform pallor; his thick, light brown hair, parted at the...

A Day with LongfellowThe expression of serious and tender thoughtfulness, which always characterized the quiet face of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, had deepened during his later years, into something akin to melancholy. The tragic loss of his beloved wife,burned to death while she was sealing...

A Day with Lord Byronne February afternoon in the year 1822, about two o'clock,for this is the hour at which his day begins,"the most notorious personality of his century" arouses himself, in the Palazzo Lanfranchi at Pisa. George Gordon Noel, Lord Byron, languidly arises...

A Day with Robert Louis Stevenson Supposing that in the month of April, 1886, you had arrived, a guest foreseen, at the pleasant ivy-muffled dwelling in Bournemouth, which had recently adopted the name of Skerryvore, and that you had been permitted to enter its...

A Day with Robert SchumannIt is an April morning in 1844, in the town of Leipzig,calm, cool, and fraught with exquisite promise of a prolific spring,when the Herr Professor Doctor Robert Schumann, rising before six o'clock as is his wont, very quietly and noiselessly...

A Day with Samuel Taylor Coleridge IN a beautiful part of beautiful Somerset, where the "soft orchard and cottage scenery" is dimpled between blue hillslopes, where meadows and woods and translucent streams compete with each other in charm,in the lovely region of the Quantock...

A Day with the Poet Burnshere are few figures which appeal more picturesquely to the imagination than that of the ploughman-poetswarthy, stalwart, black-eyed,striding along the furrow in the grey of a dreary dawn. Yet Burns was far from being a mere uncultured peasant, nor...

A Day with the Poet Tennyson TENNYSON was no recluse. He shunned society in the ordinary London sense, but he welcomed kindred spirits to his beautiful home, with large-hearted cordiality. To be acquainted with Farringford was in itself a liberal education. Farringford was an...

A Day with Walt Whitmanbout six o'clock on a midsummer morning in 1877, a tall old man awoke, and was out of bed next moment,but he moved with a certain slow leisureliness, as one who will not be hurried. The reason of this deliberate...

A Day with William Shakespeare IT was early on a bright June morning of the year 1599. The household of Christopher Mountjoy, the wig-maker, at the corner of Silver Street in Cripplegate, was already up and astir. Mountjoy, his wife and daughter, and his...

A Day's Ride: A Life's Romance A DAY'S RIDE CHAPTER I. I PREPARE TO SEEK ADVENTURES CHAPTER II. BLONDEL AND I SET OUT CHAPTER III. TRUTH NOT ALWAYS IN WINE CHAPTER IV. PLEASANT REFLECTIONS ON AWAKING CHAPTER V. THE ROSARY AT INISTIOGE CHAPTER VI....

A Day's Tour - A Journey through France and Belgium by Calais, Tournay, Orchies, Douai, Arras, Béthune, Lille, Comines, Ypres, Hazebrouck, Berghis trifle is intended as an illustration of the little story in 'Evenings at Home' called 'Eyes and No Eyes,' where the prudent...

A Dead Reckoning"You misunderstand me, Aunt Jane. I have been so happy since that evening last year when Gerald whispered something to me in the summer-house, that all my life before I knew him seems as unreal as a dream." A third lady, who...

A Deal in Wheat and Other Stories of the New and Old WestAs Sam Lewiston backed the horse into the shafts of his backboard and began hitching the tugs to the whiffletree, his wife came out from the kitchen door of the house and...

A Deal with the DevilBefore my grandpapa, Mr. Daniel Dolphin, comes down to breakfast on the morning of his hundredth birthday, I may tell you something about him. He has been married three times; he has buried all his wives and all his children....

A Dear Little GirlEdna did not like that word opportunity; it always seemed to her that it meant something unpleasant. She had noticed that when pleasant things came along they were rarely spoken of as "opportunities," but were just happenings. So she sat with...

A Dear Little Girl at SchoolEdna and Cousin Ben Barker were on the back porch. It was a favorite place, for it was always shady there in summer and out of the wind on cold days. If big Cousin Ben did not always like...

A Dear Little Girl's Summer Holidays It was a very warm morning in June. Edna and her friend Dorothy Evans were sitting under the trees trying to keep cool. They both wore their thinnest morning frocks and had pinned their hair up in little...

A Dear Little Girl's Thanksgiving Holidays"I mean that grandma wants us all to spend an old-fashioned Thanksgiving with her; the kind she used to have when she[10] was young. She says she and grandpa are both getting old and they may not be able...

A Debt of Honor: The Story of Gerald Lane's Success in the Far WestOur story opens in a cabin among the foothills of Colorado. It was built of logs, and was not over twelve feet in height. In the center was a door, with...