"Reveries of a Bachelor or, A Book of the Heart" by Donald Grant Mitchell is a reflective exploration of the inner life of a bachelor. Through a series of essays, Mitchell delves into themes of love, solitude, and the beauty of nature, offering readers a glimpse into the contemplative mind of a man navigating the complexities of life without the companionship of a partner. His prose is rich and evocative, painting vivid pictures of the world around him while also probing the depths of huma...

"Dream Life: A Fable of the Seasons" by Donald Grant Mitchell is a whimsical exploration of the changing seasons through the lens of a dreamer. The narrative unfolds in a picturesque setting, where the protagonist experiences the beauty and challenges of each season. Mitchell's lyrical prose invites readers to reflect on the cycles of nature and the passage of time, blending fantasy with reality. The book serves as a reminder of the joys and sorrows that accompany the seasons, encouraging ...

We take outlook to-day from the threshold of the seventeenth century. Elizabeth is dead (1603), but not England. The powers it had grown to under her quickening offices are all alive. The great Spanish dragon has its teeth drawn; Cadiz has been despoiled, and huge galleons, gold-laden, have come trailing into Devon ports. France is courteously friendly. Holland and England are in leash, as against the fainter-growing blasts of Popedom. In Ireland, Tyrone has been whipped into bloody quietu...

In "Dream Life: A Fable of the Seasons," Donald Grant Mitchell weaves a rich tapestry of narrative that intertwines the cycles of nature with the human experience. This allegorical work, written in a poetic and reflective style, explores the four seasons as metaphors for the stages of life'Äîeach with its unique challenges and rhythms. Mitchell employs lush imagery and lyrical prose, inviting readers to immerse themselves in a dreamlike landscape that celebrates the interplay between the e...

In "Dream Life: A Fable of the Seasons," Donald Grant Mitchell weaves a rich tapestry of poetic prose that encapsulates the passage of time through the changing seasons. This allegorical narrative immerses the reader in the idyllic landscape of rural New England, exploring themes of nature, nostalgia, and the cyclical patterns of life. Mitchell's stylistic choices—marked by lyrical description and reflective insight—create a contemplative atmosphere that invites readers to ponder the deepe...

It is no wonder; for those Lake counties are very beautiful,—as if, some day, all the tamer features of English landscape had been sifted out, and the residue of picturesqueness and salient objects of flood and mountain had been bunched together in those twin regions of the Derwent and of Windermere. Every American traveller is familiar, of course, with the charming glimpses of Lake Saltonstall from the Shore-line high-road between New York and Boston; let them imagine these multiplied by ...

In those dreary early centuries when England was in the throes of its beginnings, and when the Roman eagle—which had always led a half-stifled life amongst British fogs, had gone back to its own eyrie in the South—the old stock historians could and did find little to fasten our regard—save the eternal welter of little wars. Indeed, those who studied fifty years ago will remember that all early British history was excessively meagre and stiff; some of it, I daresay, left yet in the accredit...

We open in this book upon times—belonging to the earlier quarter of the eighteenth century—when, upon the Continent of Europe, Peter the Great was stamping out sites for cities in the bogs by the Finland gulf—when that mad-cap Swedish King Charles XII. was cutting his bloody swathe through Poland—when Louis XIV., tired at last of wars, and more tired of Marlborough, was nearing the end of his magnificent career, and when King Mammon was making ready his huge bloat of the Mississippi Bubble...

The Complete Works of Donald Grant MitchellThis Complete Collection includes the following titles:--------1 - English Lands Letters and Kings: From Elizabeth to Anne2 - English Lands Letters and Kings: The Later Georges to Victoria3 - English Lands Letters and Kings: From Celt to Tudor4 - Reveries of a Bachelor; or, A Book of the Heart

This book is neither more nor less than it pretends to be; it is a collection of those floating reveries which have, from time to time, drifted across my brain. I never yet met with a bachelor who had not his share of just such floating visions; and the only difference between us lies in the fact that I have tossed them from me in the shape of a book. If they had been worked over with more unity of design I dare say I might have made a respectable novel; as it is, I have chosen the honeste...

English Lands Letters and Kings: From Elizabeth to Anne is a short overview of many figures in English history.

Pshaw! said my Aunt Tabithy, "have you not done with dreaming?" My Aunt Tabithy, though an excellent and most notable person, loves occasionally a quiet bit of satire. And when I told her that I was sharpening my pen for a new story of those dreamy fancies and half-experiences which lie grouped along the journeying hours of my solitary life, she smiled as if in derision. ----"Ah, Isaac," said she, "all that is exhausted; you have rung so many changes on your hopes and your dreams, that you...