[Olmsted reiterated his insistence that in Chicago] simplicity and reserve will be practiced and petty effects and frippery avoided.

[A]ll beaſts and birds aſſembled; and forgetting their ſeuerall appetites; ſome of pray, ſome of game, ſome of quarrell, ſtood all ſociably together liſtening vnto the ayres and accords of the Harpe; […]

Fall to your flap, my Masters, kisse and clip. […] Come hither, you foule flappes.

The camail that protected the neck has given place to the gorgière of plate, which for greater freedom of […]