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EGV2_klein_dilettantisme

XML     PDF LE DILETTANTISME The Database of Ornament ARGUMENT.—Like a star-gazer who would tell us that astronomy isvanity, yet offers in exchange his own…

EGV2_geddes_sociology

XML     PDF THE SOCIOLOGY OF AUTUMN The Database of Ornament ARGUMENT.—I. How everyday experience differentiates into the Arts and Sciences ; yet how their…

EGV2_douglas_cobweb

XML     PDF COBWEB HALL The Database of Ornament I KNOW an old house, situated in the Merse of Berwick- shire, which from its deserted…

EGV2_crockett_song

XML     PDF THE SONG OF LIFE’S FINE FLOWER The Database of Ornament                                                  AMALFI, March 1887.                                                      I    WHEREFORE OF JOY REMEMBERED                     Wherefore of joy remembered should I…

EGV2_branford_prefatory

XML     PDF PREFATORY NOTE In 1724 Allan Ramsay published his ‘Evergreen,’ desiring thereby to stimu- late the return to local and national tradition and…

EGV2_armour_love

XML     PDF LOVE SHALL STAY The Database of Ornament         THE rose is dead, and the honey-bee                 Forsakes the empty flower,         And summer has sailed across…

EGV1_toc

XML     PDF THE CONTENTS     Cover .      .      .      .       .      .      .       .      .   By C. H. Mackie.Page 5  Almanac    .      .      .       .      .      .       .      .   By Helen Hay. 9  Proem       .      .      .       …

EGV1_thomson_germinal

XML     PDF ‘GERMINAL, FLOREAL, PRAIRIAL’ The Database of Ornament These were names given to the Spring months at a famous time, some hundred years…

EGV1_stephens_sweetheart

XML     PDF MY SWEETHEART                                     In her eyes of sweetest brown                                     Love himself hath set him down ;                                     On her gentle pouting lips                                     Love hath…

EGV1_sharp_norland

XML     PDF THE NORLAND WIND The Database of Ornament                                     The south wind on the hill                                        And the west wind on the sea —                                    But better…