Umbrellas And Their History
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Ben Jonson, too, once mentions it (date 1616), speaking of a mishapwhich befel a lady at the Spanish Court:-- "And there she lay, flat spread as an umbrella. "--_The Devil is an Ass_, Act iv. , SC. I.
Of the fact that Umbrellas' were known and used in Italy long priorto their introduction into France, we find a confirmation in oldMontaigne, who observes, _lib_. Iii. _cap_. Ix. :--"LesOmbrelles, de quoy depuis les anciens Remains l'Italie se sert, chargent plus le bras, qu'ils ne deschargent la ...teste. " Kersey's Dictionary (1708) describes an Umbrella as a "screencommonly used by women to keep off rain. " The absence of almost all allusion to the Umbrella by the wits ofthe seventeenth century, while the muff, fan, &c. , receive so large ashare of attention, is a further proof that it was far from beingrecognised as an article of convenient luxury at that day. Theclumsy shape, probably, prevented its being generally used. In one ofDryden's plays we find the line:-- "I can carry your umbrella and fan, your Ladyship.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Ben Jonson, too, once mentions it (date 1616), speaking of a mishapwhich befel a lady at the Spanish Court:-- "And there she lay, flat spread as an umbrella. "--_The Devil is an Ass_, Act iv. , SC. I.
Of the fact that Umbrellas' were known and used in Italy long priorto their introduction into France, we find a confirmation in oldMontaigne, who observes, _lib_. Iii. _cap_. Ix. :--"LesOmbrelles, de quoy depuis les anciens Remains l'Italie se sert, chargent plus le bras, qu'ils ne deschargent la ...teste. " Kersey's Dictionary (1708) describes an Umbrella as a "screencommonly used by women to keep off rain. " The absence of almost all allusion to the Umbrella by the wits ofthe seventeenth century, while the muff, fan, &c. , receive so large ashare of attention, is a further proof that it was far from beingrecognised as an article of convenient luxury at that day. Theclumsy shape, probably, prevented its being generally used. In one ofDryden's plays we find the line:-- "I can carry your umbrella and fan, your Ladyship.
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