Good housewives all the winter's rage despise,
Defended by the riding-hood's disguise;
Or, underneath the umbrella's oily shade,
Safe through the wet on clinking pattens tread,
Let Persian dames the unbrella's ribs display,
To guard their beauties from the sunny ray;
Or sweating slaves support the shady load,
When eastern monarchs show their state abroad;
Britain in winter only knows its aid,
To guard from chilling showers the walking maid.
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Of doues I haue a dainty paire
Which, when you please to take the aier,
About your read more
Of doues I haue a dainty paire
Which, when you please to take the aier,
About your head shall gently houer,
Your cleere browe from the sunne to couer,
And with their nimble wings shall fan you
That neither cold nor heate shall tan you,
And like umbrellas, with their feathers
Sheeld you in all sorts of weathers.
The tucked-up sempstress walks hasty strides,
While streams run down her oil'd umbrella's sides.
The tucked-up sempstress walks hasty strides,
While streams run down her oil'd umbrella's sides.
Let a smile be your umbrella, and you'll end up with a face full of rain.
Let a smile be your umbrella, and you'll end up with a face full of rain.
When my water-proof umbrella proved a sieve, sieve, sieve,
When my shiny new umbrella proved a sieve.
When my water-proof umbrella proved a sieve, sieve, sieve,
When my shiny new umbrella proved a sieve.
Life with Mary was like being in a telephone booth with an open umbrella no matter which way you turned, read more
Life with Mary was like being in a telephone booth with an open umbrella no matter which way you turned, you got it in the eye.
See, here's a shadow found; the human nature
Is made th' umbrella to the Deity,
To catch read more
See, here's a shadow found; the human nature
Is made th' umbrella to the Deity,
To catch the sunbeams of thy just Creator;
Beneath this covert thou may'st safely lie.
The inseparable gold umbrella which in that country [Burma] as
much denotes the grandee as the star or garter read more
The inseparable gold umbrella which in that country [Burma] as
much denotes the grandee as the star or garter does in England.
The American people never carry an umbrella. They prepare to walk in eternal sunshine.
The American people never carry an umbrella. They prepare to walk in eternal sunshine.
Umbrellas, like faces, acquire a certain sympathy with the
individual who carries them. . . . May it not read more
Umbrellas, like faces, acquire a certain sympathy with the
individual who carries them. . . . May it not be said of the
bearers of these inappropriate umbrellas, that they go about the
streets "with a lie in their right hand?" . . . Except in a very
few cases of hypocrisy joined to a powerful intellect, men, not
by nature, umbrellarians, have tried again and again to become so
by art, and yet have failed--have expended their patrimony in the
purchase of umbrella after umbrella, and yet have systematically
lost them, and have finally, with contrite spirits and strunken
purses, given up their vain struggle, and relied on theft and
borrowing for the remainder of their lives.
