readenglishbook.com » Henry Nicholson Ellacombe

author - "Henry Nicholson Ellacombe"

Here you can read the author's books for free - author - "Henry Nicholson Ellacombe". You can also read full versions online without registration and SMS at read-e-book.com or read the summary, preface (abstract), description and read reviews (comments).

is "Britannia's Pastorals."[4:1] Perhaps the most noteworthy plant omitted is Tobacco--Shakespeare must have been well acquainted with it, not only as every one in his day knew of it, but as a friend and companion of Ben Jonson, he must often have been in the company of smokers. Ben Jonson has frequent allusions to it, and almost all the sixteenth-century writers have something to say about it; but Shakespeare never names the herb, or alludes to it in any way whatever. [4:2] It seems

is "Britannia's Pastorals."[4:1] Perhaps the most noteworthy plant omitted is Tobacco--Shakespeare must have been well acquainted with it, not only as every one in his day knew of it, but as a friend and companion of Ben Jonson, he must often have been in the company of smokers. Ben Jonson has frequent allusions to it, and almost all the sixteenth-century writers have something to say about it; but Shakespeare never names the herb, or alludes to it in any way whatever. [4:2] It seems