Nashe

British  

/ næʃ /

noun

1. Thomas. 1567–1601, English pamphleteer, satirist, and novelist, author of the first picaresque novel in English, The Unfortunate Traveller, or the Life of Jack Wilton (1594)

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Example Sentences

“Beauty is but a flower / which wrinkles will devour / Brightness falls from the air / Queens have died young and fair,” Thomas Nashe wrote in his 1593 plague poem “In Time of Pestilence.”

From New York Times • Apr. 24, 2020

Nashe said in 2009, when GTL began talking to prison staff about their tablet idea, people were skeptical.

From Washington Times • May 13, 2017

“You could have Peele, Nashe, anybody else as a dumping ground,” Eric Rasmussen, who co-edited the R.S.C. editions of Shakespeare’s complete works and his collaborative plays, told me over the phone.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 19, 2017

And remember, too, that one of the enduring traditions of British journalism – from Thomas Nashe to Bernard Levin and even the incredible spouting Littlejohn – is vulgar abuse.

From The Guardian • Aug. 7, 2010

He was a scholar, the friend of Raleigh and of Nashe, the most brilliant and educated of the Cambridge wits.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt