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

This assumption made it common for editors to palm off parts of the “Henry VI” plays, which have often been deemed crude and faulty, on other playwrights, like Thomas Nashe or George Peele.

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