“Oh, a consumption is worse than a Capius ad Ligatum: to nothing can I compare it better than to a reprieve after a man is condemned, or to a boy with his hose about his heels ready to be whipped, to whom his master stands preaching a long time all law and no gospel ereContinue reading “RKS Literature: Death by Consumption (Thomas Nasche)”
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RKS Literature: Two Types of Melancholy (Thomas Nasche)
“Of this melancholy there be two sorts: one that, digested by our liver, swimmeth like oil above water and that is rightly termed women’s melancholy; which lasteth but for an hour and is, as it were, but a copy of their countenance; the other sinketh down to the bottom of the lees of the wine,Continue reading “RKS Literature: Two Types of Melancholy (Thomas Nasche)”
RKS Literature: What are Dreams? (Thomas Nasche)
“A dream is nothing else but a bubbling scum or froth of the fancy; which the day hath left undigested; or an after feast made of the fragments of an idle imagination. A dream is nothing but an echo of our conceits in the day. In them all states, all sexes, all places are confoundedContinue reading “RKS Literature: What are Dreams? (Thomas Nasche)”
RKS Literature: The Devil: Master of Disguise! (Thomas Nasche)
“It will be demanded why in likeness of one’s father or mother, or kinsfolks, he often presents himself unto us. No other reason can be given of it but this, that in those shapes which he supposeth most familiar unto us, and that we are inclined to with a natural kind of love, we willContinue reading “RKS Literature: The Devil: Master of Disguise! (Thomas Nasche)”
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