Author: Robertson Davies

Cites

• Tho. Overskou (1)
  • IN: Fifth Business (1970) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Those roles which, being neither those of Hero nor Heroine, Confidante nor Villain, but which were nonetheless essential to bring about the Recognition or the denouement, were called the Fifth Business in drama and opera companies organized according to the old style; the player who acted these parts was often referred to as Fifth Business.
    FROM: Den Danske Skueplads, (1970), NULL, Netherlands
• NULL (1)
  • IN: Leaven of Malice (1954) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Grant us so to put away the leaven of malice and wickedness that we may always serve Thee in pureness of living and truth
    FROM: The Prayer Book, (1662), Book, NULL
• Robert Burton (1)
  • IN: The Cunning Man (1996) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Cunning man, wizards, and white wtiches, as they call them, in every village, which, if they sought unto, they will help almost all infirmities of body and mind... The body's mischiefs, as Plato proves, proceed from the soul: and if the mind be not first satisfied, the body can never be cured.
    FROM: The Anatomy of Melancholy, (1621), Book, UK