Fall. Grocott's Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?

Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?.

Fall


I am not now in fortune’s power,— He that is down can fall no lower. Butler.—Hudibras, Part I. Canto III. Line 877.	1
A brave man struggling in the storms of fate, And greatly falling with a falling state. Pope.—Prol. to Addison’s Cato, Line 21.	2
What a falling off was there! Shakespeare.—Hamlet, Act I. Scene 5. (The Ghost to Hamlet on his mother’s marriage.)	3
O, what a fall was there, my countrymen! Shakespeare.—Julius Cæsar, Act III. Scene 2. (Antony to the Citizens.)	4
Those hands were joined with mine, to raise the wall Of tottering Troy, now nodding to her fall. Dryden.—Ovid’s Meta. Book XII.; The Æneid, Book II.; Pope—Essay on Man, Epi. IV.; Homer—Book II. Line 17; Dr. Johnson—Irene; Gray—Ruins at Kingsgate; Stepney—Ode IX.; Scott—Last Minstrel, Canto VI.	5