Chapter FAIL to FALL of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

Ever note, Lucilius,
When love begins to sicken and decay,
It useth an enforced ceremony.
There are no tricks in plain and simple faith.

Shakespeare.—Julius Cæsar, Act IV. Scene 2.(Brutus to Lucilius.)

There is no more faith in thee than in a stewed prune.

Shakespeare.—King Henry IV. Part I. Act III. Scene 3. (Falstaff to the Hostess.)

On argument alone my faith is built.

Young.—Night IV. Line 742.

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.

A brave man struggling in the storms of fate,
And greatly falling with a falling state.

Pope.—Prol. to Addison’s Cato, Line 21.

What a falling off was there!

Shakespeare.—Hamlet, Act I. Scene 5. (The Ghost to Hamlet on his mother’s marriage.)

FALL.—O, what a fall was there, my countrymen!

Shakespeare.—Julius Cæsar, Act III. Scene 2. (Antony to the Citzens.)

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.