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单词 how are the mighty fallen!
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how are the mighty fallen!
b. Proverbial phrase. how are the mighty fallen! and variants [quoting or echoing David's lament over Saul and Jonathan in 2 Samuel 1:19–27] .
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1539 Bible (Great) 2 Sam. i. 19 Oh howe are the myghtie ouerthrowen.
1611 Bible (King James) 2 Sam. i. 19 The beauty of Israel is slaine vpon thy high places: how are the mightie fallen! View more context for this quotation
1727 W. Somervile Occas. Poems 81 Prostrate on Earth the bleeding Warrior lies, And Israel's Beauty on the Mountains dies; How are the Mighty fallen!
1787 Pennsylvania Gaz. 17 Oct. 2/3 America held a most elevated rank among the powers of the earth; but how are the mighty fallen! disgraced have we rendered ourselves abroad, and ruined at home.
1794 Pennsylvania Gaz. 19 Nov. 1/1 At that time a nod from David Bradford was sufficient to destroy a man or his property—he now, from the latest accounts, is wandering the banks of the Ohio, with only a single domestic. How are the mighty fallen!
1824 C. G. Garnett Night before Bridal 197 How are the mighty fallen!—in yon grove Where droop the clusters of the pliant vine,..The hordes of Elb their giant limbs recline.
1848 C. Dickens Dombey & Son lix. 589How are the mighty fallen!’ remarks Cook. ‘Pride shall have a fall, and it always was and will be so!’ observes the housemaid.
1891 T. Hardy Tess of the D'Urbervilles I. i. 8 Your family consisted of numerous branches... ‘How are the mighty fallen’.
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xii. [Cyclops] 280 How are the mighty fallen! Collector of bad and doubtful debts.
1977 New Musical Express 12 Feb. 17/1 How the mighty are fallen. Shel Talony..is reduced to dealing with a non-voice churning out four mock country toons for a 99p line.
1985 B. Zephaniah Dread Affair 18 Leroy stood next to a wall This is how the mighty fall.
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