dots-menu
×

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

Catastrophe

So! so! here’s fine work!—here’s fine suicide, parricide, and simulation, going on in the fields! and Sir Anthony not to be found to prevent the antistrophe!
Sheridan.—The Rivals, Act V. Scene 1.

I’ll tickle his catastrophe for this.
Anonymous.—The Merry Devil of Edmonton.