 | Mrs. Hemans - 1840 - 376 pages
...the golden sunset of a long bright day, calmly drawing towards its close, in the fullest enjoyment of "That which should accompany old age, As Honour, Love, Obedience, troops of friends ;" amongst which friends none were more favoured or more attached than Mrs. Hemans herself. " I cannot... | |
 | Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans - 1840 - 378 pages
...the golden sunset of a long bright day, calmly drawing towards its close, in the fullest enjoyment of "That which should accompany old age, As Honour, Love, Obedience, troops of friends ;" amongst which friends none were more favoured or more attached than Mrs. Hemans herself. " I cannot... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1997 - 308 pages
...cheer me ever or disseat me now. I have lived long enough. My way of life Is fall'n into the sere, the yellow leaf, And that which should accompany old...age, As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, 25 I must not look to have; but in their stead, Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour, breath Which... | |
 | Michael O'Brien - 1993 - 484 pages
...Catharine, eight. 8. Edwin Summers Hilliard and Mary Hardeman Hilliard, who both died in infancy. 9. "I have lived long enough: my way of life / Is fall'n into the sear, the yellow leaf" (Shakespeare, Macbeth 4.3.22-23). 10. In the story of Lazarus: "And it came to pass, that the beggar... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 pages
...breed unnatural troubles; infected minds To their deaf pillows will discharge their secrets. 10371 onnie 10372 Macbeth I have supped full with horrors; Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts, Cannot... | |
 | John Galsworthy - 1999 - 916 pages
...controlling the election of its Member of Parliament. chetif: puny. 624 sear and yellow. 'I have liv'd long enough: my way of life) Is fall'n into the sear, the yellow leaf.'; Macbeth, \. iii. 22-3. Macbeth has just learned of the arrival of the English force before Dunsinane... | |
 | Thomas Hardy - 1999 - 468 pages
...leaf. Shakespeare's Macbeth soliloquizes about his intimations of futility and decline: I have liv'd long enough: my way of life Is fall'n into the sear, the yellow leaf . . . (V.iii.22 3) This final framing of the narrative in the distant past recalls the conclusion of... | |
 | Gary Scharnhorst - 2000 - 284 pages
...letter. The grasshopper is indeed a burden!" He borrowed the quoted phrase from Shakespeare's Macbeth: "My way of life / Is fall'n into the sear, the yellow...leaf/ And that which should accompany old age, / As honor, love, obedience, troops of friends, / I must not look to have." "My grandfather's death was... | |
 | Orson Welles - 2001 - 342 pages
...Take thy face hence. (Exit Servant. The others remain on their knees.) Seyton! — I am sick at heart. I have lived long enough. My way of life Is fall'n...obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have. Seyton! (Still no answer. He turns to one of the kneeling figures.) How does your patient, doctor?... | |
 | British Academy - 2000 - 590 pages
...29-30). But I have of course missed out a line. That which Macbeth utters here so unforgettably is this: And that which should accompany old age. As honour,...obedience. troops of friends, I must not look to have; . . . From what an unearthly distance this man contemplates the things that might have made life worth... | |
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I have lived long enough : my way of life Is fall'n into the sear, the yellow leaf; And that which should accompany old age, As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends... 
