And that which should accompany old age, As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have ; but, in their stead, Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour, breath, Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not. The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Page 442by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904Full view - About this book
| William Shakespeare - 1826 - 514 pages
...me now. I have liv'd long enough : my way of life 4 Is fall'n into the sear 5, the yellow leaf: And that which should accompany old age, As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have ; but, in their stead, Curses, not loud, but deep, mouth-honour, breath, Which... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1826 - 460 pages
...I wait the sharpest blow.' Pericles, i. e. for life or death. ' Is there no other way of mercy, And that which should accompany old age, As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have; but, in their stead, Curses, not loud, but deep, mouth-honour, breath, Which... | |
| William Pitt Scargill - 1827 - 344 pages
...passage : — t( 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 I must not look to have ; but, in their stead, Curses, not loud, but deep, mouth-honour, breath, Which... | |
| Robert Plumer Ward - 1827 - 340 pages
...like the same tyrant, he felt that his May of life had fallen into " The sear and yellow leaf, And that which should accompany old age, As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, He must not look to have." This made him wretched, and the longer he lived the more sullen and morose... | |
| M A Scargill - 1827 - 1016 pages
...passage : — " I bave lived long enough : my way of lift Ii fall'n into the tear, the yellow leaf: And that which should accompany old age, As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends I must not look to have ; but, in their stead, Curses, not loud, but deep, ruouth-honuur, breath, Which... | |
| Robert Plumer Ward - 1827 - 422 pages
...like the same tyrant, he felt that his May of life had fallen into uE " The sear and yellow leaf, And that which should accompany old age, As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, He must not look to have.'' This made him wretched, and the longer he lived the more sullen and morose... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1828 - 390 pages
...disseat me now. I have liv'd 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, I must not look to have ; but, in their stead, Curses, not loud, but deep, mouth -honourbreath, Which... | |
| Charles A. Somerset - 1829 - 60 pages
...share than ever fell to the lot of human being. — A splendid retirement was before him ; — "And that which should accompany old age, As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends." With what emotions must he have revisited that sacred pile, the last object where he might have fondly... | |
| 1829 - 720 pages
...senectus" is ours, and that, as we have grown in years, we have increased in wisdom. And have we not " that which should accompany old age, As honour, love, obedience, TROOPS OF FRIENDS ?" Bear ye witness, our present emotions, we have ; — and we acknowledge these blessings with feelings... | |
| William Shakespeare, George Steevens - 1829 - 506 pages
...disseat me now. I have liv'd 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, I must not look to have ; but, in their stead. Curses, not loud, but deep, mouth-honour, breath, Which... | |
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