 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, Thomas Price - 1839 - 478 pages
...friend, nor the world's law. 35— v. 1. 32 My May 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... | |
 | Miss Browne - 1839 - 314 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... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - 1839 - 374 pages
...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... | |
 | Clive Barker, Simon Trussler - 1992 - 100 pages
...despair must rely: I have liv'd long enough: my way of life Is fallen into the sere, 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... | |
 | Suzanne Stern-Gillet - 1995 - 248 pages
...Aristotle's point: I have UVd 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... | |
 | William Gilmore Simms - 1998 - 182 pages
...illustrates fully his experience — "My way of life Is fallen 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." Macbeth, my friends, was a person of very practical tendencies, with this... | |
 | Stanley Wells - 1997 - 438 pages
...that comes purely from the private world: 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, I must not look to have, but in their stead Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour, breath Which the... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 pages
...10371 Macbeth I have lived long enough: my way of life Is fall'n into the sear, the yellow leaf; And . I must not look to have. 10372 Macbeth I have supped full with horrors; Direness, familiar to my slaughterous... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2001 - 656 pages
...and which would have soothed his vanity, he sinks under the disappointment, and complains that: ' — that which should accompany old age As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends I must not look to have.' These blessings, so desirable to him, are widely different from the pursuits... | |
 | British Academy - 2000 - 590 pages
...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, love. obedience. troops of friends, I must not look to have; . . . From what an unearthly distance this man contemplates the things that... | |
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