 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,...  The Quarterly Review - Page 4551818Full view - About this book
 | William Hazlitt - 1818 - 282 pages
...spirit ; and there was a fine ! melancholy retrospective tone in his manner of delivering the lines, My way of life Is fallen into the sear, the yellow leaf, which smote upon the heart, and remained there ever after. His Richard III. wanted that tempest and... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1820 - 272 pages
...offending Adam out of him. Henry V. Act I. Scene 1. I have lived long enough; 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, 1 must not look to have. Macbeth, Act V. Scene 3. TALE XIX. THE... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 486 pages
...departed friend." Dryden's Epistle to Congreve. Bo SWELL. 1 When YELLOW LEAVES, &c.] So, in Macbeth : " my way of life " Is fallen into the sear, the yellow leaf." STEEVENS. 3 Bare RUIN'D CHOIRS, where late the sweet birds sang.] The quarto has — " Bare ra'io'rfquiers,"... | |
 | 1822 - 424 pages
...said to be that of Northampton. CHAP. XII. . I have lived long enough : my way of life '] Is fall'u 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,... | |
 | 1824 - 572 pages
...too much familiarity. We were exquisitely pleased with his delivery of that beautiful soliloquy, " My way of life is fallen " into the sear, the yellow leaf;" and not less with the incredulity, astonishment, and rage which he simultaneously expressed, upon hearing... | |
 | 1853 - 640 pages
...guilt. Cromwell could say, — " I have lived 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... | |
 | 1823 - 440 pages
...terminate in prattling scandal and playing at quadrille with lady Bridget and lady Frances ! — Their 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, They must not look to have. " Surely, Mr. Fitz-Adam, the preventing... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 620 pages
...termiuate in prattling scandal, and playing at quadrille with Lady Bridget and Lady Frances ! -Their 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, The; must not look to have. ' Surely, Mr. Fitz-Adam, the preventing... | |
 | James Ferguson - 1823 - 424 pages
...prattling scandal, and playing at quadrille with Lady Uridgct and Lady Frances ! VOL. I. EE • Their 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, They must not look to have. Surely, Mr. Fitz-Adam, the preventing... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 788 pages
...terminate in prattling scandal and playing at quadrille with lady Bridget and lady Frances ! — Their 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, They must not look to have. " Surely, Mr. Fitz-Adam, the preventing... | |
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