 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,...  Select plays [5 plays], with notes and an intr. to each play and a life of ... - Page 63by William Shakespeare - 1848Full view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - 1994 - 268 pages
...would like this because they were his sentiments. ) Will cheer me ever, or disseat me now. I have lived long enough. My way of life Is fallen into the sear,...would fain deny, and dare not. Seyton! Enter SEYTON SEYTON What's your gracious pleasure? MACBETH What news more? so SEYTON All is confirmed my lord, which... | |
 | Suzanne Stern-Gillet - 1995 - 248 pages
...have been written to illustrate 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...Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not. 85 These lines express not so much remorse as the belated and bitter realization that wrongful deeds... | |
 | Stanley Wells - 1997 - 438 pages
...vision of despair 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...mouth-honour, breath Which the poor heart would fain deny but dare not. (5.3.24-30) Macbeth has, as he says, 'supped full with horrors' (5.5.13); he is scarcely... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2001 - 514 pages
...sce^e in England, with the eloquent description of Scotland's miseries. ACTV.SC. iii.] MACBETH. 271 I must not look to have , but, in their stead, Curses,...What's your gracious pleasure ? Macb. What news more ? 30 Sey. All is confirm'd, my lord, which was reported. Macb. I'll fight, till from my bones my flesh... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2002 - 244 pages
...saucy doubts and fears. Macbeth — Macbeth III.iv I have liv'd long enough: my way of life Is fall'n into the sear, the yellow leaf; And that which should...Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not. Macbeth — Macbeth V.iii I have fled myself; and have instructed cowards To run and show their shoulders.... | |
 | G. Wilson Knight - 2002 - 396 pages
...passages of a sublimely confessional, yet unrepentant, tone: My way of life Is fall'n into the sere, the yellow leaf; And that which should accompany old...Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not. (v. iii. 22) Then, later, even more famous: She should have died hereafter. There would have been a... | |
 | Mary Ann McGrail - 2002 - 200 pages
...cheer me ever, or disseat me now. I have liv'd long enough: my way of life Is fall'n into the sere, the yellow leaf; And that which should accompany old...Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not. (V.iii.20-28) The way of life he has led is the life of a man who dies young, not the way of life of... | |
 | George Wilson Knight - 2002 - 396 pages
...selfknowledge, attains grace. He knows that he must forfeit 'honour' and all things of concord and life: . . . that which should accompany old age, As honour, love,...Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not. (v. iii. 24) 1 This opposition of 'grace' and 'evil' I have already observed in The Wheel of Fire.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2003 - 60 pages
...suddenly changes. I am sick at heart... I have lived long enough. My way of life Isfall'n into the sere, the yellow leaf, And that which should accompany old...Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not. I'm so tired. I've had enough. It's all over. Everything's turned rotten. I have none of the things... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Dinah Jurksaitis - 2003 - 156 pages
...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,...would fain deny, and dare not. Seyton! Enter SEYTON SEYTON What's your gracious pleasure? MACBETH What news more? 30 SEYTON All is confirmed, my lord,... | |
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