...use of metaphor in these famous lines from Macbeth: I have UVd long enough: my way of life Is fall'n into the sear, the yellow leaf, And that which should...obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have. 26 Quoted in isolation, as here, the metaphor in these lines is essentially illustrative, its potential...

...mournful plaint of Macbeth, when crowned with all he grasped at, 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...

...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...have, but in their stead Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour, breath Which the poor heart would fain deny but dare not. (5.3.24-30) Macbeth has, as...

...all but Seyton, by which time he has . . . liv'd long enough: my way of life Is fall'n into the sere, the yellow leaf, And that which should accompany old...mouth-honor, breath, Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not. (5.3.22-28) There is no mention of the unique solace of children, here, and the prospect...

...cheer me ever, or disseat me now. I have lived long enough. My way of life 25 Is fall'n into the sere, the yellow leaf, And that which should accompany old...stead, Curses not loud but deep, mouth-honor, breath, 30 Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not. Seyton! Enter Seyton. SEYTON What's your gracious...

...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...obedience, troops of friends, / I must not look to have." "My grandfather's death was marked by courage and simple dignity," Geoffrey Bret Harte reminisced forty...

...and helped him out of the horse-trough. He slumped against it as if he had lost the use of his legs. "And that which should accompany old age, as honor,...love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look ..." and then he was asleep: a deep rich wet snoring in-suck of breath. Flinn looked up at Abe. "Don't...

...'honour' and all things of concord and life: . . . that which should accompany old age, As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look...have; but, in their stead, Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour, breath, Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not. (v. iii. 24) 1 This opposition...

...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...have; but, in their stead, Curses, not loud, but deep, mouth-honour, breath, Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not. (v. iii. 22) Then, later,...

...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...have; but, in their stead, Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour, breath, Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not. Macbeth — Macbeth V.iii...