 And that which should accompany old age, As honor, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have; but, in their stead, Curses, not loud, but deep, mouth-honor, breath, Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not.  The Works of Daniel Webster ... - Page 397by Daniel Webster - 1853Full view - About this book
 | Laetitia Matilda Hawkins - 1811 - 436 pages
...the world. There are many very good people here ; but how many of the rest might say with Macbeth, ' That which should accompany old age, As honor, love, obedience, troops of friends I must not look to have!' But come, let us see what this groupe are doing ; they do not seem inclined... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...Despised Old Age. I have liv'd long enough : my way of life Is fall'n into <he sear, the yellow leaf: And that which should accompany old age, As honor, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have : but in Iheir stead, Curses, not loud, butdeep, mouth-honor.breath, Which... | |
 | Robert Huish - Nobility - 1818 - 904 pages
...offspring — pursuing the story of their happy lives long into the future — and promising themselves ' That which should accompany old age, As honor, love, obedience, troops of friends.' All these things we may well imagine to have been the subject-matter of their converse. And now, three... | |
 | Richard Lovell Edgeworth - 1819 - 524 pages
...blest. ' I have liv'd long enough, my way of life . 'Is fallen into the sear and yellow leaf; ' And that which should accompany old age, 'As honor, love, obedience, troops of friends/ I have. " My sister R~ — , who is here, has read your Memoirs of the Abbe Edgeworth with interest... | |
 | Elizabeth Fries Ellet - United States - 1819 - 376 pages
...continued industriously occupied in agricultural pursuits to a ripe old age, enjoying to the full " That which should accompany old age, As honor, love, obedience, troops of friends." Colonel Bratton died at his residence two miles south of Yorkville, now the seat of Mrs. Harriet Bratton... | |
 | Richard Lovell Edgeworth - 1820 - 544 pages
...blest. ' I have liv'd long enough, my way of life * Is fallen into the sear and yellow leaf; ' And that which should accompany old age, ' As honor, love, obedience, troops of friends,' I have. " My sister R , who is here, has read your Memoirs of the Abbe Edgeworth with interest and... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1877 - 844 pages
...placing his family and descendants in an eminent social position in their native city ; he was surrounded by " that which should accompany old age, as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends " ; and he had the satisfaction of holding his own, and triumphing over all the host of enemies, who... | |
 | Richard Henry Lee - United States - 1829 - 840 pages
...Macbeth : ' I have lived long enough : my way of life la fall'n into the sere, the yellow leaf ; - And that which should accompany old age, As honor, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have ; but in their Stcad Curses not loud, but deep ; month honor, breath, Which... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1836 - 570 pages
...disseat me now. I have lived long enough : my way of life Is fallen into the sear,5 the yellow leaf; And that which should accompany old age, As honor, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have ; but, in their stead, Curses, not loud, but deep, mouth-honor, breath, Which... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1839 - 568 pages
...disseat me now. I have lived long enough : my way of life Is fallen into the sear,5 the yellow leaf; And that which should accompany old age, As honor, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have ; but, in their stead, Curses, not loud, but deep, mouth-honor, breath, Which... | |
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