 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 345by DANIEL WEBSTER - 1853Full view - About this book
 | Marguerite Countess of Blessington - 1851 - 254 pages
...it the respectability of wedlock. It is painful (said Byron) to find oneself growing old without — That which should accompany old age, As honor, love, obedience, troops of friends. I feel this keenly, reckless as I appear, though there are few to whom I would avow it, and certainly... | |
 | Danvers (Mass.) - Danvers (Mass.) - 1852 - 244 pages
...our venerable townsman still survives, the ornament and pride of a large circle, surrounded by all which should accompany old age, As honor, love, obedience, troops of friends," and that the proud regards of his fellow-citzens may well join in the prayer of private affection,... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - Children - 1853 - 344 pages
...daughter ! " I have lived long enough : my way of life Is fallen into the sear, the yellow leaf: And that which should accompany old age, As honor, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have. A very great portion of this globe is covered with water, which is called... | |
 | Boston (Mass.), George Stillman Hillard - 1853 - 298 pages
...stripe erased or polluted, or a star obscured." And thus this great man departed. Surrounded by all — that -which should accompany old age, As honor, love, obedience, troops of friends. His last words still echo in our ears, as they will echo in the ears of other generations of men, long... | |
 | Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire - Cheshire (England) - 1856 - 374 pages
...flowing. " I have lived long enough. My way of life Is fii.1 leu to the sear and yellow leaf ; And that which should accompany old age, As honor, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have." While Macbeth thus exhibits a consciousness of the excellence of doing rightly,... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1856 - 660 pages
...braggart with my tongue ! Act v. Sc. 3. My way of life Is fallen into the 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 their stead, Curses, not loud, but deep, mouth-honor, breath, Which... | |
 | 1856 - 204 pages
...but just as be has always wished to die, in a comparatively sound, active, pleasant old age, with " That which should accompany old age « As honor, love, obedience, troops of friends," , enjoying and being enjoyed by his friends to a greater degree, perhaps, than ever before. He was... | |
 | Cheshire (England) - 1857 - 820 pages
...found flowing. " I have lived long enough. My way of life Is fallen to the sear and yellow leaf ; And that which should accompany old age, As honor, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have." While Macbeth thus exhibits a consciousness of the excellence of doing rightly,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1857 - 394 pages
...disseat me now. 1 have lived long enough : my way of life Is fallen into the sear,1 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 - 1857 - 630 pages
...disseat me now. 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 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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