...a state of lingering, hopeless, incurable anguish and despair? Truly, alas! may I exclaim, — " ' 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 honour, love, obedience, troops of friends,...

...There is no passage in Shakspeare on which more has been written than the following one in Macbeth : " I have lived long enough, my way of life " Is fallen into the sere, the yellow leaf," &c. For way of life Johnson would read May of life; in which he is followed...

...that of the murdered DUNCAN. " Duncan k in his grave. After life's fitful fever he sleeps well," &c. " My way of life Is fallen into the sear and yellow leaf," &c. Hence that scarce unwilling pity •which we afford him, abated only, not extinguished, by the...

...of the murdered DUNCAN. " Duncan is in his grave, After life's fitful fever he sleeps well," &c. " My way of life Is fallen into the sear and yellow leaf," &c. Hence that scarce unwilling pity which we afford him, abated only, not extinguished, by the recollection...

...loved to call her, "his incomparable little nurse." And with his ever ready, indefatiga ' I have liv'd long enough, my way of life ' Is fallen into the sear...* And that which should accompany old age, • As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends,* I have. " My sister R , who is here, has read your Memoirs...

...as the storm gathers round it; but fear is the common companion of 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...

...inhabitant of a barren country, against those who have more opportunities of luxury. NOTE XLII. Macbeth. I have lived long enough : my way of life Is fallen into the sear, thu yellow leaf. Ae there is no relation between the «w/ of life, ana fallen into the scar, I nm inclined...

...deny, and dare not." And this continued, till, like the same tyrant, he felt that his May of life had fallen into " The sear and yellow leaf, And that which should accompany old age, As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, He must not look to have." This made him wretched, and...

...not." And this continued, till, like the same tyrant, he felt that his May of life had fallen into uE " The sear and yellow leaf, And that which should accompany old age, As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, He must not look to have.'' This made him wretched, and...

...time, the forlorn decadence of unprincipled humanity, is hushed with pity before the desolate Jinale : I have lived long enough; my way of life Is fallen into the sere and yellow leaf: Ami that which should accompany old age, As honour, love, obedience, troops of...