...to leave ; and it is only when deserted by friends, that we can say in the words of the poet, — " I have liv'd long enough ; my way of life Is fall'n into the sear — the yellow leaf." In speaking of others it is common to regard life as properly terminating when usefulness, activity,...

...come, come, give me your hand; What's done, cannot be undone: To bed, to bed, to bed. DESPISED OLD AGE. I have liv'd 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...

...When I behold — Seyton, I say ! — This push Will cheer me ever, or disseat me now. 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 ;...

...tells "I am conqueror of myself." (IV.xiv.55-62) And Macbeth's self-condemnation is saddest of all: My way 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,...

...prefer old age to the alternative. Maurice Chevalier (1888-1972) French singer, actor 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. Macbeth,...

...Seyton! -I am sick at heart When I behold — Seyton, I say!— This push Will cheer me ever, or disseat me now. I have liv'd long enough: my way 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...

...wants. Macbeth's lament at the end of his reign might have been written to illustrate Aristotle's point: I have liv'd 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,...

...lament at the end of his reign might 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 accompany old age, As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have; but,...

...Shakespeare's striking but conventional 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 accompany old age. As honor, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have. 26...

...after the wrong things. I thought about Macbeth and remembered what for me are his most moving lines: My way 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,...