...mellowness doth set On the green promises of youthful heat. Cato Major, Pt. IV. SIR J. DENHAM. My May of life Is fallen into the sear, the yellow leaf ;...mouth-honor, breath, Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not. Macbeth, Act v. Sc. 3. SHAKESPEARE. What is the worst of woes that wait on age ? What...

...this push3 Will chair 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...mouth-honor, breath, Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not. Seyton ! Enter SEYTON. Seyton. What is your gracious pleasure ? Macbeth. What news more...

...hence. [Exit Servant. Seyton! — I am sick at heart, When I behold — Seyton, I stay! — This push 20 Will cheer me ever, or disseat me now. I have lived...mouth-honor, breath, Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not. Seyton ! Enter SEYTON. Sey. What is your gracious pleasure? Macb. What news more? 30...

...mind against all that is good ; to a man who said of himself: "My way of life Is fallen 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." I know that many a modest and deserving young man is ready to despair, saying to himself:...

...say!—This push 20 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...mouth-honor, breath, Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not. Seyton! Enter SEYTON Sey. What is your gracious pleasure? Macb. What news more? 30 Macb....

...less, And, to deal plainly, I fear I am not in my perfect mind. King Lear. Act IV. Sc. 7. L. 59. 5 LLINS — Ode on the Passions. L. 29. 22 Hope! of...enter here DANTE — Inferno. III. 1. 9. 24 Senza spe and dare not. Macbeth. ActV. Sc. 3. L. 22. e Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency...

...cheer me ever, or disseat me now. I have 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. Seyton ! To no other dramatist but Shakespeare did nature reveal these climaxes of antiphonal...

...we destroy, Than, by destruction, dwell in doubtful joy. And then follow Macbeth 's terrible words : I have lived long enough. My way of life Is fallen...have; but, in their stead, Curses, not loud, but deep. To me, the play is like an overwhelming Greek tragedy ; for you see the power of woman over man —...

...and Capell conj., adopted by Steevens; F. 1, "ditI have lived long enough : my way of life Is f all'n into the sear, the yellow leaf, And that which should...mouth-honor, breath, Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not. Seyton! Enter Seyton. Sey. What 's your gracious pleasure? Macb. What news more? 30 Sey....

...passage, at the end of the play, where he is contemplating his own deserted state: — •I have liv'd long enough; my way of life Is fallen into the sear,...Which the poor heart would fain deny, but dare not. 186 Especially characteristic here of the poet seems to me the pause on the Idea of curses, to realize...