 | English literature - 1847 - 524 pages
...sociable and hilarious, loved to unbend Apollo's bow, and to indulge in the gibes, and gambols, and flashes of merriment " that were wont to set the table in a roar." In these moods he would freely communicate 'any little adventure in which he had been concerned, even... | |
 | Sir William Forbes - 1824 - 462 pages
...been his lot to be exposed. And to all this he added a vein of delicate and peculiar humour, and " flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table in a roar." An intimate friendship between Mr. Arbuthnot and the author of these memoirs had commenced at an earlier... | |
 | James Boaden - Actors - 1825 - 650 pages
...to the last degree flat and unprofitable. " Where be your gibes now, your jests, your songs ? Vour flashes of merriment that were wont to set the table in a roar i Not one now!" . I have heard poor Hewerdine firing away from his sawcy rock-boat, upon that first... | |
 | English drama - 1826 - 508 pages
...lips that I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now ? your gambols ? your songs ? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table in a roar ? Not one now, to mock your own grinning? quite chap-fallen? Now get you to ray lady's chamber, and... | |
 | 1828 - 70 pages
...Up$4 that f have kissed I knmv not how ojt. Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table in a roar? Not one now, to mock your own grinning? quite chap-fallen? Now get yon to my lady's chamber, and tell... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 822 pages
...aim and very flaxh of it. Shahspeare. Where be your gibes now ? your gambols ? your songs ? у oar flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table in a roar ? /•/. By day and night he wrongs me j every hour il с flashes into one gross crime or other. That... | |
 | Samuel Foote - 1830 - 426 pages
...with distinguished reputation." " Alas, poor Yorick ! Where be your gambols — your songs — your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table in a roar ? Not one, now ! Alas, poor Yorick !" NOTES. THE Goodere fortune, about the division whereof the brothers... | |
 | 1849 - 522 pages
...how light-hearted they went their ways ! " Where be your gibes now ? your gambols ? your songs ? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table in a roar ? Not one now, to mock your own jeering ? Quite chap-fallen ? ' ' Mark the feverish eagerness with... | |
 | 1831 - 542 pages
...the roving meteors of the sky. Now, how changed the scene ! Ah Doctor, Doctor ! ' Where are now your flashes of merriment that were wont to set the table in a roar ? Not one left to mock your own grinning ! ' In the absence of Mr. Gower, the doctor's wit would enjoy... | |
 | Anniversary calendar - Almanacs, English - 1832 - 548 pages
...infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. Where be your jibes now ? your gambols ? your songs ? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table in a roar 1 not one, to mock your own griuning? quite chop- fallen ! Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell... | |
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Where be your gibes now ? your gambols ? your songs ? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table in a roar ? Not one now, to mock your own grinning? 
