 | George Ross - 1867 - 194 pages
...humour ! What bickerings of fun ! what sparkles of fancy ! what a jubilation of joke and repartee ! what flashes of merriment that were wont to set the table in a roar ! " What things have we seen " (says Beaumont) " Done at the Mermaid ; heard words that have been So... | |
 | Nathaniel Holmes Morison - English language - 1867 - 206 pages
...at the end of them all, is sufficient; as, Where are your gibes now; your gambols; your songs; your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table in a roar? REMAKE 3.—A note of interrogation is placed immediately after a question which introduces a quotation... | |
 | Law - 1892 - 554 pages
...Edwards' book was made up in large part by contributions from lawyers and their "gibes," and their " flashes of merriment that were wont to set the table in a roar," furnished to him. The coincidence is also substantially mentioned in " Bench and Bar," written by Mr.... | |
 | Adam and Charles Black (Firm) - Greater London (England) - 1870 - 530 pages
...away with their host, and that host's son. " Where be your gibes now ? your gambols, your songs, your flashes of merriment that were wont to set the table in a roar ?" The property has gone into the hands of another family, and the time prognosticated by Sir Walter... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - Artists - 1871 - 532 pages
..."daily toil for daily bread." A skeleton stood ever beside his bed, mocking his " infinite jest and most excellent fancy;" converting into a succession...merry and happy by the brilliant fancies and genuine humour of Thomas Hood, he was enduring pain of body and anguish of mind. Nearly all his quaint conceits,... | |
 | John Wilson - English language - 1871 - 364 pages
...suns and centres of planetary systems ? Where be your gibes now ; your gambols ; your songs ; your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table in a roar? Are you conscious of a like increase in wisdom, — in pure endeavors to make yourself and other men... | |
 | Julian Charles Young - Actors - 1871 - 518 pages
...fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. Where be his jibes now? his gambols ? his songs ? his flashes of merriment that were wont to set the table in a roar ? It will be long ere one will arise fit to tread in his shoes. In wit he was inferior to Theodore... | |
 | John Wilson - Abbreviations, English - 1871 - 362 pages
...suns and centres of planetary systems ? Where be your gibes now; your gambols; your songs; yonr Dashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table in a roar? Are you conscious of a like increase in wisdom, — in pure endeavors to make yourself and other men... | |
 | Alexander Reid - 1872 - 200 pages
...those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be his gibes now ? his gambols ? his songs? his flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table in a roar ? I knew him, Horatio; a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy; he hath borne me on his... | |
 | Charles Jewett - Temperance - 1872 - 420 pages
...Hamlet to the skull of poor Yorick : — " Where be your gibes now ? your Gambols ? your songs ? your flashes of merriment That were wont to set the table in a roar ? . . . . . . Quite chapfallen." I looked upon the strong oak casks, some of them iron bound, and thought... | |
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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? 
