 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1861 - 570 pages
...to moralize with Hamlet, and to ask — " where be your gibes now ? your gambols ? your songs ? your flashes of merriment that were wont to set the table in a roar" ? But the grave of Thomas Hood is not the grave of Soo Ante, vol. jxvii., pp. .1, 34. 1SG1.] Thomas... | |
 | 1862 - 460 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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1862 - 880 pages
...a merry man. One thinks of Yorick — ' Where be your gibes now P your gambols P your songs P your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table in a roar P ' We may well apply to Sterne — since he applied them to himself — the mournful words, ' AJas,... | |
 | Adam and Charles Black (Firm) - 1863 - 450 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... | |
 | Charles Cowden Clarke - 1863 - 546 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 at your grinning ? quite chapfallen ? — Now get you to my lady's chamber... | |
 | 1863 - 1076 pages
...perhaps with a tear, we thought of the man we had loved, with all his gibes, his gambols, his songs, his flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table in a roar ; and also of the friends and companions of our early youth. Many of them still survive; one gained... | |
 | 1864 - 974 pages
...fancy." Did fun-loving Paris ask, " Where be your gibes now? — your gambols? — -your songs? — your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table in a roar ?" — or did it think enough was done when it provided for the singing of the song, — " Oh. a pit... | |
 | Frank Fowler - 1864 - 288 pages
...mournfully apt appear to us the words :— ' Where be your gibes now ? Your gambols ? your songs ? your flashes of merriment that were wont to set the table in a roar ?' Oh! my friends, is it with you, as with me, that the death of the humourist seems to leave a sadder... | |
 | 1865 - 1022 pages
...mocking his "infinite jest and a most excellent fancy ;" converting into a succession of sobs those "flashes of merriment that were wont to set the table in a roar." At the time when nearly every drawingroom, attic, and kitchen — when every class and order of society... | |
 | Mrs. Henry Wood, Charles William Wood - 1876 - 548 pages
...cast over the revellers' banquet, a few smooth words are spoken about the gibes and gambols and songs and flashes of merriment that were wont to set the table in a roar ; then, as of course, the claret goes round, and Lord March resumes his remarks on the merits of a... | |
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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? 
