 | Steven H. Gale - 1996 - 690 pages
...whose skull he addresses as "a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy." Yorick's "gibes," "gambols," and "flashes of merriment" that "were wont to set the table on a roar" are reborn in the prince. Humor is his way of warding off insanity, the condition to which,... | |
 | Alan B. Howes - 2002 - 513 pages
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 | P.G. Wodehouse - 2003 - 280 pages
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 | Bernie Babcock - 2007 - 316 pages
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 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1847 - 556 pages
...pick up such anecdotica! strays and waifs as may, perchance, have escaped the knowledge, or Ьavе been deemed hardly worth the gathering, of other and...merriment " that were wont to set the table in a roar." lu these moods he would freely communicate any little adventure in which he had been concerned, even... | |
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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? 
