 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Joseph Angus - 1865 - 686 pages
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 | 1866 - 812 pages
...upon them alone — months which, like poor Yorick's skull, suggest the gibes, the gambols, the songs, and "flashes of merriment that were wont to set the table in a roar." The hand, too, in which the curious read lines of fortune, deserves more than a closing paragraph.... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Nathaniel Holmes Morison - 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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.... | |
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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? 
