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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? "
Eclectic Magazine, and Monthly Edition of the Living Age - Page 122
1847
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The Wishing-cap Papers

Leigh Hunt - 1874 - 494 pages
...Yorick. I mean Hamlet's Yorick. Nobody who hears him in it will say,." Where be your gibes now? Your flashes of merriment that were wont to set the table in a roar?" Nobody who sees well into the stuff of it, will take it for any other than a Cap fit for the wisest...
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A Manual of Composition and Rhetoric: A Text-book for Schools and Colleges

John Seely Hart - 1874 - 412 pages
...interrogation point only at the end; as, "Where bo your gittes now; your gambols; your songs; your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table in a roar/' ' Here the clause italicized refers back to all four items, the "gibes," "gambols," "songs," and "flashes...
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Destiny: And Other Poems

George Bruce - 1876 - 642 pages
...that I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your jribes 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! — '[uite chap-fallen'? Now get you to my lady's chamber, and...
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A Book of Memories of Great Men and Women of the Age: From Personal Acquaintance

Samuel Carter Hall - 1889 - 516 pages
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Memorials of St. Michael's: The Old Parish Churchyard of Dumfries

William M'Dowall - 1876 - 472 pages
...infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. Where be your gibes now ? your gambols 1 your songs ? your flashes of merriment that were wont to set the table in a roar ?" Holm, the family house, is still to the fore, and thither Burns used often to direct his course...
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Diprose's Book of the Stage and the Players

John Diprose - 1877 - 308 pages
...Infinite Zest, Of most Exquisite Fancy. Alas ! where are his Gibes now ? His Gambols, his Songs, His flashes of Merriment That were wont to set the Table in a Roar ? -*.Not one, now, To mock his own Grinning ! We could have better spared a better man. He was one...
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A Book of Memories of Great Men and Women of the Age: From Personal Acquaintance

Samuel Carter Hall - 1877 - 522 pages
...mocking his " infinite jest and 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 drawing-room, attic and kitchen — when every class and order of society...
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McGuffey's New Sixth Eclectic Reader: Exercises in Rhetorical ..., Volume 6

William Holmes McGuffey - 1867 - 498 pages
...according to thy fear', so is thy wrath\ Where are your gibesv now? your gambols^ ? your songsv? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table in a roarv ? Thus saith the High and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; "I dwell in...
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The Christian messenger, Volume 13

1878 - 396 pages
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Darwin, Carlyle, Dickens, the Fools, Jesters, and Comic Characters in ...

Samuel Davey - 1879 - 302 pages
...lips that I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your jibes now ? your gambols ? your songs ? your flashes of merriment that were wont to set the table in a roar ? Quite chapfallen. Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her let her paint an inch thick, to...
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