| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
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