| Robert Fergusson - 1773 - 344 ページ
...the paper. ON THE DEATH OF DR. TOSHACK OF PERTH. • A GREAT HUMOURIST. Where be those gibes, those flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table in a roar ? — Hamlet, Act V. THE Doctor dead! let old St. Johnston mourn; Let laughter's sons to sorrow's vot'ries... | |
| Monthly literary register - 1841 - 1092 ページ
...tumbler of the native, to use his own term for Irish whisky; but he is gone — we shall no longer have "his flashes of merriment that were wont to set the table in a roar." I should like, if possible, to commence the sketch with some account of his birth, but I could never... | |
| 1805 - 456 ページ
...have taken the liberty to bury him, his spirit yet remains amongst us. His gibes, his gambols, and his flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table in a roar, still exist, and here they are, in the shape of four duodecimo volumes. From this bundle of pleasantry,... | |
| 1805 - 608 ページ
...posterity with distinguish* ed reputation. " Alas, poor Yorick ! -Where be your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table in a roar ? Not one now ! Alas» poor Yorick !" Memoirs of the Life of Mr. Voltaire». SOME fix the birth of... | |
| Sir William Forbes - 1806 - 578 ページ
...been bis lot to be exposed. And to all this he added a vein of delicate and peculiar humour, and " flashes of merriment that were wont to set the table in a roar." An intimate friendship between Mr Arbuthnot and the author of these Memoirs had commenced at an earlier... | |
| Sir William Forbes, James Beattie - 1807 - 572 ページ
...been his lot to be exposed. And to all this he added a vein of delicate and peculiar humour, and " flashes of merriment that were wont to set the table in a roar." An intimate friendship between Mr Arbuthnot and the author of these Memoirs had commenced at an earlier... | |
| Sir William Forbes - 1807 - 408 ページ
...the present lord,) with whom he lived in this he added a vein of delicate and peculiar humour, and " flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table in a roar." An intimate friendship between Mr Arbuthnot and the author of these memoirs had commenced at an earlier... | |
| 1809 - 536 ページ
...drawn by bur rre.it hard: " a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy, 5 bos, gambols, and flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table in a roar." Admired as he was, however, for his iv it and talents, he was equally respected for his generosity... | |
| Elegant extracts - 1812 - 316 ページ
...lips, that I have kiss'd 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 your own grinning ? quite chap-fallen ? now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell... | |
| Robert Deverell - 1813 - 666 ページ
...lips that / 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 your own grinning ? quite chap-fallen ! now get you to my Lady's chamber, and... | |
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