| Anniversary calendar - 1832 - 548 ページ
...infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. Where be your jibes now ? your gambols ? your songs ? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table in a roar 1 not one, to mock your own griuning? quite chop- fallen ! Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell... | |
| Richard Gooch - 1836 - 290 ページ
...less careworn had he been less careless; his honour is " air — thin air;" " his gibes, his jests, his flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table in a roar," no longer enliven the plenteous banquet : — " Deserted in his utmost need By men his former bounty... | |
| Mrs. Mathews (Anne Jackson) - 1839 - 532 ページ
...fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. . .Where be your gambols now ? your songs ? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table in a roar ?" By how many thousands has this hackneyed quotation been uttered with reference to Mathews; but,... | |
| Alexander Reid - 1839 - 154 ページ
...thousand times. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be his gibes now ? his gambols ? his songs ? his flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table in a roar ? I knew him, Horatio ; a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy: he hath borne me on his... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1839 - 238 ページ
...best, — touched not the sick-man's lips that night. His wonted humor was gone. Of all his 'jibes, his gambols, his songs, his flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar, not one now, to mock his own grinning ! — quite chap-fallen.' — The conversation was... | |
| Marguerite Gardiner (countess of Blessington.) - 1839 - 580 ページ
...but as they ought to have been." " Alas ! poor Yorick, where be your gibes now ? your gambols ? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table in a roar?" How well do I remember the last day he dined with me ! when he literally did set the table in a roar,... | |
| Marguerite Countess of Blessington - 1839 - 376 ページ
...but as they ought to have been." " Alas ! poor Yorick, where be your gibes now ? your gambols ? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table in a roar ?" How well do I remember the last day he dined with me ! when he literally did set the table in a... | |
| Monthly literary register - 1839 - 720 ページ
...down." — " Ay" — interrupted Dick, "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 yonr grinning? quite chop-fallen?— Had'st thou remembered Shakspere, the quotation... | |
| John William Carleton - 1849 - 522 ページ
...how light-hearted they went their ways ! " 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 jeering? Quite chap-fallen?" Mark the feverish eagerness with which... | |
| Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 1839 - 864 ページ
...and very flath of it. Shalapeare. Where be your gibes now ? your gambols ? your songs? yourJïoiA« of merriment, that were wont to set the table in a roar ? Id. By day and night he wrongs me ; every hour Hefluthes into one gross crime or other, That sets... | |
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