 | Thomas Staunton St. Clair - 1834 - 424 sider
...we were busily employed in demolishing a good Scotch supper, when the clock struck twelve, and, on the death of the old year and the birth of the new, each gentleman seized his fair partner round the waist and imprinted a kiss on her rosy lips, expressing... | |
 | 1840 - 594 sider
...us show off. It was late, and I got up to come away. We parted merrily ; the bells were ringing for the death of the old year and the birth of the new, as I shook her hand and left the house. The old steeples seemed to rock in the night breeze as I walked... | |
 | Emma Hardinge Britten - 1861 - 400 sider
...are beneath or above us, just now, God alone can tell. But they say that just at midnight, between the death of the old year and the birth of the new, the villagers up there on Solway Crags, heard the shriek of a number of drowning souls. The sound was... | |
 | Clara Loud - 1861 - 136 sider
...Farewell to the Old Year... ... ... 99 A Welcome to the New Year 101 The Old Familiar Voice 103 On the Death of the Old year and the Birth of the New 105 A Sonnet 108 Valentine's Morn 109 Vincentio the Brave ... ... ... 112 On a Withered Rose plucked... | |
 | William Martin - 1865 - 426 sider
...quit the fro/en marshes to seek their food there. Hark! the bells from the village- steeple tell us of the death of the Old Year, and the birth of the New one. It is a joyful sound, and our hearts leap up with the bells; and we think of many a bright day past,... | |
 | 1870 - 972 sider
...house. It was as if all the world were hushed and listening for the first sound which should tell of the death of the old year and the birth of the new. Just when the silence seemed the deepest they were almost startled by the first sounds of the chimes,... | |
 | John Hill Burton - 1880 - 394 sider
...indivisible as that belonging both to December and January, accepted by the Christian world as marking the death of the old year and the birth of the new. The councillors present, "after some time, agreed to go in a body to attend her Majesty Queen Anne... | |
 | John Hill Burton - 1880 - 390 sider
...indivisible as that belonging both to December and January, accepted by the Christian world as marking the death of the old year and the birth of the new. The councillors present, "after some time, agreed to go in a body to attend her Majesty Queen Anne... | |
 | 1881 - 880 sider
...Uinkart's hymn, which is sung in thousands of German households as the clock strikes twelve, announcing the death of the old year and the birth of the new — "Deck thyself, my soul, with gladness." He re-arranged the chorale composed by the Electress Louisa... | |
 | 1881 - 704 sider
...Binkart's hymn, which is sung in thousands of German households as the clock strikes twelve, announcing the death of the old year and the birth of the new — "Deck thyself, my soul, with gladness." He re-arranged the chorale composed by the Electress Louisa... | |
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... of the death of the old year and the birth of the new. In the comedy of the Renaissance the doctor is a stock figure, mocked for his pretentiousness and pomposity. 
