Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?.
Ring
Oh! how many torments lie in the small circle of a wedding-ring.
Colley Cibber.—The Double Gallant, Act I. last line.
Ring out wild bells to the wild sky,
The flying cloud, the frosty light;
The year is dying in the night;
Ring out wild bells and let him die.
Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring happy bells across the snow:
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true.
Ring in the valiant man and free,
Ring in the C
Tennyson.—In Memoriam, C. V. Verses 1, 2, and last.