 | 1860 - 80 էջ
...gathering in their might, REPUBLICAN SONGSTER. THE FATE OF A FOWLEBr. 49 [Showing how it is best to be off with the Old Love before you are on with the New.] Tune—" Lord Lovel." A FOWLKB. one morning a poaching would go, " I'm in for a bagful," quoth he ;... | |
 | sir Frederick Charles Lascelles Wraxall (3rd bart.) - 1860 - 348 էջ
...Master Herbert, Master Herbert, why could you not call to mind the old proverb, " It 's well to be off with the old love before you are on with the new"? Had you done so, you might have saved yourself a considerable amount of humiliation. CHAPTER VI. INTERVIEW... | |
 | Thomas Love Peacock - 1861 - 334 էջ
...have been thinking,' she said, of an old song which contains a morsel of good advice — Be sure to be off with the old love, Before you are on with the new. You begin by making passionate love to me, and all at once you turn round to one of my young friends,... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1861 - 530 էջ
...Chanticleer's neck for it, till he could no more cry cock-a-doodle than a cork-screw ? If it be " well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new," it is particularly a prudent principle with regard to old and new years. For example, had this work... | |
 | Sir Henry Stewart Cunningham - 1864 - 630 էջ
...the rest. Why not ? ' ' Well,' Anstruther answered, ' at any rate no one can accuse you of not being off with the old love before you are on with the new.' ' Love ? ' cried the other ; ' it was only this morning on the lawn that I found out what it meant.... | |
 | Cheltenham College - 1866 - 318 էջ
...loose with each accordingly. The old adage is certainly verified in her case, that it is good to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new, for she gets into trouble on all sides, viz., her irate parents, indignant partially-discarded lover,... | |
 | Love, Author of Basil St. John - 1866 - 386 էջ
...DEFAULTER. ' It is best to l>c merry and wise ; It is best to be honest and true ; It is best to be off with the old love Before you are on with the new.' LORD HARLECH was a little surprised when Claude came into his bedroom before dinner, and after wandering... | |
 | Eliza Stephenson - 1866 - 336 էջ
...so the days wore on one by one, one by one. There is an old adage which says — " 'Tis good to be off with the old love, Before you are on with the new." But Basil Brooke thought that it is better still to keep on with both until you see which is likely... | |
 | William Baldwin Affleck - 1866 - 234 էջ
...which our literature abounds — such as "The course of true love never did run smooth; "Always be off with the old love before you are on with the new, &c., &c." Luck is not to be found in wasting, nay, even worse than wasting, your precious time in the... | |
 | Ellen Wood - 1866 - 334 էջ
...glance at Mr. St. John, she sang out, in her clear, rich voice, to a tune of her own, " It is well to be off with the old love, Before you are on •with the new." Adeline rose, and passed quietly into the drawing-room, her step self-possessed, her bearing calm :... | |
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... Tis well to be merry and wise, 'Tis well to be honest and true; 'Tis well to be off with the old love, Before you are on with the new. 
