 | Christian Reid - 1872 - 234 էջ
...ringing out. " ' 'Tie good to be merry and wise, ' Tis good to be honest and true : 'Tie good to be off with the old love, Before you are on with the new.' " " That is all very fine," said MJ. Hautaine, coolly ; " but when one has no intention either of being... | |
 | Louisa Hawtrey - 1872 - 208 էջ
...CHAPTER VIII. " "Tis good to be merry and wise ; 'Tis good to be honest and true ; 'Tis good to be off with the old love Before you are on with the new." " FIFTY Jacobuses! " murmured Captain Bowden to himself, as he stood on deck, watching the receding... | |
 | miss Telfer - 1873 - 310 էջ
...Anne told herself that she had been wise in so doing, remembering the old song — " It is best to be off with the old love Before you are on with the new;" and twenty times a night, when, starting from a broken sleep, her hand mechanically felt for the locket... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1873 - 1076 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... | |
 | Mrs. Alexander Fraser - 1873 - 372 էջ
...taken that day. " 'Tis good to be merry and wise, 'Tis good to be honest and true ; 'Tis good to be off with the old love Before you are on with the new.' Eh, mamma?" And stooping and picking up Paul's poor crushed flower that lay behind her mother, she... | |
 | Anthony Trollope - 1873 - 382 էջ
...old rhyme ; — " It is good to be merry and wise, It is good to be honest and true, It is good to be off with the old love Before you are on with the new." There was never better truth spoken than this, and if all men and women could follow the advice here... | |
 | Charles Tomlinson - 1874 - 288 էջ
...of Burns— " It is good to be merry and wise, It is good to be honest and true ; It is good to be off with the old love Before you are on with the new," may not be a specimen of high-class poetry, but it includes both wisdom and wit happily expressed,... | |
 | Mary Lovett Cameron - 1874 - 276 էջ
...CHAPTER XV. i " 'Tis well to be merry and wise, love, 'Tis well to be honest and true ; 'Tis well to be off with the old love Before you are on with the new." THE next three weeks were passed by Fancy in comparative solitude ; the boys having returned to Eton,... | |
 | mrs. C Evans - 1874 - 406 էջ
...on sea, To one thing constant never." But you will find it safer in the end, Clinton Meredith, to be off with the old love before you are on with the new ! CHAPTER IX. A DBAWN GAME. LUCY'S father was a man of a passionate disposition ; his temper, once... | |
 | John Milton - 1874 - 758 էջ
...great beauty and intelligence. He had apparently not heard the Scottish proverb, "It is best to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new." A short time afterwards, he was startlingly reminded of its truth. Although agonised and almost " driven... | |
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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. 
