 | 1852 - 354 էջ
...perhaps be said that Florists do not conform to the advice conveyed in the song, that " 'Tis well to be off with the old love Before you are on with the new ;" but they certainly are very fickle in their loves, and can scarcely be said to even have an old... | |
 | 1885 - 350 էջ
...CHAPTER XI. ' /( it icell to be merry and wise. It ii well to be honest and true, It is u-ell to be off with the old love, Before you are on with the new." HE crisp fresh mornings of October, bright mornings full of bracing suggestions of rapid exercise,... | |
 | Isabel Goldsmid - 1852 - 228 էջ
...at length, however, my eye fell on a paragraph, headed in Brobdignagian letters, " It is good to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new ;" containing a coarse and calumnious allusion to Miss Sidney, and marked with so due a proportion... | |
 | John Milton - 1853 - 370 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... | |
 | Henrietta Keddie - 1854 - 322 էջ
...him. CHAPTER XII. " 'Tis well to be honest and wise, 'Tis well to be faithful and true, 'Tis weU to be off with the old love, Before you are on with the new." OLD SONG. " But, when the maid departed, A Suabian raised his hand, And cried, all hot and flushed... | |
 | George Duckett Barber Beaumont - 1854 - 494 էջ
...their ancestors must have induced, blotting their escutcheon ? (e) Let us try this by a fact. To be " off with the old love before you are on with the new " is carried out to the extent of " repeated vows," or a change of husbands by the Nairs, Hindus on... | |
 | Baroness Rosina Bulwer Lytton Lytton - 1854 - 540 էջ
...ijtorHr, t\t Jfl^Ij, anfr SECTION' IX. ".I press towards the mark." — Phil. iii. 14. " It's well to be off with the old love Before you are on with the new." Old Song. " High hopes have ofttimes hard fortunes ; . And such as hastily snatch at the branches Are... | |
 | 1854 - 394 էջ
...to their ancestors must have induced, blotting their escutcheon ? Let us try this by a fact. To he ' off with the old love before you are on with the new ' is carried out to the extent of ' repeated vows,' or a change of husbands, by the Nairs, Hindus on... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1855 - 516 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. But did St. John read the effect Rose Darling's... | |
 | 1855 - 518 էջ
...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. But did St. John read the effect Rose Darling's... | |
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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. 
