 | Wife - 1855 - 350 էջ
...CHAPTER XV. " Amaryllis I did woo, '" •; And I courted Phillis too."— Withers. " 'Tis well to be off with the old love, Before you are on with the new." THE day at last came which was to bring back the Vernons. Constance and Cecilia were at the Rectory... | |
 | Frank Edward Smedley - 1856 - 564 էջ
...mischievous archness : " "Tis good to be merry and wise, 'Tin good to be honest and true, "Tis good to be off with the old love Before you are on with the new." The party which sat down to dinner at Hazlehurst Grange on that day was a very select one. Mr. Hazlehurst... | |
 | Grace Greenwood - 1856 - 362 էջ
...be you blithe and bonny, Converting all your sounds of woe Into Hey nonny nonny ! SHAKSPEARE. Better bo off with the old love, Before you are on with the new. OLD SONG. THE summer had passed, the autumn come, and it was the close of the last day of September,... | |
 | George Alfred Lawrence - 1857 - 350 էջ
...speedily. CHAPTER XX. - 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." THERE was a sound of revelry by night in Mrs. Wallace's villa at Richmond, and fair women and brave... | |
 | Thomas Henry Wilkins - 1857 - 378 էջ
...loathsome manner. Do bestir yourself, and be of some use. Remember the good old song, ' It is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.' Here you go running about after Floss, whom you have known rather less than a fortnight, and slighting... | |
 | 1858 - 746 էջ
...the old one. He had, however, forgotten the wisdom contained in the old song — " "Tis best to be off with the old love Before you are on with the new." He ought to have in some way got rid of his original liaison before he allowed himself to he engaged... | |
 | Robert Dwarris Gibney - 1858 - 388 էջ
...think you ? Poor Kitty, she has joined the dear departed ; ah, well, but perhaps " 'Tis as well to be off with the old love, Before you are on with the new." hummed the Ensign. "I say, Coventry," put in the good natured Major, talking in broad, north country... | |
 | Harriet Maria Gordon Smythies, Mrs. Gordon Smythies - 1858 - 314 էջ
...I've a great mind to send her some green ribbon, and write inside the paper — ' 'Ti« good to be off with the old love Before you are on with the new.' Miss De Vere used to be uncommon strict in the Sunday school, and I should be very glad to tell her... | |
 | Janet Maughan - 1860 - 350 էջ
...to have false friends, as well as her neighbours; and really the good old proverb ' It's well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new,' was most skilfully transmogrified into that effective adjuration respecting some nameless individual... | |
 | 1861 - 532 էջ
...! " And, 'pon my word, you know, he is a devilish lucky fellow !" WHIFF No. IV. " Its as well to be off with the old love Before you are on with the new." Old-fashioned Song. He sees now, clearly as then, the river rippling by, and the long rushes waving... | |
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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. 
