 | Menella Bute Smedley - 1866 - 704 էջ
...And her mother was consumptive." " It's the worst policy in the world," said Colonel Wilton, " to be off with the old love before you are on with the new. Of course, it's quite right afterwards; but before, when nobody knows what may happen ! I have always... | |
 | william harrison - 1867 - 518 էջ
...quarter past eleven." The Reverend Mr. Severin said, in a loud whisper, to Cornelia, " 'Tis well to be off with the old love before you are on with the new ;" and Miss FitzHenry reddened up to the roots of her hair. " Mrs. Larpent is waiting for you, sir."... | |
 | 1873 - 758 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... | |
 | 1872 - 858 էջ
...taken that day. ' ' ' "Tis good to be merry and wise, "Pis 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... | |
 | Oswald Boyle - 1867 - 326 էջ
...celibacy. Is it not, Carryngton?" " But," said Mrs. Morris, " is it not in this case a little rash to be off with the old love before you are on with the new ? Why announce to society that you fling it over before you get into Parliament?" " It is the enthusiasm... | |
 | Catherine Simpson Wynne - 1867 - 308 էջ
...salutation that she formally returned, he sullenly walked off towards the breakfastroom. ' It's best to be off with the old love before you are on with the new ; eh, Margaret ? ' and Margaret, starting, turned round, to face her father. He met her questioning... | |
 | Amanda Minnie Douglas - 1869 - 364 էջ
...to," I returned, haughtily. " There is some sensible advice in the old couplet, — 1 It's good to be off with the old love, Before you are on with the new.' " to ruffle me. O, if we could but be friends, patient, true, and tender ! For a moment I was tempted... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1869 - 534 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... | |
 | 308 էջ
...deepest, the grief is least profound. —DR. ISAAC BARROW. PROVERBIAL PHILOSOPHY. i. Is it " best to be off with the old love Before you are on with the new " ? 'Tis a story we've often been told, love — But I scarcely believe it : do you ? Suppose you were... | |
 | Briars - 1870 - 376 էջ
...despite of himself they would revert to the last scene with Annette. He muttered to himself, 'It's well to bo off with the old love before you are on with the new. I hope that is true ; but God knows what that woman will be up to.' He was even so soon beginning to... | |
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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. 
