 | lady Blake - 1870 - 446 էջ
...easy talking in that way to me, but I have somewhere heard an old song which says, ' It is well to be off with the old love before you are on with the new.' But since you wish it, I will try and VOL. III. I> turn my thoughts from you henceforth ; but I cannot... | |
 | lady Mary Anne Hardy - 1870 - 338 էջ
...One love grows green as one grows grey." " As a rule, according to the old maxim, ' it is best to be off with the old love before you are on with the new.' You have been quick in securing a successor to — your affections, shall we say ? or call it by some... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1870 - 328 էջ
...performance. He had an ominous recollection of a rhyme that stated very distinctly that it is ; " best to be off with the old love before you are on with the new." He saw it was neces- , sary to bring matters to a crisis, and after some cogitation he saw his way... | |
 | William Giles Goddard - 1870 - 542 էջ
...consideration of the self styled Democratic Convention : " 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." Fellow Citizens : — I mean to treat, with becoming seriousness, this second Dorrite Convention and... | |
 | Menella Bute Smedley - 1871 - 444 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... | |
 | Katharine Sarah Macquoid - 1871 - 416 էջ
...with her husband. It was an unspeakable relief when Paul went away. CHAPTER VII. "IT IS WELL TO BE OFF WITH THE OLD LOVE BEFORE YOU ARE ON WITH THE NEW." PAUL had hardly thought at all while he remained in Patty's morning-room. At any time the very violence... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1871 - 492 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 George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1871 - 542 էջ
...Clouds 110 „ xxxvii. The Portrait 188 „ XXXVIH. The First Sitting 191 „ xxxix. " It is well to be off with the Old Love before you are on with the New" 194 „ XL. lu which Paul "treats" Resolution 197 „ XLT. Patty's Advisers 319 „ XLH. At Roger Weatropp's... | |
 | George Henry H. Hutchinson - 1871 - 206 էջ
...Scotland : — " "Tis good to be inerry 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." But I forgive you, Sandy, dear — I do, indeed, M from the bottom of my heart — for the sake of... | |
 | Mary Bramston - 1872 - 278 էջ
...he not accepted her resignation of him ? ' Ay/ said Arnold to himself bitterly ; ' it's good to be off with the old love before you are on with the new, and Essie has taken care to do that. What inconsistent creatures women are ! and I loved Essie so awfully... | |
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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. 
