| Charles Tomlinson - 1874 - 260 էջ
...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,... | |
| Anthony Trollope - 1875 - 394 էջ
...has been going to marry Miss Melmotte ! " " You're old-fashioned, Hetta. It used to be the way, — to bo off with the old love before you are on with the new ; but that seems to be all changed now. Such fine young fellows as there are now can be in love with... | |
| Thomas Love Peacock - 1875 - 488 էջ
...been thinking," she said, " of an old song which contains a morsel of good advice — " Be sure to be off with the old love, Before you are on with the new. You begin by making passionate love to me, and all at onceyou turn round to one of my young friends,... | |
| Harold Morton Kramer - 1908 - 490 էջ
...Tennys laughed gayly once more, and then curtsying before her companion, quoted : " It is well to be off with the old love Before you are on with the new." " Ah, then I have your pretty secret at last. You are the fiancee of another." " His name is Joe. It... | |
| Hugh Percy Jones - 1908 - 562 էջ
...to seem, but to be the noblest. (You cannot love Thetis and Galatea at the same time.) You must be off with the old love before you are on with the new. A city that is set upon a hill cannot be hid. Ill fares the State Where many masters rule ; let one... | |
| Anthony Trollope - 1908 - 496 էջ
...dear 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... | |
| Robert Barr - 1908 - 318 էջ
...profession, even though you have turned towards your second. You, perhaps, find it not so easy to be off with the old love before you are on with the new." She contradicted her statement about the laughing girl by laughing now, and somehow it struck me as... | |
| Robert Barr - 1910 - 264 էջ
...house so near finished as all that ? " "I don't know what you mean." "There is a phrase about being off with the old love before you are on with the new, and I suppose it may be twisted round to apply to houses as well as to the affections. This old house... | |
| Richard Garnett - 1910 - 378 էջ
...or which would have become out of date ere it could have treated them. Nevertheless, Tis well to be off with the old love Before you are on with the new, and Fox, bound to the Repository, had to pull for a while at the oar like the ferryman in the fairy... | |
| 1911 - 206 էջ
...—Alfred Tennyson. The course of true love never did run smooth. •—Shakespeare. 'Tis well to be off with the old love Before you are on with the new. —Charles Robert Maturin. Love hath wings. —Abraham Cowley. When Poverty comes in at the door, Love... | |
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