 | 1818 - 638 страници
...Price L. 1, Is. boards. "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. III. TRAVELS through some Parts of GERMANY, P.OLAND, MOLDAVIA, and TURKEY. By ADAM NEALE, MD late Physician... | |
 | William Bennett (solicitor.) - 1821 - 488 страници
...given up her more youthful, but less wealthy lover, in accordance with the old maxim, — " Be sure to be off with the old love, Before you are on with the new." * But, unfortunately, she had, in this instance, broken with her old love, before she was secure of... | |
 | 1885 - 352 страници
...OF PROMISE. CHAPTER XI. " It it tvell to be merry and wine, Jt i> well to be honett and true, It it well to be off with the old love, Before you are on with the new." я HE crisp fresh mornings of October, bright mornings full of bracing suggestions of rapid exercise,... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1826 - 672 страници
...Goetz of Berlichingen', ice. He had not heard, or did . not sanction (it appears) the dictum, »'fis well to be off with the old love, Before you are on with tlie new. Golden Meane, Discoursing the Noblenesse of Vertue in extremes F. 1038 Goldsmith's Miscellaneous... | |
 | Theodore Edward Hook - 1833 - 224 страници
...have given, are utterly annihilated." " You have heard the Scottish song, George," said MacGopus — " It is well to be off with the old love, Before you are on with the new. " " I don't think the Duchess — or her daughter — or her son — if it were referred to him, would... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1834 - 328 страници
...dirge at all over the departed Ringwood, it was to the tune of that most prudential of ditties, "Tis well to be off with the old love Before you are on with the new. CHAPTER IV. "Tis water here, 'tis water there, 'Tis water, water, every where. THE ANCIENT MARINER. Rumour... | |
 | 1834 - 734 страници
...progress of the story slow and languid, and the end ' bloody and unnatural' The moral is — " It's best to be off with the old love, Before you are on with the new." India, a Poem, in three Cantos, by a young Civilian of Bengal. — Indignation has done what a milder... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1835 - 272 страници
...dirge at all over the departed Ringwood, it was to the tune of that most prudential of ditties, 'T is well to be off with the old love Before you are on with the new. CHAPTER XXXIV. 'T is water, hero ч la water there, 'T is water, water, every where. THE ANCIEKT MARINES. Rumour... | |
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...grafting of a second love upon a first gave rise to, reminds us of a homely English proverb, " Always be off with the old love, Before you are on with the new." The struggle between reason and passion in the last chapter, when Ofclia is left by her husband in... | |
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...justice of the old rhyme, " '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." It has heen previously said, that Clara had received, and indeed encouraged, the addresses of a very... | |
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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. 
