| 1834 - 918 страници
...Gurn— Gurney— ia girn— girn — girnin' — at us Voice. I'm not girniog, Mr Hogg. NORTH (laging down his ladle). " It is well to be off with the old love Before we are on with the new I " Nay, better to be true to our first — our sole tureen— than vainly seek to transfer our passions... | |
| 1837 - 496 страници
...old English song of " It's good to be merry and wise ; It's good to be honest and true ; It's good to be off with the old love. Before we are on with the new." We beg leave to introduce it to the English reader, just to show how perfidious inconstants are served... | |
| 1852 - 538 страници
...fresh hopes for a recurrence of our season, let us get comfortably out of the present one. " It's as well to be off with the old love before we are on with the new." And why are we off with the old one so early ? The weather, that universal scapegoat. Oh, those dry... | |
| 1834 - 896 страници
...then ? Gur— Gurn— Gurney— is girn— girn— girnin' — at us Voice. I'm not girning, Mr Hogg. NORTH (laying down his ladle). " It is well to be...affections to a second, however attractive; therefore let the worthies in waiting— male and female— waft away the rest into thespence, and there collaterally... | |
| John William Carleton - 1852 - 518 страници
...fresh hopes for a recurrence of our season, let us get comfortably out of the present one. " It's as well to be off with the old love before we are on with the new." And why are we off with the old one so early ? The weather, that universal scapegoat. Oh, those dry... | |
| 1839 - 366 страници
...Hundred and Thirty-eight. " 'Tis good to be merry and wise ; 'Tis right to be honest and true ; 'Tis well to be off with the old love, Before we are on with the new." The 29th of December is the anniversary о the murder of St. Thomas à Beckett, Archbishop of Canterbury.... | |
| Royal Agricultural Society of England - 1866 - 654 страници
...allowed to remind them, on this point, of the old proverb, which really had much weight in it, that " it is well to be off with the old love before we are on with the new ; " and at this moment they were enjoying the benefits of a very wide and valuable system of compulsory... | |
| 1846 - 686 страници
...craft that has more than once so gallantly weathered the storm for us. There is no wisdom in being off with the old love before we are on with the new. Malornm immcnsa voraßo et giirges. — CICERO. Qui dit doctcnr, ne dit pas lonjoar* un homme docte,... | |
| John Wilson, John Gibson Lockhart, James Hogg - 1854 - 508 страници
...girnin' — at us — Voice. I'm not girning, Mr. Hogg. North {laying down his ladle.) 'It is well to he off with the old love Before we are on with the new...affections to a second, however attractive ; therefore let the worthies in waiting — male and female — waft away the rest into the spence, and there collaterally... | |
| John Wilson - 1856 - 392 страници
...— the — dee — deevil then? Gur — Gurn — Gurney — is girn — girn — girnin — at us North (laying down his ladle). — " It is -well to...affections to a second, however attractive ; therefore let the worthies in waiting — male and female — waft away the rest into the spence,1 and there collaterally... | |
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