 | Herbert Byng Hall - 1852 - 372 페이지
...half sitting on the lap of Matilde, and holding on by the hand of Clarisse. Remember the song, ' 'Tis well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.' I shall write to Nelly, that's certain. Ladies permit me to tell you, he loved this Nelly in long clothes,... | |
 | Britons - 1852 - 202 페이지
...imputed to their ancestors must have induced, blotting their escutcheon ? (e) Let us try this by a fact. To be " off with the old love before you are on with the new " is carried out to the extent of " repeated vows," or a change of husbands by the Nairs, Hindus on... | |
 | 1852 - 630 페이지
...that the ditchers are flirting with a new love ? Certainly it is but a small one, but " it is better to be off with the old love before you are on with the new." They should beware lest the dreaming magician return, and with a wave of his hand open their eyes,... | |
 | 1885 - 350 페이지
...PROMISE. CHAPTER XI. ' /( it icell to be merry and wise. It ii well to be honest and true, It is u-ell to be off with the old love, Before you are on with the new." HE crisp fresh mornings of October, bright mornings full of bracing suggestions of rapid exercise,... | |
 | Isabel Goldsmid - 1852 - 228 페이지
...discover ; at length, however, my eye fell on a paragraph, headed in Brobdignagian letters, " It is good to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new ;" containing a coarse and calumnious allusion to Miss Sidney, and marked with so due a proportion... | |
 | Hannah Ransome Geldart - 1852 - 276 페이지
...only in joke. No, no ; I care for nobody, and nobody cares for me ; and she began to sing, ' 'Tis best to be off with the old love before you are on with the new/ By the by, I have brought home a relation with me — oh, such a dreadful old maid : very rich and... | |
 | Isabel Goldsmid - 1852 - 230 페이지
...discover; at length, however, my eye fell on a paragraph, headed in Brobdignagian letters, " It is good to be off with the old love, before you are on with the Mrs. Sidney, after the approved fashion of maternity, inflexibly maintained that all her children were... | |
 | John Milton - 1853 - 370 페이지
...lady of great beauty and intelligence. He had apparently not heard the Scottish proverb, " It is best to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new." A short time afterwards, he was startlingly reminded of its truth. Although agonised and almost " driven... | |
 | John Milton - 1853 - 374 페이지
...lady of great beauty and intelligence. He had apparently not heard the Scottish proverb, "It is best to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new." A short time afterwards, he was startlingly reminded of its truth. Although agonised and almost " driven... | |
 | Baroness Rosina Bulwer Lytton Lytton - 1854 - 540 페이지
...Clje ijtorHr, t\t Jfl^Ij, anfr SECTION' IX. ".I press towards the mark." — Phil. iii. 14. " It's well to be off with the old love Before you are on with the new." Old Song. " High hopes have ofttimes hard fortunes ; . And such as hastily snatch at the branches Are... | |
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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. 
