 | Robert Dwarris Gibney - 1858 - 392 페이지
...quarter, think you ? Poor Kitty, she has joined the dear departed; ah, well, but perhaps " "Pis as well to be off with the old love, Before you are on with the new." hummed the Ensign. "I say, Coventry," put in the good natured Major, talking in broad, north country... | |
 | Harriet Maria Gordon Smythies, Mrs. Gordon Smythies - 1858 - 314 페이지
...so; and I've a great mind to send her some green ribbon, and write inside the paper — ' 'Ti« good to be off with the old love Before you are on with the new.' Miss De Vere used to be uncommon strict in the Sunday school, and I should be very glad to tell her... | |
 | 1858 - 746 페이지
...engagement with the old one. He had, however, forgotten the wisdom contained in the old song — " "Tis best to be off with the old love Before you are on with the new." He ought to have in some way got rid of his original liaison before he allowed himself to he engaged... | |
 | Robert Dwarris Gibney - 1858 - 390 페이지
...quarter, think you ? Poor Kitty, she has joined the dear departed ; ah, well, but perhaps " 'Tis as well to be off with the old love, Before you are on with the aew." hummed the Ensign. "I say, Coventry," put in the good natured Major, talking in broad, north... | |
 | sir Frederick Charles Lascelles Wraxall (3rd bart.) - 1860 - 348 페이지
...young mistress. Master Herbert, Master Herbert, why could you not call to mind the old proverb, " It 's well to be off with the old love before you are on with the new"? Had you done so, you might have saved yourself a considerable amount of humiliation. CHAPTER VI. INTERVIEW... | |
 | Janet Maughan - 1860 - 350 페이지
...Duneden is to have false friends, as well as her neighbours; and really the good old proverb ' It's well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new,' was most skilfully transmogrified into that effective adjuration respecting some nameless individual... | |
 | 1861 - 532 페이지
...hard-hearted woman ! " And, 'pon my word, you know, he is a devilish lucky fellow !" WHIFF No. IV. " Its as well to be off with the old love Before you are on with the new." Old-fashioned Song. He sees now, clearly as then, the river rippling by, and the long rushes waving... | |
 | 1860 - 80 페이지
...are gathering in their might, REPUBLICAN SONGSTER. THE FATE OF A FOWLEBr. 49 [Showing how it is best to be off with the Old Love before you are on with the New.] Tune—" Lord Lovel." A FOWLKB. one morning a poaching would go, " I'm in for a bagful," quoth he ;... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1861 - 530 페이지
...twist 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... | |
 | Thomas Love Peacock - 1861 - 334 페이지
...I have 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 once you turn round to one of my young friends,... | |
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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. 
