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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. "
Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature - Page 322
edited by - 1871
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 30

1818 - 638 pages
...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...
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The cavalier, by Lee Gibbons, Volume 1

William Bennett (solicitor.) - 1821 - 488 pages
...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...
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The World of fashion and continental feuilletons [afterw ..., Issues 733-744

1885 - 352 pages
...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,...
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The English Portion of the Library of the Ven. Francis Wrangham

Francis Wrangham - 1826 - 672 pages
...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...
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The Parson's Daughter, Volume 2

Theodore Edward Hook - 1833 - 224 pages
...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...
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The Hobart Town Magazine, Volume 3

1834 - 502 pages
...AUTHOR OF " ROB TUB RED-HAND." It is well to be merry and wise ; It is well to be honest and true ; It is well to be off with the old love. Before you are on with the new. CHAPTER I. " To be, or not to be — That is the question." — HAMLET. " Have you made up your mind,...
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Tylney Hall, Volume 3

Thomas Hood - 1834 - 328 pages
...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....
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The Gentleman's Magazine, Volumes 156-157

1834 - 734 pages
...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...
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Tylney Hall

Thomas Hood - 1835 - 272 pages
...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....
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The Constitutional magazine, and literary review

842 pages
...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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