 | Henrietta Keddie - 1854 - 322 pages
...to him. CHAPTER XII. " 'Tis well to be honest and wise, 'Tis well to be faithful and true, 'Tis weU to be off with the old love, Before you are on with the new." OLD SONG. " But, when the maid departed, A Suabian raised his hand, And cried, all hot and flushed... | |
 | George Duckett Barber Beaumont - 1854 - 494 pages
...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... | |
 | 1854 - 394 pages
...to their ancestors must have induced, blotting their escutcheon ? Let us try this by a fact. To he ' 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... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1855 - 516 pages
...with a saucy glance at Mr. St. John, she sang out, in her clear, rich voice, to a tune of her own, " It is well to be off with the old love, Before you are on with the new." Adeline rose, and passed quietly into the drawing-room. But did St. John read the effect Rose Darling's... | |
 | 1855 - 518 pages
...with a saucy glance at Mr. St. John, she .sang out, in .her clear, rich voice, to a tune of her own, "It is well to be off with the old love, Before you are on -with the new." Adeline rose, and passed quietly into the drawing-room. But did St. John read the effect Rose Darling's... | |
 | Wife - 1855 - 350 pages
...mother. ! CHAPTER XV. " Amaryllis I did woo, '" •; And I courted Phillis too."— Withers. " 'Tis well to be off with the old love, Before you are on with the new." THE day at last came which was to bring back the Vernons. Constance and Cecilia were at the Rectory... | |
 | Frank Edward Smedley - 1856 - 564 pages
...mischievous archness : " "Tis good to be merry and wise, 'Tin good to be honest and true, "Tis good to be off with the old love Before you are on with the new." The party which sat down to dinner at Hazlehurst Grange on that day was a very select one. Mr. Hazlehurst... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1856 - 800 pages
...first step towards the amelioration of evils is the renunciation of the evils themselves. You must be off with the old love before you are on with the new ; and I am far from undervaluing the importance of that critical moment in a nation's progress when... | |
 | Grace Greenwood - 1856 - 362 pages
...you blithe and bonny, Converting all your sounds of woe Into Hey nonny nonny ! SHAKSPEARE. Better bo off with the old love, Before you are on with the new. OLD SONG. THE summer had passed, the autumn come, and it was the close of the last day of September,... | |
 | Thomas Henry Wilkins - 1857 - 378 pages
...me in a most loathsome manner. Do bestir yourself, and be of some use. Remember the good old song, ' It is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.' Here you go running about after Floss, whom you have known rather less than a fortnight, and slighting... | |
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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. 
