 ... Tis well to be merry and wise, 'Tis well to be honest and true; 'Tis well to be off with the old love, Before you are on with the new.  Love Laughs Last - Page 323by Stephen G. Tallentyre - 1919 - 344 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1818 - 632 pages
...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... | |
 | William Bennett (solicitor.) - 1821 - 488 pages
...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... | |
 | 1885 - 352 pages
...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,... | |
 | Theodore Edward Hook - English fiction - 1833 - 224 pages
...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... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1834 - 734 pages
...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... | |
 | Tasmania - 1834 - 460 pages
...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,... | |
 | Thomas Hood - English fiction - 1834 - 330 pages
...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.... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 1837 - 274 pages
...intimacy with the Baron Von Konigsmarke, she adopted the opinion of the old song : " "Pis well to be off with the old love Before you are on with the new." A vast crowd assembled to witness the dying agonies of the brigand. He was escorted to the scaffold... | |
 | Fashion - 462 pages
...the old rhyme, " '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." It has heen previously said, that Clara had received, and indeed encouraged, the addresses of a very... | |
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