 ... 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
 | Britons - 1852 - 202 pages
...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... | |
 | Herbert Byng Hall - Great Britain - 1852 - 372 pages
...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,... | |
 | Floriculture - 1852 - 354 pages
...perhaps be said that Florists do not conform to the advice conveyed in the song, that " 'Tis well to be off with the old love Before you are on with the new ;" but they certainly are very fickle in their loves, and can scarcely be said to even have an old... | |
 | John Milton - 1853 - 370 pages
...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... | |
 | George Duckett Barber Beaumont - Britons - 1854 - 494 pages
...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... | |
 | Baroness Rosina Bulwer Lytton Lytton - English fiction - 1854 - 540 pages
...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... | |
 | Wales - 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... | |
 | Henrietta Keddie - 1854 - 322 pages
...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... | |
 | Wife - 1855 - 350 pages
...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... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1855 - 516 pages
...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... | |
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