 ... 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
 | William Baldwin Affleck - Temperance - 1866 - 234 pages
...which our literature abounds — such as "The course of true love never did run smooth; "Always be off with the old love before you are on with the new, &c., &c." Luck is not to be found in wasting, nay, even worse than wasting, your precious time in the... | |
 | Love, Author of Basil St. John - 1866 - 386 pages
...DEFAULTER. ' It is best to l>c merry and wise ; It is best to be honest and true ; It is best to be off with the old love Before you are on with the new.' LORD HARLECH was a little surprised when Claude came into his bedroom before dinner, and after wandering... | |
 | Oswald Boyle - 1867 - 326 pages
...celibacy. Is it not, Carryngton?" " But," said Mrs. Morris, " is it not in this case a little rash to be off with the old love before you are on with the new ? Why announce to society that you fling it over before you get into Parliament?" " It is the enthusiasm... | |
 | Catherine Simpson Wynne - 1867 - 308 pages
...salutation that she formally returned, he sullenly walked off towards the breakfastroom. ' It's best to be off with the old love before you are on with the new ; eh, Margaret ? ' and Margaret, starting, turned round, to face her father. He met her questioning... | |
 | william harrison - 1867 - 518 pages
...quarter past eleven." The Reverend Mr. Severin said, in a loud whisper, to Cornelia, " 'Tis well to be off with the old love before you are on with the new ;" and Miss FitzHenry reddened up to the roots of her hair. " Mrs. Larpent is waiting for you, sir."... | |
 | English fiction - 1872 - 858 pages
...taken that day. ' ' ' "Tis good to be merry and wise, "Pis good to be honest and true ; 'Tis good to be off with the old love Before you are on with the new." Eh, mamma?' And stooping and picking up Paul's poor crushed flower that lay behind her mother, she... | |
 | English fiction - 1873 - 760 pages
...taken that day. ' " 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." Eh, mamma?' And stooping and picking up Paul's poor crushed flower that lay behind her mother, she... | |
 | Amanda Minnie Douglas - 1869 - 364 pages
...to," I returned, haughtily. " There is some sensible advice in the old couplet, — 1 It's good to be off with the old love, Before you are on with the new.' " to ruffle me. O, if we could but be friends, patient, true, and tender ! For a moment I was tempted... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1869 - 534 pages
...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... | |
 | 308 pages
...deepest, the grief is least profound. —DR. ISAAC BARROW. PROVERBIAL PHILOSOPHY. i. Is it " best to be off with the old love Before you are on with the new " ? 'Tis a story we've often been told, love — But I scarcely believe it : do you ? Suppose you were... | |
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