 | 1818 - 638 pàgines
...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... | |
 | William Bennett (solicitor.) - 1821 - 488 pàgines
...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... | |
 | 1885 - 352 pàgines
...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,... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1826 - 672 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1830 - 324 pàgines
...crowing an hour too soon." I should be loth to suggest such treatment of my precocious brethren,—but didn't she twist Chanticleer's neck for it, till he...cork-screw? If it be " well to be off with the old love,OTIUM CVM DIG before you are on with the new," it is particularly a prudent principle with regard... | |
 | Theodore Edward Hook - 1833 - 224 pàgines
...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... | |
 | 1834 - 502 pàgines
...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,... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1834 - 328 pàgines
...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.... | |
 | 1834 - 734 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1835 - 322 pàgines
...other volumes, which doubtless plume themselves, and chuckle over their being so early, as the " bonnie grey cock " did, after misleading the Scottish Juliet...cork-screw ? If it be "well to be off with the old love, _J OTIUM Cl' M »IG before you are on with the new," it is particularly a prudent principle with regard... | |
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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. 
