 | 1818 - 638 lehte
...12mo. 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 lehte
...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... | |
 | 1837 - 496 lehte
...translation, which as it bears a tolerable moral, and helps to illustrate the wise old English song of " It's good to be merry and wise ; It's good to be honest and true ; It's good to be off with the old love. Before we are on with the new." We beg leave to introduce... | |
 | 1885 - 352 lehte
...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 lehte
...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... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1828 - 346 lehte
...of Monsieur Margot's temper, even interest is a subordinate passion to vanity. CHAPTER XVIII. It is good to be merry and wise, It's good to be honest and true ; It is good to be off with the old love Before you be on with the new. Song. ONK morning, when I was riding... | |
 | 1828 - 396 lehte
...him be swung on a tree ; Wha winna drink to the lad that's gane, Can ne'er be the man for me. It's good to be merry and wise, It's good to be honest and true, It's good to be aff wi' the auld king, Afore we be on wi' the new. TRUE BLUE.v I hope there's no soul... | |
 | Theodore Edward Hook - 1833 - 224 lehte
...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 - 734 lehte
...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 - 1834 - 328 lehte
...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.... | |
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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. 
