 | 1867 - 696 стор.
...as was then the custom for boys and young men, he played female characters.] QUOTATION-.— " It's good to be off with the old love Before you are on with the new." Are these lines, commonly given in the above form, a modification of the old song — " It's gude to... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1903 - 606 стор.
...before they are certain that they have something better to offer. The old proverb, "Be sure you are off with the old love before you are on with the new," is one all too apt to be forgotten by the enthusiasts who are unable to distinguish the difference... | |
 | 1849 - 508 стор.
...particular bore ! Not that I have the remotest expectancy of such a coup de bouheur. NB Remember, " Its well to be off with the old love before you are on with die new. " I think I hear la be U Blanche er claiming, indignantly, — " Olinto,* " E la fede degli... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1850 - 650 стор.
...Cornhill, to London Bridge, where they dismounted at the house of Jordan the Tanner. CHAPTEE VIII. " It's good to be off with the old love Before you are on with the new." Old Song. BETAS FITZOSBEET was bom to be a hunter, his heart was ever in the wild woods " a chasing... | |
 | John Ludlum McConnel - 1850 - 534 стор.
...positively fiancte. I would have told him long ago—or at least, before now. You know the old verse,— -' It is good to be merry and wise, It is good to l)c honest and true ; It is good to be o/T'with the old love. Before you arc on with the new." " But... | |
 | William James Linton - 1851 - 806 стор.
...the old Irish love still be paramount ? Then he is doubly Traitor. The song says sooth, * It is well to be off with the old love ' Before you are on with the new.' Twenty-one years ago a young man passed, like Meagher, from college to prison for his country's sake.... | |
 | 1851 - 468 стор.
...;' but I believe the modern reading of another proverb is now the most received — ' It's best not be off with the old love before you are on with the new,' and with the certainty we may now feel that we shall never be without many churches on our hands to... | |
 | Isabel Goldsmid - 1852 - 228 стор.
...could discover ; at length, however, my eye fell on a paragraph, headed in Brobdignagian letters, " It is good to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new ;" containing a coarse and calumnious allusion to Miss Sidney, and marked with so due a proportion... | |
 | Isabel Goldsmid - 1852 - 230 стор.
...could discover; at length, however, my eye fell on a paragraph, headed in Brobdignagian letters, " It is good to be off with the old love, before you are on with the Mrs. Sidney, after the approved fashion of maternity, inflexibly maintained that all her children were... | |
 | 1885 - 350 стор.
...PROMISE. CHAPTER XI. ' /( it icell to be merry and wise. It ii well to be honest and true, It is u-ell to be off with the old love, Before you are on with the new." HE crisp fresh mornings of October, bright mornings full of bracing suggestions of rapid exercise,... | |
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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. 
