 | Janet Maughan - 1860 - 350 стор.
...Duneden is to have false friends, as well as her neighbours; and really the good old proverb ' It's well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new,' was most skilfully transmogrified into that effective adjuration respecting some nameless individual... | |
 | sir Frederick Charles Lascelles Wraxall (3rd bart.) - 1860 - 348 стор.
...mistress. Master Herbert, Master Herbert, why could you not call to mind the old proverb, " It 's well to be off with the old love before you are on with the new"? Had you done so, you might have saved yourself a considerable amount of humiliation. CHAPTER VI. INTERVIEW... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1861 - 530 стор.
...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... | |
 | Thomas Love Peacock - 1861 - 334 стор.
...I have been thinking,' she said, of an old song which contains a morsel of good advice — Be sure to be off with the old love, Before you are on with the new. You begin by making passionate love to me, and all at once you turn round to one of my young friends,... | |
 | Sir Henry Stewart Cunningham - 1864 - 630 стор.
...the rest. Why not ? ' ' Well,' Anstruther answered, ' at any rate no one can accuse you of not being off with the old love before you are on with the new.' ' Love ? ' cried the other ; ' it was only this morning on the lawn that I found out what it meant.... | |
 | Cheltenham College - 1866 - 318 стор.
...and plays fast and loose with each accordingly. The old adage is certainly verified in her case, that it is good to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new, for she gets into trouble on all sides, viz., her irate parents, indignant partially-discarded lover,... | |
 | Eliza Stephenson - 1866 - 336 стор.
...usual. And so the days wore on one by one, one by one. There is an old adage which says — " 'Tis good to be off with the old love, Before you are on with the new." But Basil Brooke thought that it is better still to keep on with both until you see which is likely... | |
 | Menella Bute Smedley - 1866 - 704 стор.
...sometimes. And her mother was consumptive." " It's the worst policy in the world," said Colonel Wilton, " to be off with the old love before you are on with the new. Of course, it's quite right afterwards; but before, when nobody knows what may happen ! I have always... | |
 | Love, Author of Basil St. John - 1866 - 386 стор.
...XXXI. A 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... | |
 | Ellen Wood - 1866 - 334 стор.
...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, her step self-possessed, her bearing calm :... | |
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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. 
