| 1840 - 452 Seiten
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| 462 Seiten
...justice of the old rhyme, " '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." It has heen previously said, that Clara had received, and indeed encouraged, the addresses of a very... | |
| Isabel Goldsmid - 1839 - 336 Seiten
...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 of... | |
| miss Aylmer (fict. name.) - 1840 - 968 Seiten
...MAID'S HUSBAND. CHAPTER I. 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 you are on with the new. — Old Song. " That even, Ambition cannot pierce a wink beyond, But doubts discovery there." " ' Chi... | |
| 1871 - 880 Seiten
...nn unspeakable relief when Paul went away. CHAPTER XXXIX. " It is well to be off with the old lore before you are on with the new." PAUL had hardly thought...violence of his impulses made concentrated thought a flow process ; feeling had to be given time to subside before judgment could begin to act. When he... | |
| 1851 - 462 Seiten
...the principles of materialism. .If this is the case, we may apply to him the words of the song, — " It is well to be off with the old love, Before you are on with the new." Now and then it would seem as if he had some glimpses of the truth, but that the "letting I dare not... | |
| Camilla Jenkin - 1844 - 332 Seiten
...MAID'S HUSBAND. CHAPTER I. 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 you are on with the new. — Old Song. " That even, Ambition cannot pierce a wink beyond, But doubts discovery there." " ' Chi... | |
| Anna Maria Hall - 842 Seiten
...mischicvous arehness : " '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 1" The party which sat down to dinner at Hazlehnrst Grange on that day was a very seleet one. Mr. Hazlehurst... | |
| 1846 - 484 Seiten
...interrupted Captain Harcourt, " recollect Mr. Calibash is my friend, and I cannot allow " " •' Tis well to be off with the old love, Before you are on with the new.' " " Curse me !" cried Captain Harcourt, losing a portion of his aristocratical nonchalance, " if I... | |
| Robert Folkestone Williams - 1847 - 364 Seiten
...prospects." " Zounds ! Sir, what d'ye mean ? " shouted the angry notleman, in a voice of thunder. ' It 's as well to be off with the old love, Before you are on with the new.' " " I care nothing for your old song — I know nothing of your intrigue," answered the Secretary of... | |
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