...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....

...;' 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...

...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...

...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...

...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,...

...cannot perhaps be said that Florists do not conform to the advice conveyed in the song, that " 'Tis well to be off with the old love Before you are on with the new ;" but they certainly are very fickle in their loves, and can scarcely be said to even have an old...

...that the ditchers are flirting with a new love ? Certainly it is but a small one, but " it is better to be off with the old love before you are on with the new." They should beware lest the dreaming magician return, and with a wave of his hand open their eyes,...

...imputed to their ancestors must have induced, blotting their escutcheon ? (e) Let us try this by a fact. To be " off with the old love before you are on with the new " is carried out to the extent of " repeated vows," or a change of husbands by the Nairs, Hindus on...

...only in joke. No, no ; I care for nobody, and nobody cares for me ; and she began to sing, ' 'Tis best to be off with the old love before you are on with the new/ By the by, I have brought home a relation with me — oh, such a dreadful old maid : very rich and...

...sitting on the lap of Matilde, and holding on by the hand of Clarisse. Remember the song, ' 'Tis well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.' I shall write to Nelly, that's certain. Ladies permit me to tell you, he loved this Nelly in long clothes,...