 | William Alexander Laurie - Freemasonry - 1859 - 622 pages
...REIGN OF VICTORIA THE FIRST. On the completiou of the ceremony the band played the lively air of " "Tis good to be Merry and Wise — 'tis good to be Honest and True," succeeded by three hearty cheers, followed by tho " Masons' Anthem," and the Grand Honours from the... | |
 | sir Frederick Charles Lascelles Wraxall (3rd bart.) - 1860 - 348 pages
...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... | |
 | Campaign songs - 1860 - 80 pages
...are gathering in their might, REPUBLICAN SONGSTER. THE FATE OF A FOWLEBr. 49 [Showing how it is best to be off with the Old Love before you are on with the New.] Tune—" Lord Lovel." A FOWLKB. one morning a poaching would go, " I'm in for a bagful," quoth he ;... | |
 | Janet Maughan - 1860 - 350 pages
...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... | |
 | Mumbai (India) - 1861 - 532 pages
...woman ! " And, 'pon my word, you know, he is a devilish lucky fellow !" WHIFF No. IV. " Its as well to be off with the old love Before you are on with the new." Old-fashioned Song. He sees now, clearly as then, the river rippling by, and the long rushes waving... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1861 - 530 pages
...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 been... | |
 | Thomas Love Peacock - 1861 - 334 pages
...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,... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1862 - 386 pages
...intrusted your letter to Socrates, or had seen some verses we could have sent you from England— " Tis good to be merry and wise, 'Tis good to be honest...'Tis good to be off with the old love, Before you be on with the new." Matters begin to look black, especially as Theresa accepts his offer ; and (as... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1863 - 332 pages
...intrusted your letter to Socrates, or had seen some verses we could have sent you from England — " 'Tis good to be merry and wise, 'Tis good to be honest...'Tis good to be off with the old love, Before you be on with the new." Matters begin to look black, especially as Theresa accepts his offer ; and (as... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - Literature - 1863 - 332 pages
...intrusted your letter to Socrates, or had seen some verses we could have sent you from England — " 'Tis good to be merry and wise, 'Tis good to be honest...'Tis good to be off with the old love, Before you be on with the new." Matters begin to look black, especially as Theresa accepts his offer ; and (as... | |
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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. 
