 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.  Democrat - Seite 1911886Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1818 - 638 Seiten
...12mo. Price L. 1, Is. boards. "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. III. TRAVELS through some Parts of GERMANY, P.OLAND, MOLDAVIA, and TURKEY. By ADAM NEALE, MD late Physician... | |
 | Mary Jane Mackenzie - 1820 - 304 Seiten
...one of that class, (I hope, for the honour of your sex, it is not a large one) who forget, that — ' It is good to be merry and wise ; It is good to be...true ; It is good to be off with the old love, Before we be on with the new." VOL. III. O " He whispered vows to other ladies, and they believed him. What... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1820 - 574 Seiten
...to poetical justice, produces worse consequences than slight deviations from principle will admit. " It is good to be merry and wise; It is good to be...true; It is good to be off' with the old love, Before we be on with the new." Geraldine makes exceptions to this line of conduct; and the noble, generous,... | |
 | Mary Jane Mackenzie - 1821 - 320 Seiten
...class (I hope, for the honour of your sex, it is not a large one) who forget that — ' It is good lo be merry and wise ; It is good to be honest and true ; It is good to be off with the old love, Before we be on with the new.' " He whispered vows to other ladies, and they believed him. What was to be... | |
 | William Bennett (solicitor.) - 1821 - 488 Seiten
...given up her more youthful, but less wealthy lover, in accordance with the old maxim, — " Be sure to be off with the old love, Before you are on with the new." * But, unfortunately, she had, in this instance, broken with her old love, before she was secure of... | |
 | 1885 - 352 Seiten
...PROMISE. CHAPTER XI. " It it tvell to be merry and wine, Jt i> well to be honett and true, It it well to be off with the old love, Before you are on with the new." я HE crisp fresh mornings of October, bright mornings full of bracing suggestions of rapid exercise,... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1826 - 672 Seiten
...of Berlichingen', ice. He had not heard, or did . not sanction (it appears) the dictum, »'fis well to be off with the old love, Before you are on with tlie new. Golden Meane, Discoursing the Noblenesse of Vertue in extremes F. 1038 Goldsmith's Miscellaneous... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1828 - 346 Seiten
...even interest is a subordinate passion to vanity. CHAPTER XVIII. It is good to be merry and wise, It's good to be honest and true ; It is good to be off with the old love Before you be on with the new. Song. ONK morning, when I was riding to the Bois de Boulogne (the celebrated place... | |
 | 1829 - 276 Seiten
...this a consideration deserving to be treated lightly; if it be true, indeed, as we are assured that: " It is good to be merry and wise, It is good to be honest and true," — qualities that cannot be more effectually inculcated than by making young people happy, during... | |
 | 1829 - 270 Seiten
...this a consideration deserving to be treated lightly; if it be true, indeed, as we are assured that: " It is good to be merry and wise, It is good to be honest and true," — qualities that cannot be more effectually inculcated than by making young people happy, during... | |
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