...cold to be attempted. Chambers says that "it was right, even in these poetico-Platonic affairs, to be 'off with the old love before he was on with the new.' . . . O, womankind ! think of that when you are addressed otherwise than in the language of common-sense....

...cold to be attempted. Chambers says that "it was right, even in these poetico-Platonic affairs, to be 'off with the old love before he was on with the new.' . . . O, womankind ! think of that when you are addressed otherwise than in the language of common-sense....

...in which Jove might have found matter for perennial laughter ; and he was rarely wise enough to be off with the old love before he was on with the new, a want of prudence which was the source of much vexatious and undignified embarrassment. Down to the...

...letters, in which Jove might have found matter for perennial laughter; and he was rarely wise enough to be off with the old love before he was on with the new, a want of prudence which was the source of much vexatious and undignified embarrassment. Down to the...

...that Jette's family, too, had felt some scruples, and were anxious to know that Goschen was really off with the old love before he was on with the new. A fragment of a letter from Kunze implies that his enamoured friend had appealed to him for help in...

...might warrant the belief that his loves of women were many and frequent; that he was scarcely ever "off with the old love before he was on with the new." The "Hesperides" containes dainty and amorous ditties to Anthea, to Silvia, to Perilla, to Corinna,...

...might warrant the belief that his loves of women were many and frequent; that he was scarcely ever "off with the old love before he was on with the new." The "Hesperides" containes dainty and amorous ditties to Anthea, to Silvia, to Perilla, to Corinna,...

...have been written ; he only feels that the stop is otiose, and that his author had better have been off with the old love before he was on with the new. There are exceptions to this : obviously in examples 9, 10, u, 12, and 15, where the dash is at the...

...February 26, 1736. her royal lover was patent to all the world besides. Realising the advisability to be off with the old love before he was on with the new, Frederick sent Lord Baltimore to Miss Vane, commanding her to live abroad for a period, on pain of...

...have been written ; he only feels that the stop is otiose, and that his author had better have been off with the old love before he was on with the new. There are exceptions to this : obviously in examples 9, 10, n, 12, and 15, where the dash is at the...