 | 1877 - 362 pagine
...Ibid., Merchant of Venice. — The DEVIL hath power to assume a pleasing shape. Ibid., Hamlet. — The DEVIL was sick, the Devil a monk would be ; The Devil was well, the Devil a monk was he. RARELAIS. — God never had a church but there, men say, The DEVIL a chapel had raised by some wyles.... | |
 | Desiderius Erasmus - 1878 - 480 pagine
...Calamity or Sickness, then I betake myself to Philosophy, etc. 129 This recalls the noted distich : "The devil was sick, the devil a monk would be, The devil was well, the devil a monk was he." The Comedian ... ... ... ... ... ... 130 Terence. That expression of the Satyrist, etc 131 The line is... | |
 | Desiderius Erasmus - 1878 - 506 pagine
...Sickness, then I betake myself to Philosophy, etc. ... ... ... 129 This recalls the noted distich : "The devil was sick, the devil a monk would be, The devil was well, the devil a monk was he." Tlie Comedian ... ... ... ... ... ... 130 That expression of the Satyrist, etc ... 131 The line is... | |
 | Where, Who - 1878 - 186 pagine
...Alarm. The Devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. SHAKSPEAEE, The Merchant of Venice, act i. sc. 3. The Devil was sick, the Devil a monk would be ; The Devil was well, the Devil a monk was he. Rabelais. The divine Milton. WORDSWORTH, The Excursion, bk. i. The end must justify the means. PRIOR,... | |
 | Sidney John Hervon Herrtage - 1879 - 612 pagine
...Lat. texts] drfuncii. p. 271, 1. 11. [Hazlitt, Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases, under the proverb " The Devil was sick, the Devil a monk would be ; The Devil was well, the Devil a monk was he," gives the usual Latin form — " Agrotat Daemon, monachal tune este volebat ; Conralmt Dtemon, tails... | |
 | Sidney John Hervon Herrtage - 1879 - 610 pagine
...texts] defuncti. p. 271, 1. 11. 11 [i•...in, Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases, under the proverb " The Devil was sick, the Devil a monk would be ; The Devil was well, the Devil a monk was he," gives the usual Latin form— " Agrotat Desman, monachat t1me etie volebat; Contain 11 Diemon, talis... | |
 | John Sherman - 1879 - 664 pagine
...bv deficiency bills. It is the old demagogical trick of a party in opposition wishing to gain power. The devil was sick, the devil a monk would be ; The devil was well, the devil a monk was ha» It is easy to cut down appropriations, but this is not always retrenchment. A man might retrench... | |
 | Sidney John Hervon Herrtage - 1879 - 610 pagine
...Lat. texts] defuncti. p. 271, 1. 11. [Hazlitt, Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases, under the proverb " The Devil was sick, the Devil a monk would be ; The Devil was well, ihe Devil a monk was he," gives the usual Latin form — " Agrotat Dœmon, monachus tune este volebat... | |
 | Allen Thorndike Rice - 1879 - 506 pagine
...him, and sets out upon his travels. As soon as his back is turned, Alexis realizes the old distich : " The devil was sick, the devil a monk would be ; The devil got well, the devil a monk was he." He recovers his health instantaneously, and celebrates his father's... | |
 | Parsons Brainard Cogswell - 1880 - 540 pagine
...they can recall, and making all sorts of rash reformatory promises. It is the old story over again : The Devil was sick, the Devil a monk would be ; The Devil was well, the Devil a monk was he. This reminds us that Naples is a city of churches, having upwards of 300, and yet there is not one... | |
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The devil was sick, the devil a monk would be ; The devil was well, the devil a monk was he. 
