 | Samuel Smiles - 1881 - 314 pagine
...recovered his health, he forgot to subscribe for "The Navvy's Home," and the scheme fell to the ground. The devil was sick, the devil a monk would be : The devil was well, the devil a monk was he." CHAPTER XIV. HEALTHY HOMES. "The best security for civilization is the dwelling." — B. DISRAELI.... | |
 | Missouri Bar Association - 1915 - 274 pagine
...— for instance: Rabelais libeled his satanic majesty himself if he falsely wrote his famous lines: "The devil was sick — the devil a monk would be; The devil was well — the devil a monk was lie." Both must face a jury if either side calls for one and for both the jury are, under our constitution,... | |
 | David Garrick - 1798 - 284 pagine
...success of my folly. Mrs Wild. I am confident of it - -don't mind her , Mr Hazard, but follow me. Pen. The devil was sick, the devil a monk would be; The devil was well, the devil a monk was he. B ACT IV SCENE, WILDING'S souse. Enter Mrs WILDING and BARNACLE. BARMACLB. UT has not master Hazard,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1900 - 154 pagine
...famous lines which should be remembered. Faith to the queen makes him unfaithful to the king. 875. " The devil was sick, the devil a monk would be; The devil was well, the devil a monk was he." — Rabelais. 885. " Ere her time," that is, before evening. 889-893. Notice how many of Tennyson's... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1918 - 690 pagine
...going to be quite different after the war, I cannot help recalling that in the old days I often heard ' The devil was sick ; the devil a monk would be. The devil got well ; the devil a monk was he.' If England is making good resolutions upon a bed of sickness patriotism... | |
 | Henry Fielding - 1992 - 770 pagine
...still at war. 424 (p. 654) a low, disreputable tavern 425 (p. 657) See note 246 above. 426 (p. 658) 'The devil was sick, the devil a monk would be; the devil was well, the devil a monk he'd be.' (proverb) 427 (p. 666) The 1723 statute imposed the death penalty for various offences against... | |
 | 1892 - 1092 pagine
...apposite to the subject are those pithy verses of the virile Babelias : " The Devil was sick, the Devil n monk would be; The Devil was well, the devil a monk was he." * Such, in brief, are the more common symptoms of the ordinary form of therapeutic nihilism, although... | |
 | Emanuel Strauss - 1994 - 616 pagine
...szczçScie dojrzeje i kapton zapieje b) komu siç szczesci, to mu i wilk woly popasie 1656 English: a) the devil was sick, the devil a monk would be; the devil was well, the devil a monk was he b) when it thunders, the thief becomes honest German: a) als David kam ins Alter macht er Psalter b)... | |
 | Hereward Carrington - 1996 - 90 pagine
...they bother about their own health; and then it is often too late. One is reminded of the old saying: "The devil was sick, the devil a monk would be; the devil got well, the devil a monk was he!" And I cannot help quoting a remark made by Dr. CE Page - typical... | |
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The devil was sick, the devil a monk would be ; The devil was well, the devil a monk was he. 
