 | S. W. Fallon - 2000 - 690 pagine
...ditch. Ргот. Shaitân ki maul Tea etebar kyd 1 (lito mará jab jänyejab tija, ho jaê. Prou ) The devil was sick, the devil a monk would be, The devil was well, the devil a monk was he. Para Shmtun jab mdndah to ki tab fd te taubah, [thä. Uthä jab gusl tehhat pá, to phir pable te duynâ... | |
 | American Catholic Historical Society of Philadelphia - 1914 - 406 pagine
...the devil a bit for love, I'll tell you, Sir." And there is the well-known couplet from Urquhart : The devil was sick, the devil a monk would be; The devil was well, the devil a monk was he! — in which there is a play on the word devil. The final illustration given by Dr. Flood is : " risible... | |
 | Ross McKibbin - 1998 - 588 pagine
...employers have become co-operative and industrial relations have improved? Someone gets up and recites: "The Devil was sick, the Devil a monk would be; The Devil was well, the Devil a monk he'd be'.1" This hostility was sometimes attributed to an ideological anti-capitalism.123 It is true,... | |
 | Edward Geoffrey Parrinder, Geoffrey Parrinder - 2000 - 389 pagine
...manly man, to be an abbot able. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, 'Prologue', 169-71(1387) 1 1 The devil was sick, the devil a monk would be; The devil was well, and the devil a monk he'd be. Francois Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel, iv, 24 (1534) trans. PA... | |
 | Herman Jensen - 2000 - 532 pagine
...forgotten in calms." " They who worship God merely for fear, would worship the devil should he appear." " The devil was sick, the devil a monk would be ; The devil grew well, the devil a monk was he." 3415. tí QwQeo iSpSfyuQuitA. Like standing on dirt. Used of the... | |
 | Anthony Lejeune - 2001 - 344 pagine
...it not be an omen. A guilty intention, not just the act, makes a man guilty. With a grain of salt. The devil was sick, the devil a monk would be; The devil got well, the devil a monk was he. In difficult times, keep calm. Triple bronze (ie immensely durable).... | |
 | Sheri McInnis - 2003 - 384 pagine
...way to say it. "It just wouldn't be right." And I know what he's thinking: Right for whom? THIRTY-ONE The devil was sick, the devil a monk would be; the devil was well, the devil a monk he'd be. PETER ANTHONY MOTTEUX IONMURA An is crowded for a midweek night, the din of voices and laughter... | |
 | Charles Haddon Spurgeon - 716 pagine
...peace; and thus should all good men do; not like the cunning devil, of whom the epigrammatist writeth: The devil was sick, the devil a monk would be ; The devil was well, the devil a monk was he. Nor like unto many now-a-days, that if God's hand do but lie somewhat heavy upon them, oh, what promises,... | |
 | Francois Rabelais - 2006 - 266 pagine
...and a half. He is resolved to make good the Lombardic proverb, Passato el pericolo, gabbato el santo. The devil was sick, the devil a monk would be; The devil was well, the devil a monk was he. Chapter 25 How, after the storm, Pantagruel went on shore in the islands of the Macreons. *** Immediately... | |
 | George Latimer Apperson - 2006 - 656 pagine
...head, there will be the devil to pay, and no pitch hot. 1922: Wcyman, Oi'ington's Bank, ch xxvi. 88. The devil was sick, the devil a monk would be; The devil was well, the devil a monk was he. | c. 1450: W. Bower, Scutichronicon, ii 292 (Goodall), quoted in N.&Q., 8th ser, xii 331, I .upus langucbat... | |
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The devil was sick, the devil a monk would be ; The devil was well, the devil a monk was he. 
