 | John Cooper Grocott - 1863
...and between each capital is a period, so that the reader is for some time puzzled to make it out.] The devil was sick, the .devil a monk would be; The devil was well, the devil a monk was he. RARELAIS.— Vol. II. Book IV. Chap. XXIV. DEVOTION.— With devotion's visage, And pious action, we... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1865 - 480 pagine
...moutons," a proverb taken from the old French Farce of Pierre PateKn. £lE CERVANTES. — HOBBES. 367 The Devil was sick, the Devil a monk would be ; The Devil was well, the Devil a monk was he. Book iv. Ch. 24. MIGUEL DE CERVANTES. 1547-1616. Every one is the son of his own works. Don Quixote.... | |
 | 1865
...revelled in Richmond dinners and Cremorne suppers, in chicken hazard, and humbug, lansquenet and poker. "The devil was sick, the devil a monk would be ; The devil got well, the devil a monk was he." "Gad," he thought, "I must hack Spartacus for the Grand Prix and... | |
 | Edward James Mortimer Collins - 1865
...revelled in Richmond dinners and Cremorne suppers, in chicken hazard and humbug, lansquenet and poker. " The devil was sick, the devil a monk would be ; The devil got well, the devil a monk was he." "Gad," he thought, "I must back Spartacus for the Grand Prix and... | |
 | Thomas Brooks - 1867
...tune ette volebat, t'<in 1-1,1,1 it daemon, monachtu tune ette nolebat:' Which is thus Englished : — The devil was sick, the devil a monk would be ; The devil was well, the devil n monk was he.* But those who are now like to Satan in sin, may hereafter be like to him in torment.... | |
 | Henry Thomas Riley - 1866 - 556 pagine
...detestable of all?" Sgrotat dcemon, monachus tune esse volebat ; Dcemon convaluit, dcemon ut antefuit. " The devil was sick, the devil a monk would be ; The devil got well, the devil a monk was he." Lines composed in the middle ages. Egrotaiiones animi, querlis... | |
 | Richard Hobson - 1866 - 319 pagine
...future, hut "JEgrotat d<vmon monachus tune esse vohbat ; Dcemon convaluit, daemon ut ante fuit." " The Devil was sick, the Devil a monk would be ; The Devil got well, the Devil a monk was he." Mr. Waterton's chief and never- failing delight appeared to be... | |
 | Thomas Brooks - 1867
...monachus tune use volebat, Convaluit daemon, monachus tune eue nolebat:' Which is thus Englished : — The devil was sick, the devil a monk would be ; The devil was well, the devil a monk was he.* But those who are now like to Satan in sin, may hereafter be like to him in torment. Such who now outlive... | |
 | George Huntington - 1867
...drink, I shall be saved go as by fire ;" them were his Bible words. Myself.— The old story : — " The devil was sick, the devil a monk would be, The devil got well, the devil a monk was he." Martha Bateson. — Mr. Brown, I'm ashamed o' yo' to talk o' monks... | |
 | Richard Hobson - 1867 - 375 pagine
...future, but " JEgrotut daemon, monachus tune esse volebat ; Damon conmluit, dcemon nt ante fv.it." " The Devil was sick, the Devil a monk would be ; The Devil got well, the Devil a monk was he." When the Squire was well and mentally undisturbed by trifling mishaps... | |
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The devil was sick, the devil a monk would be ; The devil was well, the devil a monk was he. 
