 | Alban Butler - 1857 - 950 pagine
...was elapsed, they sent scouts to the city which they had left quite empty, and, hearing that it (1) "The devil was sick, the devil a monk would be ; The devil was well, the devil no monk was he." (2) S. Ang. Senn. de Escidio Urbis, c. 6, t, vi. p. 627, eiBcn. was still standing,... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1857 - 520 pagine
...sound political health and in political indisposition, recalling the old couplet : The devil was ill, the devil a monk would be ; The devil was well, the devil a monk was he ! Now, we are not inclined to see Lord Palmerston made a sacrifice in this way to factious hopes of... | |
 | 1869 - 796 pagine
...about setting up his own ancient idol of carnelian, if he could find it. I whispered to Harrison : " The devil was sick ; the devil a monk would be : the devil got well ; the devil a monk was he." But my friend, with the unshakable affection of a humanitarian... | |
 | 1860 - 270 pagine
...maintenance of the great Democratic party North. It la no trouble for a man to be a saint in Heaven. " When the devil was sick. The devil a monk would be : The devil pot well, But devil a monk was he." (Great laughter.) We, the Democracy of the South, are mere carpetknights.... | |
 | Horace Greeley - 1860 - 250 pagine
...maintenance of the great Democratic party North. It is no trouble for a man to be a saint in Heaven. " When the devil was sick. The devil a, monk would be : The devil pt well, But devil a monk was he." (Great laughter.) * I I 1 11 We, the Democracy of the South, are... | |
 | 1861 - 258 pagine
...not princes who ride with the emperor' (Dutch).' The chamber of sickness is the chapel of devotion. The devil was sick, the devil a monk would be ; The devil grew well, the devil a monk was he ! 9 " All criminals turn preachers when they are under the gallows... | |
 | A. B. Blackie - 1861 - 376 pagine
...hands, and his recovery was scarcely complete when he had resorted to his old pernicious habits. " The devil was sick, the devil a monk would be : The devil grew well, the devil a monk was he.* One morning he waited upon his brother, and told him that he was... | |
 | John Cooper Grocott - 1863 - 562 pagine
...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 - 504 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.... | |
 | Edward James Mortimer Collins - 1865 - 288 pagine
...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... | |
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The devil was sick, the devil a monk would be ; The devil was well, the devil a monk was he. 
