 | Henry Robert Addison - 1838 - 648 pages
...or he may get well and grow fierce again; for according to the English lines " The Devil was sick, the Devil a monk would be, " The Devil was well, the Devil a monk was he I ! 214 THE ROUfi. " But I forgot. Have you a passport?" Armande disgusted at his levity, merely bowed... | |
 | Alban Butler - Fathers of the church - 1845 - 272 pages
...temptations. (1) S. Aug. Serm. de Excidio Urbis, c. 6. t. 6. p. 627. ed Ben. • The devil was sick, the devil a monk would be ; The devil was well, the devil no monk was he. FEBRUARY XX. SS. TYRANNIC, BISHOP OF TYRE, ZENOBIUS AND OTHERS, MARTYRS IN PHOENICIA,... | |
 | François Rabelais - 1849 - 594 pages
...resolved to make good the Lombardic proverb, Passato el pericolo,' gabbato elsanto.3 The devil was sick, the devil a monk would be ; The devil was well, the devil a monk was he. Ot CHAP. XVIII. ity1 THE six FOLLOWING. —These chapters contain a description of a dreadful storm,... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1884 - 668 pages
...hymns which, like this, have been ascribed to Marvell. ATR MURRAY.— The lines, " The devil was sick, the devil a monk would be; The devil was well, the devil a monk was he," are in the translation of Rabelais by Urquhart and Motteux, lib. iv. rh. 24. They do not occur in the... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1884 - 672 pages
...hymns which, like this, have been ascribed to Marvel!. ATR MURRAY.— The lines, " The devil was sick, the devil a monk would be; The devil was well, the devil a monk was he," are in the translation of Rabelais by Urquhart and Mptteux, lib. iv. i-li. 24. They do not occur in... | |
 | Dr. Doran (John) - Diet - 1854 - 564 pages
...for the observation of the former ; all which verifieth the old verses : — " ' The devil was sick, the devil a monk would be. The devil was well, the devil a monk was he.' " George Fox, the father of the Quakers, remarks in his Journal, of the Puritans and their fasts: —... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1856 - 660 pages
...necessity virtue. Book iv. Chapter 23. I 'll go his halves. Book iv. Chapter 24. The Devil was sick, the Devil a monk would be ; The Devil was well, the Devil a monk was he. MIGUEL DE CERVANTES. 1547-1616. Don Quixote. Translated by Jarvis. Part i. Book iv. Ch. 20. Every one... | |
 | Dr. Doran (John) - 1857 - 530 pages
...for the observation of the former ; all which verifieth the old verses : — " ' The devil was sick, the devil a monk would be. The devil was well, the devil a monk was he.' " George Fox, the father of the Quakers, remarks in his Journal, of the Puritans and their fasts :... | |
 | Gideon Haynes - Belmont (Mass.) - 1857 - 60 pages
...0. MEAD, 'Change Avenue." Mr. President, this reminds me of the old song:— " The devil was sick, The devil a monk would be ; The devil was well, * The devil a monk was he." So it seems when Mr. Mead has land to sell, he has good schools quite near, but when he comes in here... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1857 - 520 pages
...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... | |
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The devil was sick, the devil a monk would be ; The devil was well, the devil a monk was he. 
