 | Quotations, English - 1882 - 1434 pages
...name IB heard no more in heaven. c. MSLION — Paradise Lost. Bk. V. Line 658. The Devil was sick, rasshopper a be. 4 EABHAIS— Works. Bk. IV. Ch. XXIV. Let me say amen betimes, lest the devil cross my prayers.... | |
 | Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 pages
...Boot ii. Ch. 32, ad Jin. I '11 go his halves. Book iv. Ch. 23. The Devil was sick, the Devil a mouk would be ; The Devil was well, the Devil a monk was he. Ch. 24. MIGUEL DE CERVANTES. 1547-1 GIG. Too much of a good thing. Don Quixote* Part i. Soot i. Ch.... | |
 | Ferencz Bizonfy - English language - 1886 - 494 pages
...devil is not so black as he is painted; beteg volt az — s barat akait lenni, the devil was sick, the devil a monk would be, the devil was well, the devil a monk was he ; — seg, fn. devilishness ; a confounded business ; — iizes, fn. exorcism ; — uzo,/n. exorcist.... | |
 | James Samuel Stone - England - 1887 - 418 pages
...parish. Too often in such cases, it is to be feared, the old adage was verified : " The devil was sick : The devil a monk would be ; The devil was well : The devil a monk was he." Anti-climaxes and oddities are frequent and help to brighten the daily round. The other day I saw a... | |
 | Maxims - 1887 - 1332 pages
...closed door. Ital., Sp. 112. The devil was handsome when he was young. Fr. 113. The devil was sick, the devil a monk would be, The devil was well, the devil a monk was he. 114. The devil when he grows poor becomes an excise man. M.Greek. 115. The devil will not come into... | |
 | François Rabelais - Gargantua (Legendary character) - 1888 - 330 pages
...grain, a rogue enough, a rogue and a half. He is resolved to make good the proverb: The devil was sick, the devil a monk would be ; The devil was well, the devil a monk was he." CHAPTER XXV. Hffw, after the Storm, Pantagruel went on shore in the Islands of the Macreons. IMMEDIATELY... | |
 | 1890 - 580 pages
...the Devil? Consider, he is an enemy to mankind. — Shakespeare : Act iii. Wh j The Devil was sick, the Devil a monk would be ; \ The Devil was well, the Devil a monk was he. — Rabelais iv, 24. Where God erects a house of prayer, the Devil builds a chapel. — Defoe's True... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1890 - 546 pages
...us forcibly of another kind of conversion, under suspicious circumstances : — The Devil was sick, the Devil a monk would be, The Devil was well, the Devil a monk was he. RABELAIS. Often, too, during those centuries, voices saying, " Save us, we perish," were heard from... | |
 | Richard Francis Quigley - Bible - 1891 - 488 pages
...candor and honesty ! Ah ! we have heard before of such champions of sincerity : The Devil was sick, the Devil a monk would be : The Devil was well, the Devil a monk was he. Yet, I would not be thought out of sympathy with Ritualism in itself, and apart from the hypocrisy... | |
 | Questions and answers - 1892 - 412 pages
...Heart of Midlothian. " The Devil is not always at one door." — RAY'S Proverbs. " The Devil was sick, the Devil a monk would be, The Devil was well, the Devil a monk was he." " The deil was sick, the deil a monk wad be ; ' The deil grew hale, syne deil a monk was he." — FRANCIS... | |
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The devil was sick, the devil a monk would be ; The devil was well, the devil a monk was he. 
