 | Mrs. Alexander - 1900 - 312 páginas
...Exactly ! Yet I hope you will not abandon me to my evil doctrines. I am quite willing to be converted." "When the Devil was sick, the Devil a Monk would be ; When the Devil was well, the Devil a Monk was he." quoted Mrs. Merivale, smiling. "I fear my malady will not be so speedily... | |
 | 1899 - 780 páginas
...first to take the easy doses of reform, and to exhibit the magic transformations of the prison panacea. "When the devil was sick, the devil a monk would be. When the devil got well, the devil a monk was he." It is said the devil can "clothe himself as an angel of light."... | |
 | Isaac Broome - 1902 - 222 páginas
...conditions in the colony by mental science meetings, which they keep up persistently every evening. "When the devil was sick, the devil a monk would be, When the devil got well, the devil a monk was he." How like a church service it is in the schoolhouse. Even the mockers... | |
 | American Academy of Medicine - 1902 - 912 páginas
...of existence every homeopathic physician in the United States. They remind one of the old couplet ' When the devil was sick, the devil a monk would be.' " When they need help they will do anything, but let them get the power in their hands and they forget. Like... | |
 | Theodore Isaac Holcombe - 1903 - 232 páginas
...Indian. But, as we have seen, Hole-in-the-day proved only a broken reed when the day of trial came. " When the devil was sick, the devil a monk would be ; when the devil was well, the devil a monk was he." Hole-in-the-day's life proved him both treacherous and cruel. With his own... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott, edited by J. Logie Robertson, M.A. - 1904 - 986 páginas
...cap, Shake at each nod that her caprice shall dictate. Old Play. Chap. XLIV. IV. FROM THE BLACK DWARF. WHEN the devil was sick, the devil a monk would be, When the devil was well, the devil a monk was he. Chap. vi. MOTTOES. So spak the knicht ; the geaunt sed — ' Lead forth with... | |
 | James Charles Wall - 1904 - 214 páginas
...had all the kingdoms of the world ; but God refused him even the rule of the swine." — Russian. " When the devil was sick, the devil a monk would be. When the devil was well, the devil a monk was he." — German. " Where they are singing one man may rest easy, said the devil,... | |
 | Thomas Edward Bridgett - 1904 - 544 páginas
...conviction of what he had always taught. There is no more satire on the monks than in the old lines : — When the devil was sick, the devil a monk would be, When the devil got well, the devil a monk was he. I draw attention, however, to this epigram and the comments of modern... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1905 - 322 páginas
...Iseult (Westou, II. 19-20). 873-875. A world of such experience is gathered into the rhyme : — " When the Devil was sick The Devil a monk would be. When the Devil was well. The devil a monk was he I ** 875-879. So would Tristan whisper : — " Heart's lady, sweet Iseult,... | |
 | Walter Lynwood Fleming - 1906 - 532 páginas
...Virginia]since the election of Grant, and several southern gentlemen about here are much more radical than I. "When the devil was sick the devil a monk would be; when the devil was well the devil a monk was he." Scores are getting down off the fence and are rushing wildly to the Republican... | |
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When the devil was sick, the devil a monk would be, When the devil was well, the devil a monk was he. 
