 | Walter Wilson - 1830 - 556 páginas
...invasions are over ; and they have forgotten the vows of their distress ; verifying an old distich, — " When the devil was sick, the devil a monk would be ; When the devil was well, the devil a monk was he."t The arbitrary proceedings of the king, but more especially his open and... | |
 | 1837 - 1322 páginas
...as might be suspected, the fit of devotion is of no longer duration than the time of imprisonment. " When the devil was sick, the devil a monk would be ; When the devil was well, the devil a monk was he"— applies very well to the history of cave conversions. We had the good fortune,... | |
 | Costard Sly - 1833 - 240 páginas
...rhyme, I beg you will not look upon it as a FICTION. THE DEVI L'S FEVER: A POEM. BY HENRY WARING, ESQ. " When the Devil was sick, the devil a monk would be, When the devil got well, the devil a monk wai he." (Hit Hliyire THE DEVIL'S FEVER. ON hia brimstone* couch, in the... | |
 | Costard Sly (pseud.) - 1834 - 294 páginas
...will not look upon it as a FICTION. • eW . I . THE DEVIL'S FEVER: AI?©! BY HENRY WARING, Esa. «' When the Devil was sick, the devil a monk would be, When the devil got well, the devil a monk was lie," OM Rhyme. '! T THE DEVIL'S FEVER, ON his brimstone * couch, in... | |
 | 1837 - 660 páginas
...as might be suspected, the fit of devotion is of no longer duration than the time of imprisonment. " When the devil was sick, the devil a monk would be ; When the devil was well, the devil a monk was he" — applies very well to the history of cave conversions. We had the good... | |
 | Robert Montgomery Bird - 1838 - 260 páginas
...might be suspected, the fit of devotion is of no longer duration than the lime of imprisonment : " When the devil was sick, the devil a monk would be; When the devil was well, the devil a monk was he" — applies very well to the history of cave conversions. I had the good fortune,... | |
 | Sid Smith - 1838 - 246 páginas
...conversions; and much emaciation, or a diminished supply of blood, has been the source of the couplet, " When the devil was sick, the devil a monk would be; When the devil grew well, the devil a monk was he." The conversions of Sir Matthew Hale and Colonel Gardiner, took... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart [novels, collected]) - 1839 - 682 páginas
...the unabashed convalescent. " Ye ken, Elshie, for they say ye are weel acquent wi' the gentleman, ' When the devil was sick, the devil a monk would be, When the devil was well, the devil a monk was he.' " " Thou say'st true," said the Solitary ; " as well divide a wolf from his... | |
 | Samuel Lover - 1839 - 440 páginas
...THE THIRD. CHAPTER XXIX. SHOWING HOW LIKE A GENTLEMAN A TINKER IS WHEN HE THINKS HE IS DYING. . • " When the devil was sick, the devil a monk would be, When the devil was well, the devil a monk was he." To account for the presence of Regan in the glen of the Folly at this time,... | |
 | Claudius James Rich - 1839 - 490 páginas
...Armenians, and broken all the jars. They have also turned the dancers and singers out of the town. " When the devil was sick, the devil a monk would be ; When the devil grew well, the devil a monk was he." As some of Major Litchfield's people were going into the town... | |
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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. 
