 | Walter Scott - 1860 - 406 pagini
...returned 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 mouk was he." VOL. XV. P " Thou say'st true," said the Solitary ; "as well divide a wolf from his appetite... | |
 | John Alfred Langford - 1861 - 400 pagini
...ringing in your ears the dreary, monotonous, and unpleafant old proverb:— " When the devil was fick, the devil a monk would be ; When the devil was well, the devil a monk was he." You cannot believe the man. His oblivioufnefs of the paft is as great as if he had drunk of Lethe's... | |
 | 1861 - 580 pagini
...command, and what would become of the religious instinct? where would'go those pious aspirations ? ' WHEN the Devil was sick, The Devil a monk would be ; When the Devil got well, The devil a monk was he!' I repeated frequently to myself as I asked the question. You see,... | |
 | Edwin Percy Whipple - 1861 - 420 pagini
...illness and feebleness which his debaucheries have occasioned, thus illustrating the old proverb, — "When the devil was sick, the devil a monk would be; When the devil waa well, the devil a monk was he." He has almost constantly by him a choice cdterie of boon companions,... | |
 | 1861 - 584 pagini
...edition, 1G68, with numerous MS. additions.] THE DEVIL. — What is the history of the couplet — " When the Devil was sick, the Devil a monk would be ; When the Devil got well, the Devil a monk was he " ? JET [" According (says Bailey) to an old monkish rhyme: Daemon... | |
 | Franz Pfeiffer, Karl Bartsch, Otto Behaghel - 1862 - 522 pagini
...„Wenn der Teufel krank wird, will er ein Mönch werden," Simrock Nr. 10207; sowie das englische: „When the devil was sick, the devil a monk would...When the devil was "well, the devil a monk was he. — In Betreff des italien. Sprichwortes: „II lupo cangia il pelo ma non il vizio" batte Ref. in... | |
 | 1885 - 676 pagini
...and I said if I could only get home to England I would be a different man. You know the old lines, " When the devil was sick, the devil a monk would be...When the devil was well, the devil a monk was he." So, my friends, when I got well again it was only to be worse instead of better. I was wilder than... | |
 | FRANZ PFEIFFER - 1862 - 520 pagini
...„Wenn der Teufel krank wird, will er ein Mönch werden," Simrock Nr. 10207; sowie das englische: „When the devil was sick, the devil a monk would...When the devil was well, the devil a monk was he. — In Betreff des Italien. Sprichwortes: „II lupo cangia il pelo ma non il vizio" hatte Ref. in... | |
 | Richard Burleigh Kimball - 1862 - 444 pagini
...command, and what would become of the religious instinct? where would go those pious aspirations ? " When the devil was sick, The devil a monk would be ; When the devil got well, The devil a monk was he I" I repeated frequently to myself as I asked the question. You see,... | |
 | Franz Pfeiffer, Karl Bartsch, Otto Behaghel - 1862 - 520 pagini
...„Wenn der Teufel krank wird, will er ein Mönch werden," Simrock Nr. 10207; sowie das englische: „When the devil was sick, the devil a monk would be — When the devil wasTwell, the devil a monk was he. — In Betreff des Italien. Sprichwortes: „U lupo cangia il pelo... | |
| |
When the devil was sick, the devil a monk would be, When the devil was well, the devil a monk was he. 
