| Costard Sly (pseud.) - 1834 - عدد الصفحات: 294
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 660
...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, when on our way... | |
| Robert Montgomery Bird - 1838 - عدد الصفحات: 260
...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, when on my way to... | |
| Sid Smith - 1838 - عدد الصفحات: 246
...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... | |
| Samuel Lover - 1839 - عدد الصفحات: 440
...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, it becomes necessary to... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart [novels, collected]) - 1839 - عدد الصفحات: 682
...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 appetite for carnage, or... | |
| Claudius James Rich - 1839 - عدد الصفحات: 490
...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... | |
| 1882 - عدد الصفحات: 324
...DISTICH ADAPTED TO AN AIR PROM ABADI'S OVEBTORE.— (Suggested by his Offer to enter a M»nastery.) — When the Devil was sick, The Devil a Monk would be...When the Devil was well, The Devil a Monk was he. INSTBTTMBNT OF WAR— A LOOT. Here is a representation of a modern Eminent Egyptians. IN spite of the... | |
| Walter Scott - 1843 - عدد الصفحات: 722
...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 monk was he." " Thou say'st true," said the Solitary ; " as well divide a wolf from his appetite for carnage, or... | |
| Walter Scott - 1843 - عدد الصفحات: 714
...the unabashed convalescent. " Ye .k. ii. ELihie, 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 appetite for carnage, or... | |
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