 | Biography - 1800 - 702 pages
...recal ; and from that moment he feems to have dropped all thoughts of the cowl. " The Devil was fick ; the Devil a monk would be ; " The Devil got well : — the Devil a monk was be" Ambition now appears to have taken complete pofleffion of the bofom of Potemkin ; and this was... | |
 | C. G. Hunter - Soviet Union - 1817 - 422 pages
...his mind, which occasioned the following lines to be written : " The devil was sick'; — the deril a monk would be; " The devil got well; — the devil a monk was he." f ' It was not merely the loss of his eye, but his being also in a temporary state of disgrace, being... | |
 | William Benbow - Church of England - 1823 - 336 pages
...inefficacy of auricular confession is manifest in this ; and the truth of the ancient couplet verified,, " The Devil fell sick, the devil a Monk would be ; The Devil got well, the Devil a Monk was he ;" for, no sooner was sickness removed from Mr. Sneyd's pillow, and health re-animated his frame, than... | |
 | William Hall (of Chorley.) - 1825 - 36 pages
...— if ever it existed — fled ! The flag of defiance was immediately hoisted — . " The Devil was sick — the Devil a monk would be : " The Devil got well — the devil a monk was he !" Just so with Harrison ! — Acting in concert with my fellow sufferers, 1 waited on Harrison in... | |
 | Alexander Kilgour (M.D.) - 1825 - 234 pages
...was the same freethinking, thankless dog as ever ; thus verifying the old distich, " The devil was sick — the devil a monk would be—- The devil got well— the devil a monk was he." As there was a thick fog in the air, Mr. Benson resolved to lay to until it cleared away, and we all... | |
 | William Hone - Almanacs, English - 1828 - 514 pages
...trick, when he'returned to his old malpractices ; exemplifying the old epigram — " The deril was sick, the devil a monk would be, The devil got well* the devil a monk was he." In the second verse of the legend of "The Trailer's Gill," it is said, And the elfin band from faCric... | |
 | William Hone - Almanacs, English - 1828 - 468 pages
...he'returned о his old malpractices ; exemplifying the M epigram— , " The devil was sick, th< deril a monk would be. The devil got well, the devil a monk was he." In the second verse of the legend of "The [roller's Gill," it is said, And the elan band from faerie... | |
 | Robert Plumer Ward - 1837 - 318 pages
...Fair Trader : — exemplifying in this the moral of the philosophical old song — " The Devil was sick, The Devil a Monk would be ; The Devil got well— The Devil a Monk was he." Willoughby, who gave me this account, .and who actually went again to Nantes to ascertain his real... | |
 | Robert Plumer Ward - English fiction - 1837 - 204 pages
...another Fair Trader:—exemplifying in this the moral of the philosophical old song— " The Devil was sick, The Devil a Monk would be; The Devil got well— The Devil a Monk was he." Willoughby, who gave me this account, and who actually went again to Nantes to ascertain his real situation,... | |
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The devil was sick, the devil a monk would be ; The devil got well, the devil a monk was he. 
