 | Hester Lynch Piozzi - World history - 1801 - 1008 pages
...languebat, monachus tune efle volebat ; Ail ubi convaluit, in.inlit ut ante Am. When the devil was fick, the devil a monk would be ; But when the devil was well, the devil a monk was he — was made on that occafion. A daughter of his, before he turned friar, named Petronilla,... | |
 | Augustus Toplady - 1825 - 484 pages
...acrimony, zeal, and want of argument as ever. — This behaviour reminds me of an old proverb : . " When the devil was sick, The devil a monk would be ; But, when the devil grew well, A SHORT time before the demise of queen Anne, as bishop Burnet was riding slowly in his... | |
 | Guards - 1827 - 294 pages
...adhere to the creed of his forefathers: for of the aged Peer it might be said with much truth, that " When the devil was sick, the devil a monk would be: (But) When the devil got well, the devil a monk was he!" Nevertheless, young hopeful changed his religion for the love of... | |
 | Thomas Adolphus Trollope - France - 1841 - 438 pages
...prince made, under the circumstances, so ill-judged and injudicious a vow before ! But we know that "When the devil was sick, the devil a monk would be ; But when the devil got well, the devil a monk was he !" However, a vow is a vow, and must be disposed of in some way.... | |
 | 1850 - 628 pages
...William is very often inclined to become a Catholic, whenever he is unwell. It is the old saying — ' When the devil was sick, the devil a monk would be, But when the devil got well, the devil a monk was he.'" " Nay," replied Sir William, " I only listen to your preachments,... | |
 | Charles James Cannon - American fiction - 1859 - 288 pages
...resolution of amendment, to be broken upon the first promise of returning health, for we are told that " When the devil was sick, the devil a monk would be," but, it is immediately added, that " When the devil got well — the devil a monk was he." " O, Mr. Dapper,"... | |
 | Alexander Lovett Stimson - Enslaved persons - 1864 - 494 pages
...that returns—" "I know the text," he shouted, interrupting me. " But you know the old song :— ' When the devil was sick, The devil a monk would be; But when the devil got well, The devil a monk was he! " Knowing well the foul condition of the weapon he held, and which... | |
 | Robert Ellis Thompson, William Wilberforce Newton, Otis H. Kendall - 1872 - 722 pages
...fearfully lax when out in the wicked world. Coleridge ascribes this same tendency to Satan : " Now when the Devil was sick, the Devil a monk would be, But when the Devil got well, the Devil a monk was he." If, then, we all live, influenced by our surroundings more than... | |
 | College students' writings, Irish (English) - 1873 - 466 pages
...with a youthful fire; I fell in awe Upon my knees before him. TALFOURD. 'HEN the Devil was sick in bed The Devil a monk would be ; But when the Devil was well again The devi a monk was he. INCERT. io6 107 Eifrep Karel&ov deofj,vcrfj Trpa^iv Trapiav Keivriv,... | |
 | Arthur Cayley Headlam - Religion - 1878 - 578 pages
...habitual frame of mind ? There is as much truth as there is exquisite wit in the old couplet — ' When the devil was sick, The devil a monk would be, But when the devil got well The devil a monk was he.' And, surely, in this point of view we see the inexpressible cruelty... | |
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When the Devil was sick, The Devil a monk would be; But when the Devil got well, The Devil a monk was he. 
