 | English epigrams - 1878 - 464 pages
...the Latin of Martial. See No. CDXXXIII.] DCCCXL. ON DR. JOHN FELL, BISHOP OF OXFORD. I do not love thee, Doctor Fell ; The reason why, I cannot tell : But this I know, and know full well — I do not love thee, Doctor Fell. Anon. [From the Latin of Martial. Dr. Fell died in 1686.] DCCCXLI. ON A WINE... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1878 - 522 pages
...adaptation of one of Martial's best-known epigrams : — " THE PJL02 THAT WEATHERED THE STORM." 61 " I do not like thee, Doctor Fell, The reason why, I cannot tell ; But this I'm sure I know full well, I do not like thee, Doctor Fell." To a different feeling Canning appealed... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1878 - 516 pages
...adaptation of one of Martial's best-known epigrams : — " THE PILOT. THAT WEATHERED THE STORM." 61 " I do not like thee, Doctor Fell, The reason why, I cannot tell ; But this I'm sure I know full well, I do not like thee, Doctor Fell." To a different feeling Canning appealed... | |
 | Mary Patrick - 1878 - 350 pages
...hesitation caused by a want of words to express her not altogether clear impressions of the stranger — I do not like thee, Doctor Fell, The reason why I cannot tell. There, Harry, that's all I know about him.' ' What, you who can read a character in a minute or two... | |
 | Mrs. Molesworth - Adolescence - 1878 - 432 pages
...outside one he read, in grandmother's neat, clear handwriting, the words CHAPTEE X. " THAT CAD SAWYEK." " I do not like thee, Doctor Fell, The reason why I cannot tell." OLD KHYME. AND grandmother of course kept her promise. That evening she read it aloud. " They were... | |
 | James Jackson Wray - 1879 - 404 pages
...skilful mouse i' the fable, Could part the strands that hold him." Old Play. "I do not love thee. Dr. Fell, The reason why I cannot tell ; But this I know, and know full well, I do not love thee, Dr. Fell." Tom Rrtnvn. [E sad imputation which rested on the character and clouded the fair... | |
 | Ebenezer Cobham Brewer - Allusions - 1880 - 1200 pages
...«roan ; Hoc tantum possuc* djcvre. nun ашо te. Which he rendered thus : I do not like thr». Dr. Fell— The reason why I cannot tell : But this I know, and know full well. I do not like thee. Or Fell. Foltham (Black), a highwayman with captain Colepepper or Peppercull (the Alsatian bully).—... | |
 | George Walter Thornbury - 1880 - 604 pages
...by that disagreeable Dr. Fell, the subject of the well-known epigram, — " 1 do not like thce, Dr. Fell ; The reason why I cannot tell ; But this I know, and know full well, I do not like thee, Dr. Fell," who rudely called Hobbes " irritabile illiid ct vanissiiiium Malmsburimsc animal." The philosopher... | |
 | Alfred Rowland - Teaching - 1881 - 128 pages
...unfortunate author. Indeed, the truth expressed in the familiar couplet may be very widely applied — " I do not like thee, Doctor Fell, The reason why I cannot tell ; " for the bond of sympathy which is essential to our mutual interest, whether in public or in private... | |
 | Agriculture - 1862 - 612 pages
...opening will be better summed »p in the words of the old epigram :— " I do not like the*, DooUw Fell. The reason why I cannot tell ; But this I know, and that fall well, I do not like thee, Doctor Fell." Mr. Walter, however, who was present, still pressed... | |
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I do not like thee, Doctor Fell; The reason why I cannot tell; But this I know and know full well. I do not like thee. Doctor Fell! 
