 | John Henry Overton - 1885 - 426 pàgines
...chiefly known as a proverbial instance of unaccountable unpopularity. •I do not like thee, Doctor Fell, The reason why I cannot tell, But this I know full well, I do not like thee, Doctor Fell.' Everybody knows these lines, but everybody may not know that the person here... | |
 | 1887 - 418 pàgines
...information could be satisfied. They resemble that frank if somewhat illogical person who did not like Dr. Fell : "The reason why I cannot tell ; But this I know full well, I do not like thee, Dr. Fell." There is, indeed, this difference : they could tell "the reason why " easily... | |
 | Henry Brewster Stanton - 1887 - 324 pàgines
...accounted for his failure. He said some of his opponents were like those of Tom Brown's Doctor Fell: 7* " I do not love you, Dr. Fell, The reason why I cannot tell; But this alone I know full well — I do not love you, Doctor Fell." He was looking forward to a nomination... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1887 - 484 pàgines
...well-known epigram unwillingly, for the sake of the few to whom it may be unfamiliar : I do not like thee, Dr. Fell ; The reason why I cannot tell ; But this I know, and know full well, I do not like thee, Dr. Fell. A very deaf man, a deformed man, a quarrelsome and... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1888 - 346 pàgines
...allow him to explain it more fully ; * Thus Englished by the famous Tom Brown : " 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." and I take it to be this : " O Sabidis, you are... | |
 | Charles Haddon Spurgeon - 1889 - 362 pàgines
...a lecture with free admission, and paid the hire of the hall and his own expenses. " I do not like you, Dr. Fell ; The reason why I cannot tell ; But this I know, and know full well — I do not like you, Dr. Fell." Prejudice cannot give a reason for its own existence;... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1892 - 324 pàgines
...tantum possum dicere, non amo te "—* * Thus Englished by the famous Tom Brown : " 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" has puzzled a great many people; who cannot conceive... | |
 | 1894 - 1148 pàgines
...the non-acceptance of Major Morgan's magnanimous offer. Now listen with both ears, if you please: " I do not love you, Dr. Fell, The reason why I cannot tell ; But this, indeed, I know full well, I do not love you, Dr. Fell." I have the fact noted in my note-book here,... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck, Robert Arrowsmith - 1894 - 272 pàgines
...John Fell, Dean of Christ Church, Oxford, about 1670. It runs as follows : — " I do not like thee, Dr. Fell, The reason why I cannot tell ; But this I know and know full well, I do not like thee, Dr. Fell." A still earlier imitation in English is found in... | |
 | William M. Thayer - 1894 - 228 pàgines
...they could not like him, anyway. Another put the fact into verse as follows: — " 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." The man did not have good manners. He needed these... | |
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I do not love you.) Thomas Brown's famous translation read: 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. 
