 | Arthur Miall - 1884 - 432 Seiten
...of your motives. When well, your motives will be impugned with a view to depreciate your actions. ' I do not like thee, Dr. Fell, The reason why I cannot tell ; But this one thing I know full well, I do not like thee, Dr. Fell.' To this pass it invariably comes.... | |
 | Minot Judson Savage - 1884 - 224 Seiten
...can only state the fact. The whole philosophy of it is summed up in these very familiar lines : — " I do not like thee, Dr. Fell, The reason why I cannot tell ; But only this I know full well, I do not like thee, Dr. Fell." That is all we can say about it. We... | |
 | Thomas D. Worrall - 1884 - 218 Seiten
...a man of education and genius, but he is very unpopular." We were thus reminded of the old verses : "I do not like thee Dr. Fell ; The reason why I cannot tell, But still I know, and know full well, I do not like thee Dr. Fell." Now, here was a citizen, against... | |
 | 1884 - 628 Seiten
...magnetism and mesmerism, and that persons are attracted to each other or repelled, they cannot tell why. ' I do not like thee, Dr. Fell, The reason why, I cannot tell ; But this I know full well, That I don't like thee, Dr. Fell.' If, as is said, Canning wrote these... | |
 | George Ure - 1886 - 330 Seiten
...this prejudice, whim, or anything he likes. I may as well put it as in the well-known couplet— " I do not like thee, Dr Fell, The reason why I cannot tell." Black—lustrous black—is a grand colour, but I have never seen a really fine fantail of that colour.... | |
 | George Wall - 1887 - 442 Seiten
...sudden and inexplicable impulse. Of this latter class, a familiar example is given in the saying : " I do not like thee, Dr. Fell, The reason why I cannot tell, .... I do not like thee, Dr. Fell." Of the former, the word truth, so commonly used, and so well understood,... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1887 - 484 Seiten
...I quote the 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,... | |
 | 1890 - 616 Seiten
...the order. In one case the reasons for opposition were about as definite as the celebrated lines , '" I do not like thee, Dr. Fell, The reason why I cannot tell.' the following being copy of the notice of opposition, sent to the Board of Trade, with which we had... | |
 | Henry Thomas Scott - 1894 - 468 Seiten
...FECHTER, Charles, actor, ALS, 2 pp. 8vo, 4s. 6d. FELL, Dr. John, Bishop of Oxford, 1676, royalist, &c., "I do not like thee, Dr. Fell ; the reason why I cannot tell," &c., ALS, 1 p. 4to, and portrait, rare, £1 Is. FELLER, FX de, Belgian reviewer, author, &c., died... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck, Robert Arrowsmith - 1894 - 272 Seiten
...by Tom Brown on Dr. 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... | |
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I do not like thee, Dr Fell. The reason why I cannot tell, But this I know, I know full well, I do not like thee, Dr Fell. 
