 I will not be put to the question. Don't you consider, Sir, that these are not the manners of a gentleman? I will not be baited with what, and why; what is this? what is that? why is a cow's tail long? why is a fox's tail bushy?' The gentleman, who was...  Boswell's Life of Johnson: Life - Σελίδα 268των James Boswell, Samuel Johnson - 1887Πλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | Francis Fisher Browne - 1905 - 910 σελίδες
...protest. ' I will not be baited with what and why,' exclaimed poor Johnson one day in desperation. ' Why is a •cow's tail long? Why is a fox's tail bushy?' The following, abo, must have been called forth after the master had been badgered beyond •endurance... | |
 | James Boswell - 1907 - 638 σελίδες
...Don't you consider, Sir, that these are not the manners of a gentleman ? I will not be baited with what and why ; what is this ? what is that ? why is a cow's...no reason why you should be so ill." Talking of the Justitio hulk at Woolwich, in which criminals were punished, by being confined to labour, he said,... | |
 | Frank Frankfort Moore - 1910 - 534 σελίδες
...Don't you consider, sir, that these are not the manners of a gentleman ? I will not be baited with what and why. What is this ? What is that ? Why is a cow's tail long ? Why is a fox's tail bushy ? " Happily, he was so constituted as to be incapable of feeling such rebuffs. He alluded to them under... | |
 | Hugh Chisholm - 1910 - 1056 σελίδες
...imperturbable good nature and persistency (" Sir, I will not be baited with ' what ' and ' why.' ' Why is a cow's tail long?' ' Why is a fox's tail bushy?' "), and even in the abnegation of all personal dignity, with which Boswell pursued his hero. As he... | |
 | 1910 - 1066 σελίδες
...imperturbable good nature and persistency (" Sir, I will not be baited with * what ' and ' why.' ' Why is a cow's tail long?' ' Why is a fox's tail bushy?' "), and even in the abnegation of all personal dignity, with which Boswell pursued his hero. As he... | |
 | 1910 - 1050 σελίδες
...imperturbable good nature and persistency (" Sir, I will not be baited with 4 what ' and ' why.' ' Why is a cow's tail long?" ' Why is a fox's tail bushy?' "), and even in the abnegation of all personal dignity, with which Boswell pursued his hero. As he... | |
 | Frank Frankfort Moore - 1911 - 528 σελίδες
...the manners of a gentleman ? I will not be baited with what and why. What is this ? What is that f Why is a cow's tail long ? Why is a fox's tail bushy ? " Happily, he was so constituted as to be incapable of feeling such rebuffs. He alluded to them under... | |
 | George Mallory - 1912 - 364 σελίδες
...Don't you consider, Sir, that these are not the manners of a gentleman ? I will not be baited with what and why ; what is this ? what is that ? why is a cow's tail long ? why is a fox's tail bushy ? ' ' Sir,' he said on one occasion, ' you have but two topicks, yourself and me. I am sick of both.'... | |
 | 1914 - 534 σελίδες
...earned immortality in the Dunciad," and "What is this, Sir? I will not be baited thus with questions. 'Why is a cow's tail long?' 'Why is a fox's tail bushy?'" Full justice can never be done while a few outbursts are made to represent the stuff of a twenty years'... | |
 | 1914 - 546 σελίδες
...earned immortality in the Dunciad," and "What is this, Sir? I will not be baited thus with questions. 'Why is a cow's tail long?' 'Why is a fox's tail bushy?'" Full justice can never be done while a few outbursts are made to represent the stuff of a twenty years'... | |
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