 | Frank Frankfort Moore - 1911 - 528 sivua
...shouted, " 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 f Why is a cow's tail long ? Why is a fox's tail bushy ? " Happily, he was so constituted as to be... | |
 | George Mallory - 1912 - 364 sivua
...endurance. ' 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...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 sivua
...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 sivua
...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'... | |
 | James Boswell - 1916 - 370 sivua
...you consider, Sir. that these are not the manners of a gentleman ? I will not be baited with ichat and why : what is this? what is that? why is a cow's...venture to trouble you." JOHNSON. "Sir, my being so yowl is no reason why you should be so ill. ' ' On Wednesday, April 15, I dined with Dr. Johnson at... | |
 | Desmond MacCarthy - 1918 - 256 sivua
...those who meet each other with great joy, weep when they meet ? These questions, Why is this ? Why is that ? Why is a cow's tail long ? Why is a fox's bushy ? are quite uninteresting to many ; but they are not so to all, and it is to such my concluding... | |
 | Robert Lynd - 1928 - 266 sivua
...was being " teased with questions." " Don't you consider, Sir, that these are not the manners of a gentleman? I will not be baited with what and why:...Why is a cow's tail long? Why is a fox's tail bushy? " And, another day, when he heard Boswell asking Levett a long series of questions about him, Johnson... | |
 | Christopher Hollis - 1928 - 240 sivua
...his inquisitiveness was more than Johnson • could bear. " I will not be baited with what and why. Why is a cow's tail long ? Why is a fox's tail bushy ? " Or, " Sir, you have but two subjects, yourself and me. I am sick of both." " Pray, sir," said Boswell,... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne - 1905 - 920 sivua
...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, also, must have been called forth after the master had been badgered beyond endurance by... | |
 | 1918 - 458 sivua
...by EDMUND GOSSE. Chiswick Press. 1892. 6. The Survival of Man. By Sir OLIVER LODGE. Methuen. 19o9. WHY is a cow's tail long ? Why is a fox's tail bushy ? ' Thus Dr. Johnson mocked at Boswell's importunate demands for explanations ; but Boswell was giving... | |
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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... 
