 | Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh, Walter Raleigh - 1903 - 248 ページ
...questioner:— "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 ? " But children are only half-articulate, and the boy, seeking for help from the all-engrossing visible... | |
 | Leopold Damrosch - 1989 - 276 ページ
...witness is to guide his responses in some desired direction, and Johnson did not always care to be led: "I will not be baited with what, and why; what is...is a cow's tail long? why is a fox's tail bushy?" (Life 3:2.68). More seriously still, "Sir, you have but two topics, yourself and me. I am sick of both"... | |
 | Irma S. Lustig - 308 ページ
...what and why, what is this, what is that? why is a cow's tail long? why is a fox's tail bushy? . . . Why, Sir, you are so good, that I venture to trouble you. Sir, my being so good is no reason why you should be so /'//. (3: 268) The exchanges of Boswell and... | |
 | Peter Martin - 2002 - 644 ページ
...gentleman? What man of elegant manners teases one with questions so? I will not be baited with what what is this? what is that? why is a cow's tail long? why is a fox's tail bushy?' BOSWELL: 'Why, Sir, you are so good.' JOHNSON: 'My being so good is no reason why you should be so... | |
 | Leslie Laurio - 2007 - 164 ページ
...question. Don't you think, sir, that this questioning is a rude way for a gentleman to behave? I refused to be baited with what! and why! What is this? What is...is a cow's tail long? Why is a fox's tail bushy?' Children think the same thing, although they don't say so. Oral lessons are occasionally useful, and... | |
 | Lawrence Pearsall Jacks, George Dawes Hicks, George Stephens Spinks, Lancelot Austin Garrard, H. L. Short - 1922 - 840 ページ
...said, " 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 ? " Boswell adds that the gentleman, who was a good deal out of countenance, said, " Why, sir, you... | |
 | George Jean Nathan, Henry Louis Mencken - 1902 - 668 ページ
...not consider, sir, that these are not the manners of a gentleman? I am sick of " What?" and "Why?" " Why is a cow's tail long?" "Why is a fox's tail bushy?" ' " 'Why, sir,' says the piteous Boswell, ' you are so good I venture to trouble you.' " ' Because... | |
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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... 
