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I do not like (or love) thee, Doctor Fell is an epigram, said to have been translated by satirical English poet Tom Brown in 1680. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Later it has been recorded as a nursery rhyme and a proverb.
A frog leaves his native swamp and proclaims himself a wonder-working doctor. He is then asked by a sceptical fox how it is that he cannot cure his own lameness and sickly complexion. The fox's taunt echoes the Greek proverb, "Physician, heal thyself", which was current in Aesop's time (and was later quoted in the Christian scriptures).
The poem was first published as a folio of 24 pages on 2 January 1735 under the title An Epistle from Mr. Pope to Dr. Arbuthnot, with a date of 1734. It appeared in Pope's Works the same year in folio, quarto and octavo, with a Dublin edition and an Edinburgh piracy. During Pope's lifetime, it was included among the Moral Essays
You don’t have to be a linguist to enjoy a good pun, which this list is brimming with. The post 110 “Unappreciated Puns” That Might Make You Laugh, Cringe, Or Both (New Pics) first appeared ...
The Doctor, and Other Poems, 1887, contains the title poem, as well as "Kitty of the Sherragh Vane" and "The Schoolmasters". [8]: 1, 247, 352 The title poem is the source of the humorous doublet "Money is honey—my little sonny! / And a rich man's joke is allis funny!" [8]: 62 The Manx Witch, and other poems, Macmillan & Co., 1889.
This variant and the late date of recording suggest that the medieval meaning is unlikely. [1]Two other explanations have been proposed. 1. That Doctor Foster was an emissary of William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury, who visited Gloucester with instructions that all communion tables should be placed at the east end of the church instead of their post-Reformation or Puritan position in the ...
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. (/ h oʊ m z /; August 29, 1809 – October 7, 1894) was an American physician, poet, and polymath based in Boston. Grouped among the fireside poets, he was acclaimed by his peers as one of the best writers of the day.
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