_Dr. Fell_ (Vol. v., p. 296.).--Mr. Tom Sheridan, the only child of
Richard Brinsley Sheridan by his wife (Miss Elizabeth Linley), is author
of the lines on Dr. Fell. They were written on the celebrated Dr. Parr,
under whose tuition he was. Why he gave to Dr. Parr the nomen "Dr.
Fell," I do not know. I have often heard my dear mother repeat the
lines:
"I do not like thee, Dr. Fell,
The reason why I cannot tell,
But this I know full well,
I do not like thee, Dr. Fell."
The metre of the third line would be more perfect by the addition of the
dissyllable; but the lines I have so often heard want this.
My mother was very intimate with the Sheridan family, and many years
agone she informed me that Miss Jane Linley (afterwards Mrs. Ward) told
her that young Tom Sheridan composed the foregoing lines on Dr. Parr.