 | 1821 - 970 pages
...expunge his qualifying expression, and subscribe with us to the truth of Pope's well known couplet, " Where London's column, pointing to the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts its head, and lies." He will act prudently also in re-modelling a passage at page 309, about" high... | |
 | 1823 - 494 pages
...postman. The direction, according to the terms of the wager, consisted of these lines from POPE : — " Where London's column, pointing to the skies, Like a tall bully lifts its head and lies, There dwelt a citizen of sober fame, A plain good man, and BALAAM was his name."... | |
 | Thomas Ignatius M. Forster - 1824 - 846 pages
...it, as thereon detailed in a Latin inscription, is much misstated. Pope has said of the Monument — Where London's column, pointing to the skies, Like a tall bully lifts its head and lies. VESTA. — On Danger from Fire. — The many serious reflections to which the memorable... | |
 | Art - 1824 - 436 pages
...magnificent column, the London Montinent, which the same satirical poet likeneth unto i bull i/ and a linr. " Where London's column pointing to the skies, Like a tall Bully lifts its head and lies." POPE'S Sir Baalam. It is fitting these things be told, to show with phat a grace... | |
 | William Cobbett - Catholic emancipation - 1824 - 394 pages
...this day, going round the base of " the Monument," which POPE justly compares to ^ big, lying bully. " Where London's column, pointing to the skies, " Like a tall bully, lifts its head, and lies." The words are these : " This monument is erected in memory " of the burning of... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - Great Britain - 1825 - 426 pages
...commemorate the burning of the city by the Papists ; which Pope - justly notices in these lines : " Where London's column, pointing to the skies, Like a tall bully lifts the head and lies." Moral Essays, HI. 339, 340. We shall here notice a monumejit erected to commemorate the valour of the... | |
 | 1825 - 668 pages
...THAT we may know the opinion of our ancestors, who happened u. pass along that busy thoroughfare, " Where London's column pointing to the skies, Like a tall bully lifts the head and lies," soon after the erection of that noble pillar, which forms indisputably the finest piece of architecture... | |
 | William Grimshaw - Great Britain - 1826 - 318 pages
...arrangement for the destruction of * This imputation is repelled by Pope, in the following couplet: " Where London's column, pointing to the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts its head, and Ties." Holland, and the overthrow of Ihe national religion of England. . 6_. The duke... | |
 | 596 pages
...high altar, as bishop of Tours. The date of this piece is 1466. We will from thence visit the hill" Where London's column pointing to the skies, ...... " Like a tall bully lifts its head and lies." "" "-" '•* "! The monument at once the glory and the disgrace of the city, glorious... | |
 | Edward Wedlake Brayley - London (England) - 1829 - 452 pages
...a distance from th* the sarcastic lines of Pope (who, be it remembered, was himself a Catholic), " Where London's Column, pointing to the skies, Like a tall bully lifts the head and lies ; there are many circumstances upon record which combine to establish a belief that this conflagration... | |
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Where London's column, pointing to the skies Like a tall bully, lifts its head and lies. 
