 | Max John Christian Meiklejohn - 1898 - 292 pages
...this slander. This caused Pope, who was a Roman Catholic, to write of ' London's column,' which — Pointing at the skies Like a tall bully lifts the head and lies. The malicious inscription was obliterated in the reign of James 1i.. recut deeper than before in the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1899 - 228 pages
...Papists. The monument is in the form of a lofty pillar of stone, and Pope's indignant couplet runs : " Where London's column, pointing at the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts the head, and lies." (w. 339, 340.) This inscription was removed from the column in the reign of William IV. (December,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1899 - 236 pages
...Papists. The monument is in the form of a lofty pillar of stone, and Pope's indignant couplet runs: " Where London's column, pointing at the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts the head, and lies." (w. 339, 340.) This inscription was removed from the column in the reign of William IV. (December,... | |
 | 1902 - 784 pages
...DEAR SIR ORACLE: In the third Epistle of Pope's "Moral Essays" there occurs the following couplet: Where London's column, pointing at the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts the head and lies. Will Sir Oracle kindly explain the reference? Will he also help me in the search for other lines in... | |
 | 1903 - 1186 pages
...mark the marble with his name. Line 285. In the worst inn's worst room, with mat half hung. Line 299. Where London's column, pointing at the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts the head and lies. Line 339. Good sense, which only is the gift of Heaven, And though no science, fairly worth the seven.... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1902 - 408 pages
...the Fire — Description of the Monument. H0w few are there, who have stood on Fish Street Hill,— " Where London's column, pointing at the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts the head, and lies, — " who have not lingered to ruminate on that fearful conflagration, which the magnificent column... | |
 | 1902 - 886 pages
...monumental. We hope it will not be like the monument which Pope's verses have made us familiar with: " Where London's column pointing at the skies Like a tall bully, lifts its head and lies. " It is to be completed in eight huge volumes. Of course other distinguished writers... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1905 - 582 pages
...completes the nation's hope, And heads the bold train-bands, and bums a Pope.' Moral Essays, iii. 213. 3 ' Where London's column, pointing at the skies, Like a tall bully lifts the head and lies.' Ib. 1. 339. Pope adds in a note: — 'The Monument, built in memory of the fire of London, with an... | |
 | 1906 - 810 pages
...fight on to the last "With a stiff upper lip!" PHOIBE GAEY, Keep a Stiff Upper Lip, st, 4 Column. — Where London's column, pointing at the skies. Like a tall bully, lifts the head, and lies. POPE, Moral Essays, Epistle iii, lines 339, 340 Comb. — To comb your noddle with a three-legged stool.... | |
 | 1917 - 376 pages
...letters about what she saw there. " About the middle of the town", she said, • " Where Holwell's column, pointing at the skies Like a tall bully, lifts the head, and lies". Pope, Moral Essays, Epistle III (Slightly adapted). * Long's Records, p. 381. " on the river's edge,... | |
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There dwelt a Citizen of sober fame, A plain good man, and Balaam was his name ; Religious, punctual, frugal, and so forth; His word would pass for more than he was worth. 
