 | William Cobbett - Great Britain - 1833 - 844 pages
...thought that the words so often applied to a celebrated pillar in the city were equally applicable to it: — " Where London's column, pointing to the skies. Like a tall bully, lifts its head— and lies." (Hear). No fact was more notorious than that no such statement bad been made.... | |
 | Women - 1822 - 634 pages
...the post-man. 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 his head and lies, There dwelt a citizen of sober fame, A plain good man, and Balaam was liis name."... | |
 | Edward Wedlake Brayley, James Norris Brewer, Joseph Nightingale - London (England) - 1810 - 762 pages
...years, it has become a sort of fashion, to quote the lines of Pope, when speaking of the Mo-? nument, " Where London's Column, pointing to the skies, " Like a tall bully lifts its head, and lies f yet there are many circumstances on record which strongly com* bine in establishing... | |
 | John Brady - Calendar - 1813 - 410 pages
...falsehoods, as Mr. POPE (who, by the way, was himself of the Catholic persuasion) has coarsely charged it. " Where London's column pointing to the skies, Like a tall bully, rears its head and lies." Upon the North side is inscribed : — " In the year of CHRIST 1666, the... | |
 | Thomas John Dibdin - 1813 - 344 pages
...than recent pestilence or fire, Came plague of party and religious ire : Witness that "Shaft which pointing to the skies," Like a tall bully, lifts the head and liesfi Be it remember'd, a momentous fact, This reign produced the HABEAS CORPUS ACT. And, much less... | |
 | John Brady - 1815 - 420 pages
...falsehoods, as Mr. POPE (who, by the way, was himself of the Catholic persuasion) has coarsely charged it. • , ". Where London's column pointing to the skies, Like a tall bully, rears its bead and lies" Upon the North side is inscribed : — " In the year of CHRIST 1666, the 2d... | |
 | 1816 - 612 pages
...ought not to have been thus perpetuated. To this falsity Pope alludes in these curious lines : — "Where London's column, pointing to the skies, Like a tall bully lifts its head, and tin." EDUCATION OP THE TEMPER. Before parents adopt either the epi•urean or stoical... | |
 | John Corry - London (England) - 1820 - 332 pages
...excited the indignation of Pope, who alludes to it in one of his satires in the following lines : " London's column pointing to the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts the head, and lies." V '• v • ' u. GENERAL OBSERVATIONS ON THE VARIOUS CLASSES OF THE INHABITANTS OF CONDON. • Majdt... | |
 | John Corry - London (England) - 1820 - 328 pages
...the indignation of Pope, who alludes to it in one of his satires in the following lines : '. ;> : . " London's column pointing to the skies, . ; L'ike a tall bully, lifts the head, and lies." GENERAL OBSERVATIONS ON THE VARIOUS CLASSES OF THE INHABITANTS OF LONDON. • Major famae sitis est... | |
 | Thomas Pruen - Creeds - 1820 - 348 pages
...Protestant religion, and old English liberty. Pope, who was of the Catholic persuasion, thus refers to it: " Where London's column, pointing to the skies, " Like a tall bully rears its head, and lies." To this awful event,—the most destructive fire that perhaps ever originated... | |
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Where London's column, pointing to the skies Like a tall bully, lifts its head and lies. 
