| William Cobbett - 1833 - 844 דפים
...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.... | |
| 1822 - 634 דפים
...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 - 1810 - 762 דפים
...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... | |
| Thomas John Dibdin - 1813 - 344 דפים
...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... | |
| 1816 - 612 דפים
...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 - 1820 - 332 דפים
...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 - 1820 - 328 דפים
...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... | |
| 1821 - 970 דפים
...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 דפים
...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."... | |
| William Cobbett - 1824 - 394 דפים
...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... | |
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