...and the introducing Popery and slavery." It was to this inscription that Pope's couplet alluded — " Where London's column, pointing to the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts the head and lies." A winding staircase of 345 steps passes up the interior to the balcony at the top. The charge for permission...

...dislike of its, even in the eighteenth century, aided the adoption of the French idiom lever la tile: 'Where London's column, pointing to the skies, Like a tall bully lifts the head and lies.' — Pope, Moral Essays, iii, 340. — MEIKLEJOHN: Milton, who died 1674, does not use the word. [See...

...from the notion of great and towering height. In Pope's clever lines (Moral Essays, Epist. 3. 339): "where London's column, pointing to the skies, like a tall bully lifts the head and lies." the two meanings of minari are separated from each other, and its own place given to each—"pointing...

...from the notion of great and towering height. In Pope's clever lines (Moral Essays, Epist. 3. 339) : •'where London's column, pointing to the skies, like a tall bully lifts the head and lies,'' the two meanings of minari are separated from each other, and its own place given to each — "pointing...

...borrowing from ancient authors and their "minax" and " minaci " as applied to tall, towering objects : " Where London's column pointing to the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts its head and lies." See Hem. on " minantur," 1. 166. Is there not an intended appropriateness in this...

...attraction is, of course, the Tower ; but let us first turn down towards Billingsgate and the river — " Where London's column, pointing to the skies, Like a tall bully lifts its head and lies." Pope's couplet was quite just, for an inscription on the plinth attributed the...

...English liberties, and to introduce Popery and heresy." Dryden alludes to this inscription : — " Where London's Column, pointing to the skies, Like a tall bully lifts its head, and tits." The offensive words were erased 1830. The Plague, and the Fire, were generally...

...many of her sisters who are no longer in their teens. 1 We refer to the well-known passage : — ' Where London's column, pointing to the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts its head and lies.' Pope was stigmatizing that unjust inscription on the Monument which stated that...

...English liberties, and to introduce Popery and heresy." Dryden alludes to this inscription : — " Where London's Column, pointing to the skies. Like a tall bully lifts its head, and lies." The offensive words were erased 1830. Colonel Blood's Theft of the Regalia from...

...Minstrel. From ignorance our comfort flows, The only wretched are the wise. PRIOR, To the Hon. C. Montagu. Where London's column, pointing to the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts the head and lies. POPE, Moral Essays, ep. iii. Where none admire, 'tis useless to excel, Where none are beaux, 'tis vain...