...remember the indignant ajluthe unfounded calumny on Roman Catholics ; — IE MONUMENT. Pope's sjon to " Where London's column, pointing to the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts the head and lies." This is the loftiest isolated column in the world, being 202 feet high. The interior is a spiral staircase...

...eighteenth century; and he quotes the lines of Pope (Moral Essays, iii. 340) about London Pillar: * Where London's column, pointing to the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts the head and lies.' Eo sworn. Macbeth had not sworn at all ; he had only said he would consider it — that he would *...

...Hugh Myddelton was soon afterwards dubbed a knight and eventually obtained the grant of a baronetcy. " Where London's column pointing to the skies, Like a tall bully lifts its head, and lies 1"— POPE. THE MONUMENT — LONDON BRIDGE — LONDON BRIDGE RAILWAY TERMINUS—...

...ill-feelings ; and it was to that perpetuated falsehood that Pope alluded in his famous couplet : — " Where London's column, pointing to the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts its head and lies." Another great poet, Dryden, has described the memorable fire of London with much...

...elegant ? striking ? grand ? useful ? Original inscription ? referred to in Pope's well-known Hues : ' Where London's column pointing to the skies Like a tall bully lifts its head and lies.' [What term denotes two lines rhyming ?] EXERCISE 28. GUM-ARAEIC. NOTES. — Gum-arabic...

...Except in leap-year, thon's the time. When February's days are twenty -nine. Moore i Almanack. MONUMENT. Where London's column, pointing to the skies Like a tall bully, lifts the head and lies. Pope. ME ul. 33U. MOON— /« Night. The chariest maid is prodigal enough. If she unmask her beauty...

...III.'s reign it was re-cut deeper than before, and so remained to justify Pope's well-known lines : — London's column pointing to the skies, Like a tall bully lifts the head and lies.1 It is a curious retribution that the Monument designed by so great an architect as Wren, to...

...III.'s reign it was re-cut deeper than before, and so remained to justify Pope's well-known lines : — London's column pointing to the skies, Like a tall bully lifts the head and lies.1 It is a curious retribution that the Monument designed by so great an architect as Wren, to...

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

...received an answer beginning thus : " From Mahomet, the prophet of Allah, to Moseilma the Liar." * * # * Where London's column pointing to the skies, Like a tall bully lifts its head and lies. — Pope. * * * * How base are they Who keep the word of promise to the ear, but...