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" Where London's column, pointing to the skies Like a tall bully, lifts its head and lies. "
Cobbett's Political Register - Page 361
edited by - 1833
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The Art of Speaking: Containing, an Essay, in which are Given Rules for ...

James Burgh - Elocution - 1804 - 308 pages
...Affected piety. Craft. Earnest. XXXVI, CHARACTERS. From Mr. Poff, MORAL ESSATS. (Ei>ift. III.) W HERE 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 ; Religious, punctual,...
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The Art of Speaking: Containing. An Essay, in which are Given Rules for ...

James Burgh - 1804 - 312 pages
...Affected |>iety. Craft. Earnest. XXXVI, CHARACTERS. From Mr. Puffs MORAL ESSAYS. (Epift. III.) W HERE London's column, pointing to the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts its head, and /z«,~* There dwelt a citizen of sober fame, A plain, good man, and Balaam was his name ; Religious,...
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Belle Assemblée: Or, Court and Fashionable Magazine; Containing Interesting ...

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."...
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The Parliamentary Register: Or an Impartial Report of the Debates ..., Volume 3

Great Britain. Parliament - 1807 - 780 pages
...so as even to give a recorded foundation for thé latiré oi Pope, Where London's pillar, towering to the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts its head, and lies, the best blood of this countrj', and of Ireland, was shed by the party to the cry, and the counter...
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London and Middlesex: Or, An Historical, Commercial, & Descriptive ..., Volume 1

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 a belief that...
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The Parliamentary Debates from the Year 1803 to the Present Time, Volume 24

Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1812 - 680 pages
...in this manner would have been a fit person to have written the inscription on the Monument, which ' Pointing' to the skies, ' Like a tall bully, lifts its head, and /<>.<.' I anticipate, Sir, that we shall have the support of the noble lord opposite (lord CasUereagh),...
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Clavis Calendaria: Or, A Compendious Analysis of the Calendar ..., Volume 2

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...
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Clavis calendaria; or, A compendious analysis of the calendar, Volume 2

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...
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The European Magazine, and London Review, Volume 70

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 doctrines iu...
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Appendix

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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