...last degree infamous. Pope has forcibly stigmatized the contemptible inscription on the Monument : " Where London's column, pointing to the skies, Like a tall bully — lifts the head, and LIES." Were it not a disinterested and almost philanthropic deed, I am inclined to believe,...

...arrangement for the destruction of * This imputation is repelled by Pope, in the following couplet: " Where London's column, pointing to the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts its head, and Ues " 0 * Holland, and the overthrow of the national religion of England. The duke of York at this...

...heard of pope or his couplet, which was keen enough to have induced them to remove it long ago — " Where London's column pointing to the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts the head and — lies." This is still called " The Monument," and until the last few years was the...

...emulated in England than accredits our national good sense. While the Arc de Triomphe of Neuilly, like London's column pointing to the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts its head and lies, concerning more than one of the minor victories of the great European war of the nineteenth century,...

...emulated in England than accredits our national good sense. While the Arc de Triomphe of Neuilly, like London's column pointing to the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts its head and lies, concerning more than one of the minor victories of the great European war of the nineteenth century,...

...to perpetuate the memory of this great calamity, which, according to the well-known lines of Pope, " pointing to the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts its head and lies," it was recorded, that " the burning of this Protestant city was begun and carried on by the trea9hery...

...after the same fashion, as no longer true, his celebrated couplet, — " Where London's column towering to the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts its head and LIES." Parliamentary Reform. — The constant and unremitting efforts of the Court of Common Council for many...

...is more than forty years since I committed it to memory,) the poet in one of his satires says — " 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 his name ,...

...finally exploded — gave occasion to the well-known lines of Pope : " Where London's column pointing at the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts its head and lies*." The extent of damage on that fearful occasion is correctly stated on the Monument ; but the dry detail...

...stone of a Washington Monument. There it Uet, in the sense that was said of another monument — " Where London's column pointing to the skies, Like a tall bully lifts its head and liée." The corner atone lies out there in Sixty-fifth street; the imposing pageant that was cusjurcd...