 | War office - 1858 - 578 sayfa
...doe." 4. Ee-write in prose the following passage, and explain the allusions contained in it : — " Where London's column, pointing to the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts the head and lies, There dwelt a citizen of sober fame, A plain good man, and Balaam was his name ;... | |
 | Peter Hardeman Burnett - 1860 - 812 sayfa
...and inscribed, commemorating the supposed dark deed, of which Pope has this expressive couplet : " Where London's column, pointing to the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts its head, and lies." A few years ago the Corporation of London had the magnanimity to have this inscription chipped off.... | |
 | George Augustus Sala - 1862 - 414 sayfa
...commemoration of which they built that strange monument, with the gilt shaving-brush at the top — " . . . . London's column, pointing to the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts its head and lies." I think of the great fire at the Tower of London in 1841, of which I was an eye-witness, and which... | |
 | 1862 - 460 sayfa
...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.... | |
 | John Cooper Grocott - 1863 - 562 sayfa
...colours idly spread. SHAESPERE. — King John, Act V. Scene 1. (The Bastard to the King.) COL UMN. — Where London's column, pointing to the skies Like a tall bully, lifts the head and lies. POPE. — Moral Essays, to Bathurst, Epi. III. Line 880. COMBINATION.— A combination,... | |
 | Adam and Charles Black (Firm) - 1863 - 450 sayfa
...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... | |
 | 1864 - 546 sayfa
...again, but sank and sank. So Pope, a century nearly after could write:— " Where London's column rising to the skies, Like a tall bully lifts its head and lies." Where lying is added to a bully's other base qualities. Now we know the word chiefly from the tyranny... | |
 | A. N. E. - 1865 - 132 sayfa
...no'ble mountain land of liberty, Where patriot Hofer struggled to be Tree. 7. That which in London "pointing to the skies, " Like a tall bully, lifts its head and lies." 8. The scale-clad beast which haunts the tropic shore, Where through Brazilian woods the waters pour.... | |
 | Isaac Jack Reeve - 1865 - 232 sayfa
...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 the head, and lies ; There dwells a citizen of sober fame, A plain good man, and Balaam is his name... | |
 | Dublin city, univ - 1866 - 300 sayfa
...?" d. " Let the two Cnrlls, of town and court, abuse His father, mother, body, soul, and muse." e. " Where London's column, pointing to the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts its head and lies." 5. "Well-natured Garth inflamed with early praise . . . The courtly Talbot, Somers, Sheffield, read,... | |
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Where London's column, pointing to the skies Like a tall bully, lifts its head and lies. 
