...I hope, for my brother's justification, he wrote this but as an essay or taste of my virtue.' (k) ' Where London's column, pointing to the skies, Like a tall bully lifts the head and lies.' ENGLISH COMPOSITION. FOE excellence in English Composition the Commissioners allow...

...Except in leap-year, then's the time, When February's days are twenty-nine. Moore's Almanack. MONUXENT. Where London's column, pointing to the skies Like a tall bully, lifts the head and lies. Pope. M. /•.'. in. 339. MOON— see Bight The chariest maid is prodigal enough,...

...than those built upon Jan. 26,1831. The English version, which produced Pope's wellknown lines— '• Where London's column pointing to the skies, Like a tall bully lifts it* head and lies," jus aa follows:— " THIS PILLAR WAS SET VP IN PERPETUALL REMEMBRANCE OP THAT DREADFUL...

...old list of Liverymen, the name of Thomas Balaam, fishmonger, Monument Yard, actually occurs : — " Where London's Column, pointing to the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts the head, and lies, There dwells a citizen of lober fame, A plain, good man, and Balaam is his name."...

...dungeons, the oubliettes, were once constructed ; and above, verifying the lines of Pope, a brazen column — " pointing to the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts its head and lies." Here stands the vulgar and clumsy pillar ycleped "The column of July", covered with the gilded names...

...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....

...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...

...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 Great Fire of 1666,...

...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 punishment of the...

...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...