| Joseph Woodfall Ebsworth - 1878 - 712 sayfa
...mayoralty, with its libellous inscriptions against the Roman Catholics ("Where London's Column, towering to the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts its head and lies"— Pope), 672. Moore, Sir John, Lord Mayor of London, in 1682, his nomination of Dudley North, as SherilT,... | |
| 1878 - 802 sayfa
...that famous monument, the subject of Pope's scathing but just lines : " And London's column, soaring to the skies Like a tall bully, lifts its head and lies? " Sir, I have no sympathy with chauvinism of any kind, but, surely, of all kinds that is the worst... | |
| Where, Who - 1878 - 186 sayfa
...Minstrel. From ignorance our comfort flows, The only wretched are the wise. PRIOR, To the Hon. C. Montagu. Where London's column, pointing to the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts the head and lies. POPE, Moral Essays, ep. iii. Where none admire, 'tis useless to excel, Where none... | |
| Ward, Lock and co, ltd - 1879 - 352 sayfa
...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... | |
| George Routledge (and sons; ltd.) - 1880 - 262 sayfa
...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— THE CHUKCH OF ST.... | |
| Camilla Crosland, Mrs. Newton Crosland - 1880 - 324 sayfa
...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 force in his poem... | |
| Theophilus Dwight Hall - 1880 - 228 sayfa
...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 : what words... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1880 - 152 sayfa
...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... | |
| James Henry - 1881 - 1022 sayfa
...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 punishment of the... | |
| Henry George Bohn - 1881 - 738 sayfa
...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... | |
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