 | Alexander Pope - 1926 - 306 pages
...!" A knotty point ! to which we now proceed. But you are tir'd — I'll tell a tale. B. Agreed. P. Where London's column, pointing at the skies Like a tall bully, lifts the head, and lies ; 340 There dwelt a Citizen of sober fame, A plain good man, and Balaam was his name ; Religious, punctual,... | |
 | Thomas Shadwell - Artists' books - 1927 - 472 pages
...this was engraved upon the Monument is remembered from Pope's couplet, Moral Essays, III, 339-340 : Where London's column, pointing at the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts the head, and lies. p. 269. LEARNED RICHARD. Apparently in allusion to King Richard II., but the reference seems extraordinarily... | |
 | Aristotle - Aesthetics - 1927 - 528 pages
...exclamation excites mingled laughter and applause, and there is a light touch of mordant wit about it too. at the skies, | Like a tall bully, lifts the head, and lies " (Epistle to Lord Bathurst). ' Cratetis Fragm. 7 Bergk4 ; cf. § 170 n. Crates is parodying the Homeric... | |
 | William Henry Irving - Literary Criticism - 1928 - 508 pages
...speaks of was a fire monument, and bore an inscription importing that the city was burnt by Papists. Where London's column, pointing at the skies Like a tall bully, lifts the head, and lies.3 This severe experience must have taught the lesson of preparedness, for Gay's description of... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poetry - 1963 - 884 pages
...reward ? A knotty point ! to which we now proceed. But you are tir'd — I'll tell a tale. 'Agreed.' Where London's column, pointing at the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts the head, and lyes; 340 There dwelt a Citizen of sober fame, A plain good man, and Balaam was his name ; Religious,... | |
 | T. R.. Barnes - 1964 - 340 pages
...inscription importing that city to have been burnt by the Papists. This inscription has since been erased.' Where London's column, pointing at the skies Like a tall bully, lifts the head, and hes; There dwelt a citizen of sober fame, A plain good man, and Balaam was his name; Religious, punctual,... | |
 | George Dekker - Literary Criticism - 1990 - 392 pages
...Several Persons, ed. FW Bateson (London: Methuen & Co., and New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1951), p. 117: Where London's column, pointing at the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts the head, and lies; Like Melville, Pope introduces the image of the opulent monument in a passage where he is moralizing... | |
 | Charles Dickens - Avarice - 1994 - 836 pages
...Pickwick's lodgings in The Pickwick Papers 3 the Monument: see note to Chapter 8 4 Pope's couplet: 'Where London's column, pointing at the skies/ Like a tall bully, lifts the head and lies' (Pope, 'Epistle to Bathurst', ii, 339-40). An inscription formerly at the foot of the Monument had.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poetry - 1998 - 260 pages
...own reward? A knotty point! to which we now proceed. But you are tired—I'll tell a tale 'Agreed.' Where London's column, pointing at the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts the head, and lies; 340 There dwelt a citizen of sober fame, A plain good man, and Balaam was his name; Religious, punctual,... | |
 | Voltaire - History - 1999 - 244 pages
...introduce Popery and Slavery.' Hence the lines of Pope, a Catholic, in his Epistle to Bathurst (w. 339-40): 'Where London's column, pointing at the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts the head, and lyes; . . .' 14 such a babbling: 'Thou hast describ'd the Man's Way of Speaking and Preaching very... | |
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There dwelt a Citizen of sober fame, A plain good man, and Balaam was his name ; Religious, punctual, frugal, and so forth; His word would pass for more than he was worth. 
