 | Alexander Pope - 1869 - 570 pages
...Count Grammont and death. Dion Cassius (XLVII. 49}.] Horace Walpole. The tenant's house at which 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, Л plain good man, and Balaam was his name ; Religious, punctual,... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - London (England) - 1871 - 460 pages
...THE FIRE. — DESCRIPTION OF THE MONUMENT. H OW few are there, who have stood on Fish Street Hill— "Where London's column, pointing at the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts the head, and lies " — who have not lingered to ruminate on that fearful conflagration, which the magnificent column... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1872 - 744 pages
...which we now proceed. But you are tired — 1 11 tell a tale — B. Agreed. P. Where London's column,1 pointing at the skies Like a tall bully, lifts the head, and lies ; 349 There dwelt a citizen of sober fame, A plain good man, and Balaam was his name ; 1 ' Where London's... | |
 | Joseph Mullooly - Italy - 1873 - 490 pages
...until they were miraculously discovered by S. Cyril. Not as Pope wrote, in his « Moral Essay, » « Where London's column pointing at the skies « Like a tall bully, lifts the head and lies ; » do the two great sculptured columns of pagan Koine reflect upon the victims of persecution. The... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - American periodicals - 1873 - 840 pages
...1778, when it was pulled clown, it might have been said of this, as of our City Monument, that it, " Pointing at the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts the head and lies." Manzoni proves in his treatise, where the contemporary evidence of this disgraceful trial is carefully... | |
 | 1873 - 598 pages
...1778, when it was pulled down, it might have been said of this, as of our City Monument, that it, " Pointing at the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts the head and lies." Manzoni proves in his treatise, where the contemporary evidence of this disgraceful trial is carefully... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1874 - 798 pages
...a church to God, and not to fame, Will never mark the marble with his name. Epistle iii. Line 285. Where London's column, pointing at the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts the head and lies. Epistle iii. Line 339. Good sense, which only is the gift of Heaven, And though no science, fairly... | |
 | 1874 - 810 pages
...attributing the fire to a deliberate plot of the Catholics, gave rise to, the indignant couplet of Pope: " "Where London's column, pointing at the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts its head and lies." This inscription was obliterated under James IL, reçut under William III., and... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1875 - 890 pages
...name. Epistle iii. Line 285. In the worst inn's worst room, with mat half hung. Epistle iii. Line 299. Where London's column, pointing at the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts the head and lies. Epistle iii. Line 339. Good sense, which only is the gift of Heaven, And though no science, fairly... | |
 | Edwin Abbott, Edwin Abbott Abbott - English language - 1875 - 404 pages
...other sheds." EA 350. Gallicisms. Pope's use of the is perhaps a result of French influence : — ' ' Where London's column pointing at the skies, Like a tall bully lifts the head and lies." ME Ш. 340. " Ev'n mitred Rochester would nod the head." PS 140. " You might have held the pretty head... | |
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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. 
