...the words so often applied to a celebrated pillar in the city were equally applicable to it: — " Where London's column, pointing to the skies. Like a tall bully, lifts its head— and lies." (Hear). No fact was more notorious than that no such statement bad been made....

...the post-man. 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 his head and lies, There dwelt a citizen of sober fame, A plain good man, and Balaam was liis name."...

...years, it has become a sort of fashion, to quote the lines of Pope, when speaking of the Mo-? nument, " Where London's Column, pointing to the skies, " Like a tall bully lifts its head, and lies f yet there are many circumstances on record which strongly com* bine in establishing...

...than recent pestilence or fire, Came plague of party and religious ire : Witness that "Shaft which pointing to the skies," Like a tall bully, lifts the head and liesfi Be it remember'd, a momentous fact, This reign produced the HABEAS CORPUS ACT. And, much less...

...ought not to have been thus perpetuated. To this falsity Pope alludes in these curious lines : — "Where London's column, pointing to the skies, Like a tall bully lifts its head, and tin." EDUCATION OP THE TEMPER. Before parents adopt either the epi•urean or stoical...

...excited the indignation of Pope, who alludes to it in one of his satires in the following lines : " London's column pointing to the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts the head, and lies." V '• v • ' u. GENERAL OBSERVATIONS ON THE VARIOUS CLASSES OF THE INHABITANTS OF CONDON. • Majdt...

...the indignation of Pope, who alludes to it in one of his satires in the following lines : '. ;> : . " London's column pointing to the skies, . ; L'ike a tall bully, lifts the head, and lies." GENERAL OBSERVATIONS ON THE VARIOUS CLASSES OF THE INHABITANTS OF LONDON. • Major famae sitis est...

...expunge his qualifying expression, and subscribe with us to the truth of Pope's well known couplet, " Where London's column, pointing to the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts its head, and lies." He will act prudently also in re-modelling a passage at page 309, about" high...

...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 its head and lies, There dwelt a citizen of sober fame, A plain good man, and BALAAM was his name."...

...this day, going round the base of " the Monument," which POPE justly compares to ^ big, lying bully. " Where London's column, pointing to the skies, " Like a tall bully, lifts its head, and lies." The words are these : " This monument is erected in memory " of the burning of...