...This inscription had outlived its credit as early as the time of Popc'i Epistles, who writes:— " Where London's column pointing to the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts its head and lies." might have been. Two plans of a very snperior description were proposed, by the...

...this day, going round the base ol " the Monument^' which POPE justly compares to a 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 this...

...Charles, and who opposed it? 7- Whom did the king marry? and what was his inducement? 1 Hence Pope — " Where London's column pointing to the skies Like a tall bully, lifts its head and lies." 9. What is supposed to have induced the king to declare war against the Dutch ?...

...fire, and above is that unjustifiable legend which called forth the indignant lines of Pope : — " Where London's column pointing to the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts its head and lies."» * The original inscription, ascribing to the Roman Catholics the fire which consumed...

...firmness of touch ; and to these is added a peculiar air of facility and freedom."— GIFFOHD.J (5) [" Where London's column, pointing to the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts the head and lies.—" — Pope's allusion being to the anti-catholic inscription on the monument erected after the great...

...post-office with the following singular direction, which, it will be seen, is an extract from Pope : — " Where London's column, pointing to the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts his head and lies, There dwells a citizen of sober fame — A plain good man, and Balaam is his name."...

...bethought that the words so often applied to a celehrated pillar iu 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 DO such statement had heen made....

...this inscription that Pope, who was also a Catholic, so bitterly alludes in those well-known lines : " Where London's Column, pointing to the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts the head and lies." But notwithstanding this denunciation, and the second erasure of the inscription, prompted more by...

...firmness of touch ; and to these is added a peculiar air of facility and freedom."— GlFrosD.] (2) ['" Where London's column, pointing to the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts the head and lies " Pope's allusion being to the anti-catholic inscription on the monument erected after the great fire...

...last degree infamous. Pope has forcibly stigmatized the contemptible inscription on the Monument : " Where London's column, pointing to the skies, Like a tall bully — lifts the head, and LIES." Were it not a disinterested and almost philanthropic deed, I am inclined to believe, as many do, that...