| John Cooper Grocott - 1863 - 562 páginas
...colours idly spread. SHAESPERE. — King John, Act V. Scene 1. (The Bastard to the King.) COL UMN. — Where London's column, pointing to the skies Like a tall bully, lifts the head and lies. POPE. — Moral Essays, to Bathurst, Epi. III. Line 880. COMBINATION.— A combination, and a form,... | |
| Adam and Charles Black (Firm) - 1863 - 450 páginas
...and the introducing Popery and slavery." It was to this inscription that Pope's couplet alluded — " Where London's column, pointing to the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts the head and lies." A 'winding staircase of 345 steps passes up the interior to the balcony at the top. The charge for... | |
| Isaac Jack Reeve - 1865 - 232 páginas
...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 the head, and lies ; There dwells a citizen of sober fame, A plain good man, and Balaam is his name ! This letter came... | |
| Robert Demaus - 1866 - 240 páginas
...I hope, for my brother's justification, he wrote this but as an essay or taste of my virtue.' (k) ' Where London's column, pointing to the skies, Like a tall bully lifts the head and lies.' ENGLISH COMPOSITION. FOE excellence in English Composition the Commissioners allow five hundred marks,... | |
| Dublin city, univ - 1866 - 300 páginas
...?" d. " Let the two Cnrlls, of town and court, abuse His father, mother, body, soul, and muse." e. " Where London's column, pointing to the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts its head and lies." 5. "Well-natured Garth inflamed with early praise . . . The courtly Talbot, Somers,... | |
| 1867 - 568 páginas
...old list of Liverymen, the name of Thomas Balaam, fishmonger, Monument Yard, actually occurs : — " Where London's Column, pointing to the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts the head, and lies, There dwells a citizen of lober fame, A plain, good man, and Balaam is his name." The record, so obnoxious... | |
| Henry George Bohn - 1867 - 752 páginas
...Except in leap-year, then's the time, When February's days are twenty-nine. Moore's Almanack. MONUXENT. Where London's column, pointing to the skies Like a tall bully, lifts the head and lies. Pope. M. /•.'. in. 339. MOON— see Bight The chariest maid is prodigal enough, If she unmask her... | |
| Mark Lemon - 1867 - 364 páginas
...than those built upon Jan. 26,1831. The English version, which produced Pope's wellknown lines— '• Where London's column pointing to the skies, Like a tall bully lifts it* head and lies," jus aa follows:— " THIS PILLAR WAS SET VP IN PERPETUALL REMEMBRANCE OP THAT DREADFUL... | |
| Adam and Charles Black (Firm) - 1870 - 530 páginas
...and the introducing Popery and slavery." It was to this inscription that Pope's couplet alluded — " Where London's column, pointing to the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts the head and lies." A winding staircase of 345 steps passes up the interior to the balcony at the top. The charge for permission... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1895 - 486 páginas
...dislike of its, even in the eighteenth century, aided the adoption of the French idiom lever la tile: 'Where London's column, pointing to the skies, Like a tall bully lifts the head and lies.' — Pope, Moral Essays, iii, 340. — MEIKLEJOHN: Milton, who died 1674, does not use the word. [See... | |
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