...from the notion of great and towering height. In Pope's clever lines (Moral Essays, Epist. 3. 339): "where London's column, pointing to the skies, like a tall bully lifts the head and lies." the two meanings of minari are separated from each other, and its own place given to each—"pointing...

...from the notion of great and towering height. In Pope's clever lines (Moral Essays, Epist. 3. 339) : •'where London's column, pointing to the skies, like a tall bully lifts the head and lies,'' the two meanings of minari are separated from each other, and its own place given to each — "pointing...

...attraction is, of course, the Tower ; but let us first turn down towards Billingsgate and the river — " Where London's column, pointing to the skies, Like a tall bully lifts its head and lies." Pope's couplet was quite just, for an inscription on the plinth attributed the...

...borrowing from ancient authors and their "minax" and " minaci " as applied to tall, towering objects : " Where London's column pointing to the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts its head and lies." See Hem. on " minantur," 1. 166. Is there not an intended appropriateness in this...

...English liberties, and to introduce Popery and heresy." Dryden alludes to this inscription : — " Where London's Column, pointing to the skies, Like a tall bully lifts its head, and tits." The offensive words were erased 1830. The Plague, and the Fire, were generally...

...many of her sisters who are no longer in their teens. 1 We refer to the well-known passage : — ' Where London's column, pointing to the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts its head and lies.' Pope was stigmatizing that unjust inscription on the Monument which stated that...

...English liberties, and to introduce Popery and heresy." Dryden alludes to this inscription : — " Where London's Column, pointing to the skies. Like a tall bully lifts its head, and lies." The offensive words were erased 1830. Colonel Blood's Theft of the Regalia from...

...Minstrel. From ignorance our comfort flows, The only wretched are the wise. PRIOR, To the Hon. C. Montagu. Where London's column, pointing to the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts the head and lies. POPE, Moral Essays, ep. iii. Where none admire, 'tis useless to excel, Where none are beaux, 'tis vain...

...remember the indignant ajluthe unfounded calumny on Roman Catholics ; — IE MONUMENT. Pope's sjon to " Where London's column, pointing to the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts the head and lies." This is the loftiest isolated column in the world, being 202 feet high. The interior is a spiral staircase...

...eighteenth century; and he quotes the lines of Pope (Moral Essays, iii. 340) about London Pillar: * Where London's column, pointing to the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts the head and lies.' Eo sworn. Macbeth had not sworn at all ; he had only said he would consider it — that he would *...