 | JAMES S. OGILVY - 1910 - 550 páginas
...inscription on the pedestal, ascribing the fire to the malice of the Papists, and satirised by Pope — " Where London's column, pointing to the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts his head and lies" — was universally considered unjust, and it has been erased for many years past.... | |
 | Esther Singleton - 1913 - 364 páginas
...inscription attributing the conflagration to the malice of Papists. This fact accounts for Pope's couplet: " Where London's column pointing to the skies Like a tall bully lifts its head and lies." The City was soon rebuilt. In 1685, Louis XIV. revoked the Edict of Nantes, thus... | |
 | University of Bombay - 1916 - 814 páginas
...first fair. (y) And more true joy Maroellus exil'd feels Than Czesar with a senate at his heels. («) Where London's column, pointing to the skies Like a tall bully, lifts the head and lies. C. Explain the following names or terms : — The Stagirite, Pegasus, La Mancha's Knight, Appius, the... | |
 | 1887 - 940 páginas
...Pope's lines which I used to read at school, wondering what was the meaning of the second one : — "Where London's column, pointing to the skies Like a tall bully, lifts its head and lies " — The week passed away rapidly enough, and we made ready for our departure. It... | |
 | 1887 - 886 páginas
...Pope's lines which I used to read at school, wondering what was the meaning of the second one : — " Where London's column, pointing to the skies Like a tall bully, lifts its head and lies " — The week passed away rapidly enough, and we made ready for our departure. It... | |
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Where London's column, pointing to the skies Like a tall bully, lifts its head and lies. 
