...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. If there had been a name...

...Affected piety. Craft. Earnest. XXXVI, CHARACTERS. From Mr. Poff, MORAL ESSATS. (Ei>ift. III.) W HERE 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 ; Religious, punctual,...

...Affected |>iety. Craft. Earnest. XXXVI, CHARACTERS. From Mr. Puffs MORAL ESSAYS. (Epift. III.) W HERE London's column, pointing to the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts its head, and /z«,~* There dwelt a citizen of sober fame, A plain, good man, and Balaam was his name ; Religious,...

...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."...

...so as even to give a recorded foundation for thé latiré oi Pope, Where London's pillar, towering to the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts its head, and lies, the best blood of this countrj', and of Ireland, was shed by the party to the cry, and the counter party....

...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 a belief that...

...in this manner would have been a fit person to have written the inscription on the Monument, which ' Pointing' to the skies, ' Like a tall bully, lifts its head, and /<>.<.' I anticipate, Sir, that we shall have the support of the noble lord opposite (lord CasUereagh),...

...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 doctrines iu...

...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 churchmen in a rage;"...

...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 letter came safe...