[157] The sign by which this circumstance is intimated was at first inscribed Goodchild and West. Some of Mr. Hogarth's city friends informing him that it was usual for the senior partner's name to precede, it was altered.
[158] Madame Pompadour, in her remarks on the English taste for music, says "they are invariably fond of everything that is full in the mouth."
[159] The inscription must remind every reader of Pope's lines,—
"Where London's column, pointing to the skies,
Like a tall bully rears its head, and lies," etc.
The Duke of Buckingham's epigram on this magnificent pillar is not so generally known:
"Here stand I,
The Lord knows why;
But if I fall—
Have at ye all!"