| Henry Thomas - London (England) - 1830 - 532 pages
...Dunciad\o its filthy stream : — " By Bridewell all descend, As murning prayer and flagellation tnd, To where Fleet-ditch, with disemboguing streams, Rolls...tribute of dead dogs to Thames ; The king of dykes ! Thou whom no sluice of mud With deeper sable blots the sable flood; 'Here strip my children, here... | |
| Alexander Crombie - English language - 1830 - 490 pages
...she knew," or " she knew whom to be dead." " Than whom, Satan except, none higher sat." — Milton. " The king of dykes, than whom no sluice of mud, With deeper sable blots the silver flood." — Pope. This phraseology I have already examined. In answer to Mr. Baker's reasons for condemning... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1835 - 320 pages
...sings so long. This labor pass'd, by Bridewell all descend, As morning prayer and flagellation end, 270 To where Fleet-ditch, with disemboguing streams, Rolls...sluice of mud With deeper sable blots the silver flood. Xe Who sings so loudly, and who sings so long. A just character of sir Richard Blackmore, knight, who,... | |
| Alexander Pope, George Croly - 1835 - 312 pages
...sings so long. This labor pass'd, by Bridewell all descend, As morning prayer and flagellation end, 270 To where Fleet-ditch, with disemboguing streams, Rolls...sluice of mud With deeper sable blots the silver flood. 368 Who sings so loudly, and who sings so long. A just character of sir Richard Blackmore, knight,... | |
| William Hone - Days - 1835 - 924 pages
...Dunciad," imagined the votaries of Dulness diving and sporting in Fleet-ditch, which he then called The "King of dykes ! than whom no sluice of mud With deeper sable blots the silver flood. ' " I recollect," says Pennant, " the present noble approach to Blackfriars-bridge, the well-built... | |
| Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1835 - 382 pages
...Stairs, are imitated from Virgil, A:,n. vii. on the sounding the horn of Alecto : To where Fleet Ditch, with disemboguing streams, Rolls the large tribute of dead dogs to Thames ; The king of.dykes ! than whom no sluice of mud273 With deeper sable blots the silver flood. ' Here strip, my... | |
| Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1836 - 320 pages
...morning.prayers and flagellation end,) 270 To where Fleet.ditch with disemhnguing streams Rulls the large trihute of dead dogs to Thames, The king of dykes ! than whom no sluice of mud " With deeper sahle hlots the silver Hood. * Here strip, my children, here at once leap in, Here prove who hest can... | |
| Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1836 - 502 pages
...flagellation end,) 270 To where Fleet-ditch with disemhuguing streams Rolls the large trihute of dead dugs Lr* sahle hlots the silver flood. * Here strip, my children, here at once leap m, Here prove who hest can... | |
| William Hone - Great Britain - 1838 - 890 pages
...the votaries of Dulness diving and sporting in Fleet-ditch, which he then called The king of dykes I than whom no sluice of mud With deeper sable blots the silver flood. " I recollect," says Pennant, " the present noble approach to Blackfriars-bridge, the well-built opening... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 pages
...unsufferablc, as wantThis labour past, by Bridewell all descend, (As morning prayer, and flagellation end)3 ' voice, Andrsemon's valiant son, Who ruled where...white rocks arise, And Plcuron's chalky cliffs embla 4 ! than whom no sluice of mud With deeper sable blots the silver flood. " Here strip, my children... | |
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