 | John Thomas Smith - City dwellers - 1849 - 472 pages
...the votaries of Dulness in the " Dunciad," celebrates it in the following lines: — " Fleet Ditch with disemboguing streams, Rolls the large tribute...of mud With deeper sable blots the silver flood." In 1733, it having been determined to erect a mansion for the official residence of the lord mayor... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1850 - 510 pages
...This manner This labour past, by Bridewell all descend (As morning-prayers and flagellation cud,) 270 To where Fleet-ditch with disemboguing streams Rolls...dykes ! than whom no sluice of mud With deeper sable blols the silver flood. 4 Here strip, my children, here at once leap in, Here prove who best can dash... | |
 | John Wesley Thomas - 1850 - 156 pages
...led the attack of the crusaders on Constantinople in person, and took the city. Note cc, st. 106. " The king of dykes, than whom no sluice of mud, With deeper sable blots the silver flood." . Dunciad. " As a RELIGIOUS JOURNAL, it will discuss the Religious question of the day in the xpirit... | |
 | Edward Litt L. Blanchard - Berkshire (England) - 1849 - 152 pages
...Ponds, which formed the source of the Meet — that famous river, which Pope immortalized as — " The king of dykes, than whom no sluice of mud With deeper sable hlots the silver flood." For many centuries, however, the water was as pure as its origin betokened.... | |
 | Edward Bascome - 1851 - 270 pages
...Bridewell all descend (As morning prayer and flagellation end) To where Fleet ditch, with disembouging streams, Rolls the large tribute of dead dogs to Thames,...With deeper sable blots the silver flood : ' Here trip, my children ! here at once leap in, Here prove who best can dash through thick and thin ; And... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1851 - 384 pages
...Triviae longe lacus, audiit amnis Sulphurea Nar albus aqua fontesque Velini,' &c. To where Fleet Ditch, with disemboguing streams, Rolls the large tribute...Thames ; The king of dykes ! than whom no sluice of mud w With deeper sable blots the silver flood. ' Here strip, my children ! here at once leap in, Here... | |
 | Edward Bascome - Epidemics - 1851 - 268 pages
...where Fleet ditch, with disembouging streams, Rolls the large tribute of dead dogs to Thames, The ting of dykes ! than whom no sluice of mud With deeper sable blots the silver flood : ' Here trip, my children ! here at once leap in, Here prove who best can dash through thick and thin ; And... | |
 | Norman Chevers - Public health - 1852 - 396 pages
...turbid flow. We have seen how early the channel of the river of Wells began to convey a stream, — " than whom no sluice of mud With deeper sable blots the silver flood." And a curious quotation recently given in Notes and Queries, from a sermon preached at Paul's Cross... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1853 - 336 pages
...long. This labour past, by Bridewell all descend, , (As morning prayer, and flagellation end)47 270 To where Fleet-ditch with disemboguing streams Rolls...Thames, The king of dykes! than whom no sluice of With deeper sable blots the silver flood. "Here strip, my children! here at once leap in, 275 Here... | |
 | Alexander Crombie - English language - 1853 - 324 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 hlots the silver flood." — Pope. This phraseology I have already examined. In answer to Mr. Baker's... | |
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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 mud With deeper sable blots the silver flood. 
