 | Alexander Pope - 1860 - 632 pages
...Tim labour past, by Bridewell all descend (As morning-prayers and flagellation end,) 276 To wliore Fleet-ditch with disemboguing streams Rolls the large tribute of dead dogs to Thames, The kin? of dykes ' than whom no sluice of mud With deeper sable blots the silver flood. * Here strip,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1860 - 542 pages
...that court, and the difficulty of getting out, is allegorized. (As morning prayer, and flagellation end) To where Fleet-ditch with disemboguing streams Rolls the large tribute of dead dogg to Thames, The king of dykes ! than whom no sluice of mud With deeper sable blots the silver flood.... | |
 | John Thomas Smith - Literary landmarks - 1861 - 470 pages
...the votaries of Dulness in the " Dunciad," celebrates it iu 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... | |
 | Henry Mayhew - 1861 - 580 pages
...Wharf. The Fleet Ditch seems always to have had a uwery character. It was described, in 1728, as " The king of dykes ! than whom no sluice of mud With deeper uble bloti the silver flood—" the ñlver flood being, in Queen Anne's and the First George's days,... | |
 | John Hollingshead - London - 1862 - 272 pages
...(As morning prayer and flagellation end) To where Fleet Ditch with disemboguing streams Uo.li.-i its large tribute of dead dogs to Thames : The king of...of mud With deeper sable blots the silver flood." Swift, with his usual bold felicity in dealing with such subjects, has outdone all his brother poets... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1863 - 388 pages
...Stairs, are imitated from Virgil, Mn. vii. on the sounding the horn of Alecto: To where Fleet Ditch, with disemboguing streams, Rolls the large tribute...Thames ; The king of dykes ! than whom no sluice of mud27* With deeper sable blots the silver flood. ' Here strip, my children ! here at once leap in ;... | |
 | Henry Mayhew - Charities - 1864 - 596 pages
...Hungerford Wharf. The Fleet Ditch seems always to have had a /every character. It was described, in 172S, as "The king of dykes ! than whom no sluice of mud With deeper sable blots the «¡her flood—" ine silver flood being, in Queen Anne's and the First George's days, the London Thames.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1866 - 386 pages
...Stairs, are imitated from Virgil, jEn. vii. on the sounding the horn of Alecto : To where Fleet Ditch, with disemboguing streams, Rolls the large tribute...Thames ; The king of dykes ! than whom no sluice of mud273 With deeper sable blots the silver flood. ' Here strip, my children ! here at once leap in,... | |
 | R. McWilliam - English literature - 1900 - 834 pages
...dishonours of his face. The bards and scribblers next compete, and the scene is moved further eastward — To where Fleet-ditch, with disemboguing streams, Rolls...blots the silver flood. ' Here strip, my children I here at once leap in, Here prove who best can dash thro' thick and thin, And who the most in love... | |
 | Caroline Alice White - Hampstead (London, England) - 1900 - 416 pages
...sufficiently disagreeable description of the desecrated river, and Pope, in the ' Dunciad,' asserts it ' The king of dykes, than whom no sluice of mud With deeper sable blots the silver flood.' It was the Creek that in modern times was called Fleet Ditch. It had its entrance immediately below... | |
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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. 
