| Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - English literature - 1824 - 408 pages
...manner of argumentation is usual with Mr. Dennis; he has employed the same against Sir Richard himself, To where Fleet-ditch, with disemboguing streams, Rolls...sluice of mud With deeper sable blots the silver flood. " Here strip, my children! here at once leap in, Here prove who best can dash thro' thick and thin,... | |
| Sholto Percy, Reuben Percy - London (England) - 1824 - 380 pages
...children. " By Bridewell all descend, (As morning prayer and flagellation end,) To where Fleet ditch, with disemboguing streams, Rolls the large tribute...of mud With deeper sable blots the silver flood." In 1734 and 1737, this ditch had been arched over as far as the obelisk at the commencement of the... | |
| Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - English literature - 1824 - 412 pages
...employed the same against Sir Richard himself, To where Fleet-ditch, with disemboguing streams, Holls the large tribute of dead dogs to Thames ; The King...sluice of mud With deeper sable blots the silver flood. " Here strip, my children ! here at once leap in, Here prove who best can dash thro' thick and thin,... | |
| Sholto Percy, Reuben Percy - London (England) - 1824 - 380 pages
...flagellation end,) To where Fleet ditch, with disemboguing streams, Hulls the large tribute of dead degs to Thames; The king of Dykes! than whom no sluice of mud With deeper sable blots the silver flood." In 1734 and 1737, this ditch had been arched over as far as the obelisk at the commencement of the... | |
| Robert Mudie - London (England) - 1825 - 320 pages
...where Fleet-ditch, with disemboguing streams, Rolls the large tribute of dead dogs to Thames : Great king of dykes ! than whom no sluice of mud With deeper sable blots the silver flood. ' Here strip, my children ! here at once leap in ; Here prove who best can dash through thick and thin,... | |
| Robert Mudie - London (England) - 1825 - 320 pages
...SUNDAY PRESS. " This labour past, by Bridewell all descend, (As morning-prayer and flagellation end,) To where Fleet-ditch, with disemboguing streams, Rolls the large tribute of dead dogs to Thames : Great king of dykes ! than whom no sluice of mud With deeper sable blots the silvej flood. ' Here... | |
| William Hone - Almanacs, English - 1827 - 390 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 opening... | |
| William Hone - Almanacs, English - 1827 - 452 pages
...votaries of Dulness diving and spotting in Fleet-ditch, which he then called The king of dykes I thaa 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... | |
| Edmund Henry Barker - 1829 - 798 pages
...words entirely;* acknowledging that he could not make sense of the passage as it now stands, and inti' The king of dykes, than whom no sluice of mud ' With deeper sable blots the silver flood.' ' Next Smedley div'd : slow circles dimpled o'er, ' The quaking mud, that clos'd and op'd no more.'... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1828 - 228 pages
...11 l. TJ This labour past, by Bridewell all descend (As morning-prayers and flagellation end), 270 To where fleet-ditch with disemboguing streams Rolls the large tribute of dead dogs to Thames, REMARKS. can havi) no fiible, and no heroic poem: his narration is neither probable, delightful, nor... | |
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