 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | John Timbs - Curiosities and wonders - 1855 - 818 pages
...relapsed into a common eewer. Gay sings of its " muddy current;" and Pope pointa " To where Fleet ditch, with disemboguing streams, Rolls the large tribute...dead dogs to Thames; The king of dykes, than whom no slime of mud With deeper sable blots the silver flood."— The Duaciad. Swift thus revels in its delicia;,... | |
 | 1855 - 802 pages
...his quizzing style, is fond of introducing the unfortunate wits of the Dunciad, at the brink, — " Where Fleet-ditch with disemboguing streams, Rolls the large tribute of dead dogs to Thames.'' We thought the kindred, but better fed geniuses of our own press had ceased to resort to such scenes... | |
 | Aristotle - Aesthetics - 1927 - 528 pages
...* ка1 P : í) supra versum add. ra. rec. P. ' Set P. " Scr. Inc. C/. Pope's mock-heroic lines, " To where Fleet-ditch with disemboguing streams, Rolls the large tribute of dead dogs to Thames," Dunciad, book ii. 378 into the sea," " as though he were writing about the cataracts of the Nile or... | |
 | William Henry Irving - Literary Criticism - 1928 - 508 pages
...the building of Blackfriars Bridge. The most vigorous description of it is in the Dunciad (1728) : a Fleet-Ditch with disemboguing streams Rolls the large...sluice of mud With deeper sable blots the silver flood. Swift refers to it in the "City Shower" (i7io).3 As the greatest of "common shores," it figures largely... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1728 - 80 pages
...all defcend, (As morning pray'r and flagellation end.) To where Fleetdttch with difemboguing ftreams Rolls the large tribute of dead dogs to Thames, The King of Dykes ! than whom, no fluice of mud 250 With deeper fable blots the filver flood. ' Here ftrip my children ! here at once... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poetry - 1963 - 884 pages
...so long. This labour past, by Bridewell all descend, (As morning pray'r, and flagellation end) 270 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, 275 Here prove who best can dash thro' thick and thin,... | |
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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. 
