 | Alexander Pope, George Croly - 1835 - 312 pages
...pass'd, by Bridewell all descend, As morning prayer and flagellation end, 270 To where Fleet-ditch, with disemboguing streams, Rolls the large tribute...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,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - 320 pages
...pass'd, by Bridewell all descend, As morning prayer and flagellation end, 270 To where Fleet-ditch, with disemboguing streams, Rolls the large tribute...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,... | |
 | 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
...Hungerford 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
...labour past, by Bridewell all descend, (As morning prayer, and flagellation end)3 To where Fleet-ditch valiant son, Who ruled where Calydon's 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... | |
 | Charles Mackay - England, Southern - 1840 - 426 pages
...its course through London, as something too offensive to be seen. Pope in his Dunciad has celebrated it in the following lines. Fleet Ditch with disemboguing...tribute of dead dogs to Thames. The king of dykes I than whom no sluice of mud With deeper sable blots the silver flood. At the time when Pope wrote,... | |
 | Charles Knight - London (England) - 1841 - 918 pages
...notorious offender in particular had the impudence to summon the heroes of his ' Dunciad' to " —Where Fleet Ditch, with disemboguing streams, Rolls the large tribute of dead dogs to Thames,"— with the invitation— " Here strip, my children ; hero at once leap in, And prove who best can dash... | |
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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. 
