...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 strip, my children ! here at once leap in ; Here prove who best can dash through...

...leap in, Here prove who heat can dash through thick and thin ; And who the most in love of dirt excel, Or dark dexterity of groping well. Who flings most filth, and wide pollutes around Tl,e streams, he his the Weekly Journals hound : 280 A pig of lead to him who dives the hest ; A peek...

...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...

...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...

...atheists, yet education lias made an invincible impression on them in behalf of the sacred writings. But i The king of dykes ! than whom no sluice of mud With...in, Here prove who best can dash through thick and thin* REMARKS. a popish rhymester has been brought up with a contempt for those sacred writings ; now...

...Fleet-ditch, with disemboguing streams, Rolls the large tribute of dead dogs to Thames: Great King of dykes J than whom no sluice of mud With deeper sable blots...in; Here prove who best can dash through thick and thin, And who'the most in love of dirt excel, Or dark dexterity of groping well. Who flings most filth,...

...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.'...

...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.'...

...the ocean, to plunge them, one after another, into the dirt of Fleet-ditch :— " The king of dikes ! than whom no sluice of mud With deeper sable blots the silver flood." * * * " Next Smodley div'd: slow circles dimpled o'er The quaking mud, that clos'd and op'a no more."...

...with a roaring sound The rising rivers float the nether ground. Dryden'i Virgil. Tbc king of dyke» ! than whom no sluice of mud With deeper sable blots the silver flood. Pope's Dunciad. DIKE denotes also a ditch or drain, made for the passage of waters. The word seems...