 | Charles Knight - Industrial arts - 1856 - 554 pages
...This was the polluted stream that in time came to be known as Fleet Ditch, which Pope described as "The king of dykes, than whom no sluice of mud With deeper sable biota the silver flood." Fleet Ditch became such a nuisance that it was partly filled up by act of... | |
 | Charles Knight - Industrial arts - 1856 - 592 pages
...This was the polluted stream that in time came to be known as Fleet Ditch, which Pope described as "The king of dykes, than whom no sluice of mud With deeper sable biota the silver flood." Fleet Ditch became such a nuisance that it was partly filled up by act of... | |
 | Public health - 1857 - 536 pages
..." To when - 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...flood. Here strip, my children ! here at once leap in, And prove who best can dash thro' thick and thin." DUNCIAD, b. ii. Our space will not permit us to... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1859 - 504 pages
...Fleet-ditch with disemboguing streams Rolls the large tribute of dead dogs to Thames, The king of dykes 4 ! v, thro* thick and thin, And who the most in love of dirt excel, Or dark dexterity of groping well 5.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1859 - 384 pages
...Rolls the large tribute of dead dogs to Thames ; The king of dykes ! than whom no sluice of mud 278 With deeper sable blots the silver flood. ' Here strip,...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,... | |
 | Charles Knight - Capitalism - 1859 - 526 pages
...This was the polluted stream that in time came to be known as Fleet Ditch, which Pope .described as " The king of dykes, than whom no sluice of mud With deeper s;ible blots the silver flood." Fleet Ditch became such a nuisance that it was partly filled up by... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1860 - 542 pages
...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...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,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1860 - 632 pages
...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...blots the silver flood. * Here strip, my children, h« re at once leap in, Here prove who best cnn dash through thick and thin J And who the most in love... | |
 | John Thomas Smith - Literary landmarks - 1861 - 470 pages
...lines : — " 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." 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,... | |
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Here strip, my children! here at once leap 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. 
