 | John Hollingshead - London - 1862 - 272 pages
...To where Fleet Ditch with disemboguing streams Uo.li.-i its large tribute of dead dogs to Thames : The king of dykes ! than whom no sluice of mud With deeper sable blots the silver flood." Swift, with his usual bold felicity in dealing with such subjects, has outdone all his brother poets... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1863 - 388 pages
...Rolls the large tribute of dead dogs to Thames ; The king of dykes ! than whom no sluice of mud27* 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,... | |
 | Henry Mayhew - Charities - 1864 - 596 pages
...Hungerford Wharf. The Fleet Ditch seems always to have had a /every character. It was described, in 172S, as "The king of dykes ! than whom no sluice of mud With deeper sable blots the «¡her flood—" ine silver flood being, in Queen Anne's and the First George's days, the London Thames.... | |
 | 1874 - 968 pages
...— " Where Fleet Ditch, with disemboguing stream?, Rolls the large tribute of dead dogs to Thamea ; The King of Dykes ! than whom no sluice of mud With deeper sable blots the silver flood." At the early period of which I write, it is, comparatively speaking, clear. Bright fish cleave its... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1867 - 626 pages
...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...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 ; * Sir Gilbert Heatheote,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1867 - 520 pages
...end) 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. 1 Webster was the writer of a newspaper called the Weekly Miscellany ; Whitfield, the celebrated Rev.... | |
 | John Morley - Authors, English - 1894 - 630 pages
...descends " 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 biota the silver flood. — Here strip, my children, here at once leap in ; Here prove who best can... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - Authors, English - 1898 - 234 pages
...descends " 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...here at once leap in •, Here prove who best can dasli through thick and thin, And who the most in love of dirt excel." And, certainly by the poet's... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - Poets, English - 1899 - 236 pages
...descends " 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...in; Here prove who best can dash through thick and thin, And who the most in love of dirt excel." And, certainly by the poet's account, they all love... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1899 - 228 pages
...prize. The Goddess of Dulness has brought all her votaries to the Fleet Ditch and bade them leap in. " Here strip, my children ! here at once leap in, Here prove who best can dash thro' thick and thin, And who the most in love of dirt excel, Or dark dexterity of groping well. Who... | |
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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. 
