...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,...

...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,...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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,...

...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...