...turbid flow. We have seen how early the channel of the river of Wells began to convey a stream, — " than whom no sluice of mud With deeper sable blots the silver flood." And a curious quotation recently given in Notes and Queries, from a sermon preached at Paul's Cross...

...past, by Bridewell all descend, (As morning prayer, and flagellation end)47 270 To where Fleet-ditch with disemboguing streams Rolls the large tribute...Thames, The king of dykes! than whom no sluice of mud48 With deeper sable blots the silver flood. " Here strip, my children ! here at once leap in, 275...

...past, by Bridewell all descend, , (As morning prayer, and flagellation end)47 270 To where Fleet-ditch with disemboguing streams Rolls the large tribute...Thames, The king of dykes! than whom no sluice of With deeper sable blots the silver flood. "Here strip, my children! here at once leap in, 275 Here...

...she knew," or " she knew whom to be dead." " Than whom, Satan except, none higher sat." — Milton. " The king of dykes, than whom no sluice of mud, With deeper sable hlots the silver flood." — Pope. This phraseology I have already examined. In answer to Mr. Baker's...

...again relapsed into a common sewer. Gay sings of its " muddy current ;" and Pope points; " To where Fleet ditch, with disemboguing streams, Rolls the...dead dogs to Thames; The king of dykes, than whom no slime of mud With deeper sable blots the silver flood."— Tki Dunciad. Swift thus revels in its delicitf,...

...style, is fond of introducing the unfortunate wits of the Dunciad, at the brink, — " Where Fleet-ditch with disemboguing streams, Rolls the large tribute of dead dogs to Thames.'' We thought the kindred, but better fed geniuses of our own press had ceased to resort to such scenes...

...Prick all their ears up, and forget to graze," a contest in diving succeeds — — " where Fleet-ditch with disemboguing streams Rolls the large tribute...of mud With deeper sable blots the silver flood." " Here strip, my children!" (exclaims the goddess), "here at once leap in, Here prove who best can...

...performance. Dulness, with her court descends To where Fleet Ditch with disemboguing streams Bolls the large tribute of dead dogs to Thames, The king...of mud With deeper sable blots the silver flood.— Here strip, my children, here at once leap in ; Here prove who best can dash through thick and thin,...

...labour past, by Bridewell all descend, (As morning pray'r 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. 'Here strip, my children ! here at once leap in, Here prove who best can dash thro' thick and thin,...

...Dunciad, written early in the eighteenth century, — To where Fleet Ditch with disemboguing stream Bolls the large tribute of dead dogs to Thames, The King of Dykes, than whom no slime of mud With deeper sable blots the silver flood. One hundred years later, conditions were still...