| Alexander Crombie - English language - 1809 - 456 pages
...she knew," or " she knew whom to " be dead." " Than whom, Satam except, none higher sat." Milton. " The king of dykes, than whom no sluice of mud, " With deeper sable blots the silver flood." Pope. This phraseology I have already examined. In answer to Mr. Baker's reasons for condemning the... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 546 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...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... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 536 pages
...thejr To where Fleet-ditch with disemboguing streams Rolls the largo tribute of dead dogs to Tlomes, "The king of dykes ! than whom no sluice of mud With deeper sable biota the silver Hood. " Here strip, my children ! here at once leap in. Here prove who best can dash... | |
| Stephen Jones, Charles Molloy Westmacott - English literature - 1812 - 382 pages
...study of the former of these classes — Pope's Dunciad of the latter, and from him their motto : " Here strip, my children ! here at once leap in ! Here prove who best can dash through thick and thin." After these "cold long-winded natives of the deep," others of more aerial mental posvers will... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1812 - 374 pages
...Now 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. 274. " Here strip, my children ! here at once leap in, Here prove who best can dash thro' thick and... | |
| Stephen Jones, Charles Molloy Westmacott - English literature - 1812 - 376 pages
...former of these classes — Pope's Dunclad of the latter^ and from him their motto : " Here strip, ray children ! here at once leap in ! Here prove who best can dash through thick and thin." After these ^'cold long-winded natives of the deep," others of more aerial mental powers will... | |
| Stephen Jones, Charles Molloy Westmacott - English literature - 1812 - 372 pages
...these classes — Pope's Duaciad ol' the latter, and from him their motto : " Here strip, my children 1 here at once leap in ! Here prove who best can dash through thick and thin." After these "cold long-winded natives of the deep," others of more aerial mental powers will... | |
| Edward Wedlake Brayley, James Norris Brewer, Joseph Nightingale - London (England) - 1814 - 936 pages
...end) To where FLEET DITCH, with dijemboguing stream!, 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." The part arched over at tliat period extended from Holborii Bridge to the commencement of the present... | |
| John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley - Architecture - 1814 - 932 pages
...DITCH, with disemboguing strtann, Rolls the large tribute of dead dogs to Thames ; The King of Dyke* ! than whom no sluice of mud, With deeper sable blots the silver flood." The part arched over at rtiat period extended from Holborn Bridge to the commencement of the present... | |
| England - 1845 - 808 pages
...streams Rolls the large tribute of dead dogs to Thames, The king of dykes ! than whom, no sluice of mnd 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 tilth,... | |
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