...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...

...is immortalised in perhaps the most polished satire in the English language. " To when - Fleet ditch with disemboguing streams, Rolls the large tribute...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...

...Stairs, are imitated from Virgil, £a. vii. on the sounding the horn of Alecto : To where Fleet Ditch, with disemboguing streams, Rolls the large tribute...Thames ; The king of dykes ! than whom no sluice of mud 278 With deeper sable blots the silver flood. ' Here strip, my children ! here at once leap in, Here...

...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...

...Tim labour past, by Bridewell all descend (As morning-prayers and flagellation end,) 276 To 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 sable blots the silver flood. * Here strip,...

...court, and the difficulty of getting out, is allegorized. (As morning prayer, and flagellation 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 deeper sable blots the silver flood....

...the votaries of Dulness in the " Dunciad," celebrates it iu the following lines : — " Fleet Ditch with disemboguing streams, Rolls the large tribute...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...

...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,...

...(As morning prayer and flagellation end) To where Fleet Ditch with disemboguing streams Uo.li.-i its large tribute of dead dogs to Thames : The king of...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...

...Stairs, are imitated from Virgil, Mn. vii. on the sounding the horn of Alecto: To where Fleet Ditch, with disemboguing streams, Rolls the large tribute...Thames ; The king of dykes ! than whom no sluice of mud27* With deeper sable blots the silver flood. ' Here strip, my children ! here at once leap in ;...