...SUNDAY PRESS. " This labour past, by Bridewell all descend, (As morning-prayer and flagellation end,) To where Fleet-ditch, with disemboguing streams, Rolls the large tribute of dead dogs to Thames: Great King of dykes J than whom no sluice of mud With deeper sable blots the silver flood. ' Here strip,...

...entirely ; * acknowledging that he could not make sense of the passage as it now stands, and inti' The king of dykes, than whom no sluice of mud ' With deeper sable blots the silver flood.' ' Next Smedley div'd : slow circles dimpled o'er, ' The quaking mud, that clos'd and op'd no more.'...

...the ocean, to plunge them, one after another, into the dirt of Fleet-ditch :— " The king of dikes ! than whom no sluice of mud With deeper sable blots the silver flood." * * * " Next Smodley div'd: slow circles dimpled o'er The quaking mud, that clos'd and op'a no more."...

...with a roaring sound The rising rivers float the nether ground. Dryden'i Virgil. Tbc king of dyke» ! than whom no sluice of mud With deeper sable blots the silver flood. Pope's Dunciad. DIKE denotes also a ditch or drain, made for the passage of waters. The word seems...

...ТЫ« manner This labour past, by Bridewell all descend (Aa morning-prayer« and flagellation end,) 27O ble hope, with double pain, Tears up the shore, and...those of Troa bold Diomed succeeds; Close on Eumelus' Here strip, my children, here at once leap in. Here prove who beet can dash through thick ала thin...

...FLEET MARKET « By Bridewell all descend (As morning prayer and flagellation end) To where FLEET DITCH, with disemboguing streams Rolls the large tribute...sluice of mud, With deeper sable blots the silver Hood'" 300 [We copy the following from that highly amusing weekly journal The Liberal^] THE lines which...

...descend' (As morning prayer and flagellation end) To where FLEET DITCH, with disemboguing streams. Holls the large tribute of dead dogs to Thames;. The king...sluice of mud, With deeper sable blots the silver iinwl." [We copy the following from that highly amusing weekly journal The Liberal'.} Tax lines which...

...Dunciad\o its filthy stream : — " By Bridewell all descend, As murning prayer and flagellation tnd, To where Fleet-ditch, with disemboguing streams, Rolls...tribute of dead dogs to Thames ; The king of dykes ! Thou whom no sluice of mud With deeper sable blots the sable flood; 'Here strip my children, 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 blots the silver flood." — Pope. This phraseology I have already examined. In answer to Mr. Baker's reasons for condemning...

...descend, (As morning prayers, and flagellation end,)* To where Fleet-ditch with disemboguing streami*' Rolls the large tribute of dead dogs to Thames, The...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 through thick and ihin,...