...a hidden meaning, satirizing the follies of the people, or tonveying instruction to the passer-by. I am afraid that the stale jest on our sober citizens...Tumble-down Dick in the borough of Southwark, is a fine moial on the instability of greatness and the consequences of ambition : but there is a most ill-natured...

...reputation pro bono publico,' should be set up wherever three pennyworth of warm rum is to be sold. "I have been used to consider several signs, for the frequency...the consequences of ambition ; but there is a most ill natured sarcasm against the fair sex, exhibited on a sign in Broad St. Giles's, of a headless female...

...a hidden meaning, satirizing the follies of the people, or conveying instruction to the passer-by. I am afraid that the stale jest on our sober citizens...a ridicule on those erected by soaring projectors. Tumble-down-Dick, in the Borough of Southwark, is a fine moral on the instability of greatness and...

...sober citizens gave rise to so many horns in the public streets ; and the number of castles lloating with the wind, was probably designed as a ridicule...the consequences of ambition ; but there is a most ill natured sarcasm against the fair sex, exhibited on a sign in Broad St. Giles's, of a headless female...

...Dick in Brentford. " Tumbledown Dick, in the borough of Southwark," says the Adventurer, No. 9, 1752, "is a fine moral on the instability of greatness, and the consequences of ambition." As such it was set np ia derision of Richard Cromwell, the allusion to his fall from power. or "tumble...

...gin-shop, and KING CHARLES inform us of a skittle-ground ? " The writer remarks that " TUMBLE DOWN DICK, in the borough of Southwark, is a fine moral on the instability of greatness and the consequence of ambition ; but there is a most Ul-natured sarcasm against the fair sex exhibited on...

...gin-shop, and K.ING CHARLES inform us of a skittle-ground ? " The writer remarks that " TUMBLE DOWN DICK, in the borough of Southwark, is a fine moral on the instability of greatness and the consequence of ambition ; but there is a most ill-natured sarcasm against the fair sex exhibited on...

...to some little speculation as to its meaning. "Tumble-down Dick," says the Advertiser, No. 9, 1752, "is a fine moral on the instability of greatness and the consequences of ambition." As such, it was set up in derision of Richard Cromwell, the allusion to his fall from power, or " tumble...

...situated to the eastward, is another ancient building. " Tumbledown Dick" to quote the Advertiser* "is fine moral on the instability of greatness, and the consequences of ambition." Mr. Walford supposes it to have been a sign set up in derision of Richard Cromwell, allusion to his...

...Woodbridge. The Adventurer, No. 9, 1752, says: — " Tumbledown Dick, in the borough of Southwarb, is a fine moral on the instability of greatness and the consequences of ambition." As such it was set up in derision of Richard Cromwell. EVERARD HOME COLEMAN. 71, Brecknock Road. I...