I am afraid that the stale jest on our sober citizens gave rise to so many horns in the public streets ; and the number of castles floating with the wind, was probably designed as a ridicule on those erected by soaring projectors. Tumble-down Dick, in... The British Essayists;: Adventurer - Page 58by Alexander Chalmers - 1808Full view - About this book
| 1803 - 254 pages
...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... | |
| 1823 - 324 pages
...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... | |
| British essayists - 1823 - 686 pages
...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... | |
| 1823 - 304 pages
...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... | |
| Jacob Larwood, John Camden Hotten - 1866 - 616 pages
...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... | |
| 1871 - 542 pages
...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... | |
| 1871 - 546 pages
...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... | |
| Edward Walford - 1884 - 628 pages
...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... | |
| 1898 - 418 pages
...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... | |
| 1882 - 708 pages
...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... | |
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