 | Thomas Whitcombe Greene - English language - 1876 - 340 pages
...very forcibly of the hailstorm of Sidmouth, and of the conduct of the excellent Mrs. Partingtou on the occasion. In the winter of 1824 there set in a great...this sublime and terrible storm Dame Partington, who lived upon the beach, was seen at the door of her house with mop and pattens, trundling her mop, squeezing... | |
 | James Routledge - Electronic books - 1876 - 650 pages
...the Lords to stop the progress of reform, reminds me very forcibly of the great storm of Sidmouth, and of the conduct of the excellent Mrs. Partington...the tide rose to an incredible height — the waves rusher! in upon the houses, and everything was threatened with destruction. In the midst of this sublime... | |
 | Henry Major - 1876 - 784 pages
...of the Lords to stop the progress of reform reminds me very forcibly of the great storm of Sidmouth, and of the conduct of the excellent Mrs. Partington on that occasion. In the winter of 1824, there aet in a great flood npon that town ; the tide rose to an incredible height, the waves rushed in upon... | |
 | Harriet Martineau - Great Britain - 1877 - 576 pages
...of the Lords to stop the progress of reform reminds me very forcibly of the great storm of Sidmouth, and of the conduct of the excellent Mrs. Partington...this sublime and terrible storm, Dame Partington, who lived upon the beach, was seen at the door of her house with mop and pattens, trundling her mop, squeezing... | |
 | Harriet Martineau - Great Britain - 1877 - 564 pages
...of the Lords to stop the progress of reform reminds me very forcibly of the great storm of Sidmouth, and of the conduct of the excellent Mrs. Partington...this sublime and terrible storm, Dame Partington, who lived upon the beach, was seen at the door of her house with mop and pattens, trundling her mop, squeezing... | |
 | Robert Cochrane (miscellaneous writer) - 1877 - 558 pages
...of the Lords to stop the progress of reform reminds me very forcibly of the great storm of Sidmouth, he deputies of deputies to some members of this House...prey upon them — men promoted to the highest seats wares rushed in upon the houses, and everything was threatened with destruction ! In the midst of this... | |
 | Robert Cochrane - Orators - 1877 - 560 pages
...of the Lords to stop the progress of reform reminds me very forcibly of the great storm of Sidmouth, xpressive of its pre-eminent dignity. There is nothing npon that town — the tide rose to an incredible height— the waves rushed in upon the houses, and... | |
 | James De Mille - English language - 1878 - 618 pages
...of the Lords to stop the progress of reform reminds me very forcibly of the great storm of Sidmouth, and of the conduct of the excellent Mrs. Partington...this sublime and terrible storm, Dame Partington, who lived upon the beach, was seen at the door of her house, with mop and pattens, trundling her mop, squeezing... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1878 - 522 pages
...entered into human imagination. Their resistance reminded him, he said, of the great storm of Sidmouth, and of the conduct of the excellent Mrs. Partington...this sublime and terrible storm, Dame Partington, who lived upon the beach, was seen at the door of her house with mop and pattens, trundling her mop, squeezing... | |
 | George Hill - Elections - 1879 - 274 pages
...of the Lords to stop the progress of reform reminds me very forcibly of the great storm of Sidmouth, and of the conduct of the excellent Mrs. Partington...this sublime and terrible storm, Dame Partington, who lived upon the beach, was seen at the door of her house with mop and pattens, trundling her mop, squeezing... | |
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Sidmouth and of the conduct of the excellent Mrs. Partington on that occasion. In the winter of 1824 there set in a great flood upon that town; the tide rose to an incredible height; the waves rushed in upon the houses; and everything was threatened with... 
