 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1832 - 644 pagina’s
...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 destruction. In the midst of this sublime and... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1832 - 650 pagina’s
...of the excellent Mrs. Partington on that occasion. In the winter of 1824, there set in a great fluod upon that town, the tide rose to an incredible height, the waves rushed in upon the houses, and everything was threatened with destruction. In the midst of this sublime and... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1840 - 424 pagina’s
...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...rose to an incredible height — the waves rushed in upon the houses, and every thing was threatened with destruction. In the midst of this sublime and... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1844 - 388 pagina’s
...Sidmouth, and of the eondnct of the excellent Mrs. Partington on that occasion. In the winter of 1824, there set in a great flood upon that town — the...rose to an incredible height — the waves rushed in upon the hoo«es, and every thing was threatened with destruction. In the midst of this sublime... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1885 - 530 pagina’s
...Sidnouth, and of the conduct of Ihe excellent Mrs. Partington on that occasion. In the winter of 1824 there set in a great flood upon that town — the...rose to an incredible height — the waves rushed in upon the houses, and everything was threatened with destruction. In the midst of this sublime and... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1845 - 496 pagina’s
...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...rose to an incredible height — the waves rushed in upon the houses, and every thing was threatened with destruction. In the midst of this sublime and... | |
 | 1874 - 714 pagina’s
...excellent Mrs. Partington on that occasion. In the winter of 1824, there set in a great flood of the town. The tide rose to an incredible height, the waves...everything was threatened with destruction. In the midst of this sublime and terrible storm, Dame Partington, who lived upon the beach, was seen at the... | |
 | 1851 - 554 pagina’s
...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...rose to an incredible height — the waves rushed in upon the houses, and everything was threatened with destruction. In the midst of this sublime and... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1851 - 780 pagina’s
...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...rose to an incredible height — the waves rushed in upon the houses — and everything was threatened with destruction. In the midst of this sublime... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1851 - 768 pagina’s
...Sidmouth, and of the conduct of the excellent Mrs. Partington on that oecasion. In the winter of 1824 there set in a great flood upon that town — the tide rose to an ineredible hcight — the waves rushed in upon the houses — and everything was threatened with destruction.... | |
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I do not mean to be disrespectful ; but the attempt 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... 
