 ... himself was obliged to sit in the window. While they were conversing, some one gently rapped at the door, and being desired to come in, a poor ragged little girl, of very decent behaviour, entered, who, dropping a courtesy, said, " My Mamma sends...  The Dublin university magazine - Page 326by University magazine - 1848Full view - About this book
 | Serial publications - 1837 - 536 pages
...in, a poor ragged little girl of very decent behaviour entered, who, dropping a courtesy, said,—My mamma sends her compliments, and begs the favour of you to lend her a chamber-pot full of coals.' " p. 171. The same accomplished and amiable gentleman conducted Dr. Johnson in his first visit to Goldsmith,... | |
 | 1836 - 564 pages
...door, and on being desired to come in, a poor ragged little girl of very decent behaviour entered, who, dropping a courtesy, said, " My mamma sends her compliments,...favour of you to lend her a chamber-pot full of coals." ' — Life, vol. ip 325, Air. Prior has given some further particulars of Green-Arbour Court from a... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Medicine in literature - 1839 - 360 pages
...in, a poor ragged little girl of a very becoming demeanour entered the room, and dropping a curtsey said, " My mamma sends her compliments, and begs the...favour of you to lend her a chamber-pot full of coals." ' ^This was the crisis of Goldsmith's life. From this humble and almost 23 heart-breaking situation,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith (the Poet.) - 1839 - 358 pages
...in, a poor ragged little girl of a very becoming demeanour entered the room, and dropping a curtsey said, " My mamma sends her compliments, and begs the...favour of you to lend her a chamber-pot full of coals." * This was the crisis of Goldsmith's life. From Uiis humble and almost 23 heart-breaking situation,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English literature - 1839 - 550 pages
...becoming demeanour, entered the room, and dropping a courtesy said, ' my mamma sends her compliment-;, be shown to my friends as a piece of virtu ; Ал in some Ir coalsT " Our author's labours for the booksellers, though for some time unproductive of general literary... | |
 | 1848 - 640 pages
...entered the room, and, dropping a courtesy, said, ' My mamma sends her compliments, and begs the favor of you to lend her a chamber-pot full of coals.' "...relation of the woman with whom Goldsmith lodged in Green-Arbor-conrt ; that at the age of seven or eight years she frequently went thither, one of the... | |
 | Literature - 1848 - 634 pages
...courtesy, said, ' My mamtna sends her compliments, and begs the favor of you to lend her a chamber-pot lull of coals.' " Other recollections of this period of...relation of the woman with whom Goldsmith lodged in Green-Arbor-court ; that at the age of seven or eight years she frequently went thither, one of the... | |
 | People - 1845 - 348 pages
...desired to come in, a poor ragged little girl of very decent behaviour entered, who dropping a curtsey, said ' My mamma sends her compliments, and begs the...to lend her a chamber-pot full of coals.' " Other accounts correspond with the Bishop's ; yet neither poverty nor hopelessness could breed in him a feeling... | |
 | John Thomas Smith - Literary landmarks - 1846 - 484 pages
...to come in, a poor ragged little girl, of very decent behaviour, entered, who, dropping a curtsey, said, ' My mamma sends her compliments, and begs the...favour of you to lend her a chamber-pot full of coals.' " The very house is still standing, the last in the alley, looking on to a dangerous descent, into... | |
 | John Forster - Authors, English - 1848 - 734 pages
...girl, of a very becoming demeanour, ' entered the room, and dropping a curtsey, said, " My ' " mama sends her compliments, and begs the favour of ' " you to lend her a chamberpot full of coals." ' If the February number of the Critical Review lay by the reverend, startled, and long-descended visitor,... | |
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