 ... 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
 | John Forster - 1848 - 740 pages
...little 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,... | |
 | John Thomas Smith - City dwellers - 1849 - 472 pages
...to come in, a poor ragged little girl, of very decent behaviour, entered, who, dropping a courtsey, 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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1852 - 674 pages
...the door, and, being desired to come in, a poor, ragged little girl, of a very becoming demeanour, entered the room, and, dropping a courtesy, said,...favour of you to lend her a chamber-pot full of coals.' * We are reminded in this anecdote of Goldsmith's picture of the lodgings of Beau Tibbg. and of the... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1853 - 1254 pages
...desired to come in, a poor ragged little girl of very decent behaviour entered, who dropping a curtesy, 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... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1854 - 568 pages
...conversation was proceeding, a ragged little girl appeared at the door, and, dropping a curtsy to Goldsmith, said, ' My mamma sends her compliments, and begs the...favour of you to lend her a chamber-pot full of coals.' A volume of description would not convey a more vivid impression of the society of ' Green Arbour Court... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1854 - 568 pages
...conversation was proceeding, a ragged little girl appeared at the door, and, dropping a curtsy to Goldsmith, said, ' My mamma sends her compliments, and begs the...favour of you to lend her a chamber-pot full of coals.' A volume of description would not convey a more vivid impression of the society of 'Green Arbour Court'... | |
 | John Forster - 1855 - 528 pages
...ragged little girl of very ' ' decent behaviour, entered, who, dropping a curtsie, said, ' My ' ' ' mama sends her compliments, and begs the favour of you to " ' lend her a chamber-pot full of coals.' " If the February number of the Critical Review lay near the reverend, startled, and long-descended... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1858 - 336 pages
...come in, a poor, ragged little girl, of a very becoming demeanour, entered the room, and, drop, ping a courtesy, said, ' My mamma sends her compliments,...favour of you to lend her a chamber-pot full of coals.' " We are reminded in this anecdote of Goldsmith's picture of the lodgings of Beau Tibbs, and of the... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1904 - 872 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...favour of you to lend her a chamber-pot full of coals." ' It was in this tenement lodging that Goldsmith wrote his delightful essays for 'The Bee.' Sometimes... | |
 | John Thomas Smith - Literary landmarks - 1861 - 470 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... | |
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