 ... 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
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1872 - 524 pages
...at 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.' " It appears that in 1758 he obtained a medical appointment which might have proved exceedingly lucrative,... | |
 | John Forster - 1873 - 806 pages
...very "decent behaviour entered, who, "dropping a curtsey, said, 'My " 'mamma sends her compli" 'ments, and begs the favour of " 'you to lend her a chamber-pot '"full of coals.'"* * Percy Memoir, 60-1. "I have him now* > "in London," writes Campbell to the bishop in 1790 (Nichols's... | |
 | University magazine - 1876 - 828 pages
...conversation was interrupted by the entrance of a ragged little girl, who said, dropping a curtsey, " My mamma sends her compliments, and begs the favour of you to lend her a chamberpot full of coals." Poverty and want were old ac360 The Personality of Goldsmith. 361 quain tance» ; but in Green Arbour... | |
 | John Forster - Authors, Irish - 1877 - 468 pages
...come in, a poor ragged littki ». " girl of very decent behaviour entered, who, dropping a curtsey, " said, ' My mamma sends her compliments, and begs the..." ' you to lend her a chamber-pot full of coals.' " * Percy Memoir, 60-1. " I have him now in London," writes Campbell to tho bishop in 1790 (Nichols's... | |
 | John Forster - Authors, English - 1877 - 526 pages
..."decent behaviour, entered, who, dropping a curtsie, Baid, 'My '"mama sends her compliments, and bogs 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 visitor,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1879 - 266 pages
...poor, ragged little girl, of a very becoming demeanour, entered the room, and, dropping a courtesey, said, ' My mamma sends her compliments, and begs the...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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1885 - 538 pages
...they were in conversation, a little girl, of genteel appearance, came into the room, and curtsying, said, " My mamma sends her compliments, and begs the...favour of you to lend her a chamber-pot full of coals." 3 It was in this mean abode, in the midst of squalid poverty, that he completed his ' Enquiry,' which... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English wit and humor - 1885 - 572 pages
...poor 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'." 48) his blankets; vgl. Forster p. 1 9 f. : To one starving creature with five crying children, he gave... | |
 | Joseph Fitzgerald Molloy - Actresses - 1887 - 378 pages
...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 her compliments,...favour of you to lend her a chamber-pot full of coals." ' But it was long before Goldsmith was to enjoy the society of the polite and learned ; and, meanwhile,... | |
 | Austin Dobson - Authors, English - 1888 - 252 pages
...to come in, a poor little ragged girl of very decent behaviour, entered, who, dropping a curtsie,' said, ' My mamma sends her compliments, and begs the...favour of you to lend her a chamber-pot full of coals.' " The visitor here mentioned so reticently was Percy himself, not yet Bishop of Dromore, but only chaplain... | |
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