 ... 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
 | Joseph Fitzgerald Molloy - Actors - 1897 - 362 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.' " It was long before Goldsmith was to enjoy the society of the polite and learned ; but meanwhile,... | |
 | Austin Dobson - 1899 - 296 pages
...desired 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.' " l The visitor here mentioned so reticently was Percy himself, not yet Bishop of Dromore, but only... | |
 | John Forster - Authors, Irish - 1903 - 482 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.' " If the February number of the Critical Review lay near the reverend, startled, and long-descended... | |
 | Richard Ashe King - Authors, English - 1910 - 370 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...of you to lend her a chamber-pot full of coals.'" 7 The child's coal-measure and the bishop's measure of " the splendour of Dr Goldsmith's genius" seem... | |
 | Oswald Doughty - English poetry - 1922 - 492 pages
...desired to come in, a poor ragged little 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 first interest which brought these two men, Percy and Goldsmith, together was no doubt their... | |
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