 ... 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 - English literature - 1801 - 424 pages
...ragged little girl of very decent behaviour, entered, who, dropping a curtfie, faid, " My mamma " fends her compliments, and begs the favour of " you to lend her a chamber-pot full of coals." He afterwards removed to very decent lodgings in Wine-office-court, Fleet-flreet, where he wrote his... | |
 | Edward Pugh - 1806 - 688 pages
...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...of you to lend her a chamber-pot full of coals."* The abode of genius, though" humble, ^s always interesting, and the contemplation of it is calculated... | |
 | 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 - 1836 - 568 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. Mr. Prior has given some further particulars of Green- Arbour Court from a... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1812 - 428 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...of " you to lend her a chamber-pot full of coals." He afterwards removed to very decent lodgings in Wine-office-court, Fleet-street, where he wrote his... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1825 - 440 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, '...of you to lend her a chamber-pot full of coals.'» Our author's labours for the booksellers, though for some time unproductive of general literary fame,... | |
 | Sir James Prior - Authors - 1837 - 558 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 chamberpot full of coals." To the few notices gleaned of him while in these lodgings, accident has enabled the writer to make... | |
 | Sir James Prior - Authors - 1837 - 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 chamberpot full of coals." To the few notices gleaned of him while in these lodgings, accident has enabled the writer to make... | |
 | Sir James Prior - Authors - 1837 - 550 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...favour of you to lend her a chamber-pot full of coals." To the few notices gleaned of him while in these lodgings, accident has enabled the writer to make... | |
 | sir James Prior - English literature - 1837 - 550 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...favour of you to lend her a chamber-pot full of coals." To the few notices gleaned of him while in these lodgings, accident has enabled the writer to make... | |
 | Serial publications - 1837 - 552 pages
...in, a paor 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,... | |
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